My Parents' Visit

Hi Everyone!

This past Thursday through Sunday, my parents came to visit us in Safety Harbor. It was the first time we had seen them in nine months, and a good time was had by all.

After we gave them the tour of the house, and the barking stopped, we went to Safety Harbor for lunch, and then walked over to the pier.

First family selfie!

And we saw a bird eating a lizard.

We then walked into town, and after a required stop at Starbucks, took them to see the Baranhoff Tree.

Dad taking a picture of the tree. As you'll see, Glenn finds these kind of shots amusing. :-)

That night, we met with Chad and Lisha and Lisha's mom, Merrilyn, for dinner at a nice restaurant facing the bay called Oystercatchers.

Glenn and Dad went out to snap some pics of the sunset together.

Friday, we went to the Florida Botanical Gardens and to Heritage Village for a stroll. (Glenn doesn't have many shots of this, maybe because we'd been there before...I think he was slacking off.)

Afterwards, we went to Indian Rocks Beach for a spectacular pizza lunch at Slyce. Then we stopped by a local park to see the turtles. We saw giant soft-shelled turtles with pig noses and a big smiling snapping turtle that seemed to be attracted to my mom. And also these guys, just lounging in the sun.

We left the afternoons open for naps or reading  - just lounging around like the turtles, only out of the sun.

Friday night, we headed to St. Petersburg where we had dinner at the Birch & Vine and then walked through some shops until it started raining.

On Saturday, it was still raining in the morning, so we decided to check out the Salvador Dali Museum. Despite the abundance of pics, we unanimously decided that we did not really like Dali's work. We were through the whole place in about 20 minutes. But the museum itself was pretty and we found ways to entertain ourselves.

Yes, that is Dali in the background.

Me and the giant Dali mustache.

Glenn took some pics of the art, but it is weird stuff, and it will just give you a headache, so I am skipping it. 

We also drove over to St. Pete Beach and stopped in at the Pink Palace.

That night, we had a nice dinner on the deck outside at the Salt Rock Grill. Again, Glenn failed to take any pics. Boooo! We must have been caught up in fascinating conversation. :-)

All in all, it was a wonderful weekend, and great fun to see my folks. (They even seemed to like the dogs, who were somewhat well-behaved.) See? They look pretty happy.

All our love to you guys, and everyone else here on the blog. Come on down and see us anytime!