Another beautiful week in Florida. I was just thinking this morning how amazing it is to come out of the gym and hear seagulls. I really do love it here.
As I may have mentioned, Glenn and I have been having some minor health annoyances. He had an MRI this week due to some ongoing shoulder pain (he fell asleep in the machine, which apparently is unprecedented). I have also been seeing the chiropractor and apparently have a pinched nerve and some wayward discs in my neck, which has caused my thumb and index finger to go numb.
Additionally, I am having allergy tests done tomorrow. We'll see if I am allergic to alligators or what.
Still, all of this has not stopped us from continuing to explore.
Saturday, we took the dogs on an extremely hot walk around Davis Island. I kept dumping water on Deuce and Mojo because I was worried the heat was too much, but they did fine.
Davis Island is a cute little man-made island just over a bridge from downtown Tampa. They have a little airport and harbor, and lots of very nice homes. Lisha and Chad are considering moving here.
You can see it's quite lovely.
And you can see downtown from here.
That evening, while the dogs were peacefully sleeping, we headed to Clearwater Beach.
The Pier you see here is Pier 60. They have a sunset celebration here every night with acrobats and different performers. They also have a little market of junky stuff they sell on the pier - glowsticks, bad manatee figurines and homemade candles.
We went to the roof of the Pier 60 hotel, but didn't stay long enough to watch the sunset as it was a hot and shadeless location. Plus we were hungry.
Clearwater Beach is a lot more touristy than a number of other beaches we've been too. It's pretty impossible to not feel like you are on vacation when you are here.
Anyway, we ended up having a surprisingly good dinner of snow crab legs at a place called Cooters. (That's right, for those of you keeping track, we've eaten at a place called Crabby Bills, Sea Critters and now Cooters. There is apparently no limit to silly restaurant names.) The place had a Terrible Towel hanging from their ceiling, and lots of Steelers and Pens stuff, so Glenn felt right at home.
Afterwards, we walked along the Pier and got some lovely beach breezes.
We witnessed some drama as a ton of emergency vehicles and boats showed up, apparently to rescue a person(s) who was swimming (or failing to swim) way out on the ocean. We saw one girl picked up on a jet ski and returned to the beach, but then the search continued. We didn't hear what happened anywhere, so I'm just going to assume everyone got out okay.
Still, it was a lovely evening and a full moon.
Anyway, that's all the news from here. Hope you are all well and enjoying the end of your summer. It just keeps going here. ;-)
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