Anniversary Spectacular!

Hi Everyone -

It's been another great week here in Florida and we once again find ourselves with too much to blog about. So be patient, grab yourself a cool beverage, and read on...

I start way back on Wednesday of last week, when poor Mojo had to have some minor surgery to remove a couple of cysts.

Poor FrankenMo...all stitched up.

She had a rough day, but is doing much better now.

Thursday was the 17th...also known as our 21st Anniversary. Good grief! Time flies when you are having fun!

Anyone remember this?

So we didn't really have any plans for Thursday, but I made us some crab legs for dinner and we went to Shepard's Resort in Clearwater Beach.

The same day, 21 years later

They had a band playing and have their own little beach - I guess the place has been around for a long time.

Speaking of sunsets, at some point during the week, we had a nice one to watch right from our front porch.

We also found this guy on the front porch. Just hanging around.

Mr. TreeFrog

On Saturday, we hit the road in the morning and headed to John Chestnut Sr. Park in nearby Palm Harbor. For reasons that will soon become obvious, this is my new favorite park.

One of the things I had said when we set off on Saturday was that it had been a while since we'd seen an alligator.

So we took care of that.

This was the little one. Probably less than 2 feet long.

This was the bigger one - probably around 4 or 5 feet long.

Lizard in the Spanish Moss.

This was quite a pleasant surprise...

Oh, hello there!

So that gives you a pretty good sense of our gorgeous day at the park.

When we got home, the day had really heated up, so we decided to take a swim.

Deuce really seems to be enjoying swimming now. He jumps into the pool all by himself!

Hooray!

Saturday night, we had reservations at a waterfront restaurant called Oystercatchers. It is supposed to be a great place to watch the sunset, but sadly, it was cloudy and grey that night, so we didn't see it, but we still had a tasty dinner.

Also, we still got to see some wildlife on the water, like this very large and friendly Wood Stork.

The waitress treated us to a couple glasses of wine for our anniversary, and we took them down to sit by a bonfire on the water.

Another wonderful weekend with my sweetie. So that's it for today's blog post! Hope you enjoyed it. More to come next week!