March 31, 2011

WOW!!  March is gone!   Was a great month and had a lot of fun.  Spent St. Patty's day in Auburndale visiting friends Mike and Ceil Murphy.  Played golf and had a great corn beef and cabbage dinner at the club.  They showed us a new gator family on the golf course, ma ma with several babies, must have been at least 10 little ones, stay clear.


Villages friends, Jorgensen's, Meier's and Henseler's invited us to join them to a performance of the "Wisconsin Singers" at the Village theater. They were great. Closed the evening with dinner at Little Joes Italian.  Had great pizza.

Shari & Friend Donna

Visited Shari's good friend Donna Garrett in Mulberry, Fl,  Imperial Lake complex.  Went to dinner at her favorite place, Texas Cattle Company in Lakeland, always good.  Stayed over and enjoyed the complex's annual picnic on Sat.  Great food with live music.  The next day we played golf and enjoyed pizza dinner with one of Donna's acquaintance, a 97 year old gentlemen who still plays golf three times a week. Awesome!

Cardinal "Rumble"

Mega Yacht Boat Show

We then headed to daughter Lisa in Palm Beach Gardens for a second visit this winter.  Bill & Lisa happy to see us again.  They surprised us with tickets to a St, Louis Cardinal spring training game against the Washington Nationals.  It was a beautiful day and Bill arranged for box seats. Had a great stadium dog lunch.  Game was fun, but Cardinals lost.  However, after a wild pitch hitting a batter, a rumble followed with both dug outs on the field.  A little excitement!  The next day we treated them to tickets to the West Palm Beach International boat show!  Wow!  Mega yachts, some selling for over 24 Million Dollars.  Awesome!  Had a fun day looking and going through vendor booths.  Closing the day by Lisa treating us to a wonderful Mexican dinner.

Madoff Repo West Palm Beach

Shari West Palm Beach Trail

Next day Lisa had to work so we went over to West Palm Beach to walk a really nice trail along the Intercostal Waterway.  Beautiful day and gorgeous homes.  Walked past a Bernnie Madoff repo now being remodeled.  Got an opportunity to talk with a couple of workers.  Then took Shari down to "Worth Ave", the high rent shopping street of West Palm Beach.  She behaved herself!!

Worth Street

We then went up to the PGA Golf Training facility in Port St. Lucie to meet with grand daughter Mc Kenzie and dad Don.  Prearranged to drive them to Orlando to catch a ride back to Wisconsin with the Paul grandparents.  Had a great lunch, tour of the grounds, and a tour of the PGA Museum.  Really nice.  Mc Kenzie had a great camp with her professional coaches, and told she shot a very strong 72 par.  Wow!

Back to our RV park, we met with friends John & Glenda Callender, getting ready to head back home to Indiana.  So we booked a nice dinner at Harry's in Ocala.  Everyone happy with meal and service, so a nice send off.  Lot's of people in the park starting to pack up for trip north.  We are here till April 30th, but we did book a week in The Villages for their "Life Style Preview" program from 4/15-22.  So we will have a fun week in The Villages.

Last couple of days much needed rain here in Florida. Some weather severe.  So we took in a movie.  "The Lincoln Lawyer",  Was great and can recommend.