St. Petersburg Municipal Marina - 1/19/11 (day 2)

We spent the morning today doing a few chores and projects around the boat before our guests arrive later this afternoon. My brother-in-law's cousin, Mike and Marilyn called from Gulfport and unfortunately we couldn't find a time to get together with their commitments and our scheduled departure on Friday. We have really gotten either lazy or relaxed because we just don't get anything going much before 11 a.m. each day. While I did laundry (which is stored in the front state room) to make room for company, Ricki worked on a sewing project. Daughter Christine and the girls are supposed to get here for dinner around 5 p.m. and will be bringing her grandmother Betty, who we haven't seen for many years. We are really looking forward to seeing everyone. Of course I had to make a trip to the West Marine which was only a couple blocks away before they came.


We walked from the boat to Fresco's Waterfront Bistro at the edge of the marina. Betty spotted this red motocycle and we had to drag her inside so she wouldn't take a spin on it.

The restaurant overlooks the entire municipal marina which includes the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. The yacht club must be very big and affluent since the clubhouse occupies almost a complete block and is gorgeous. When we arrived at the restaurant for our reservation, we were given the choice of inside or outside dining but since it was becoming dusk and cooler, we opted for inside. We were the only folks inside when we sat down but before we were finished with dessert, the place was full.

Chrfistine and the girls took Betty back to Dade City after dinner and will spend the night there before coming back to the boat tomorrow. Her husband will join us tomorrow after his job responsibilities are finished in central Florida and we will stage one of their vehicles in Bradenton so they will have transportation back to the airport on Sunday for the flight back to snowy Pennsylvania. Tomorrow promises to be another sunny warm day in the mid 70's after the fog lifts. It really pains me to put those kind of remarks in the blog since many of you folks aren't enjoying this weather. Just in case you are unable to read between the lines .... life is great and we are certainly enjoying it!