My Funny Valentine

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a fun Valentine's Day Weekend. I will regale you with the story of ours, but first, I'll go back to last weekend, when we went to Dunedin for dinner.

We returned to "Bon Appetit!" which is restaurant with a beautiful view and consistently terrible food and service. We were giving them a last shot and now, sadly, they are on our banned list. Still, it was a nice evening to be out on the water.

We have, however, had a string of successful meals out and about in our own little Safety Harbor, so we'll have some nice options for any of you if you come down.

On an unrelated side note, we have diligently worked on teaching the dogs to stay off the furniture, which they do when we are home. However, when Glenn got home early the other day, this is the scene that lay before him.

What?!

Ok, so anyway, on Friday, we met up with our friends Cathy and Mark Jennings who came down to visit Cathy's parents. We met them in Tampa after work at Jackson's restaurant and had a very nice visit. I have no pictures of the event, but you'll have to take my word for it.

Saturday, Glenn had secret plans for me. He hired a dog sitter and took me on a journey about an hour and a half away to Homosassa Wildlife Preserve. I had been asking him to take me to Crystal River to see the manatees, and this is right down the road from there. We stopped in at Crystal River too, but I think Homosassa was even better.

The park is about a mile away from the visitor's center, so we took a Pontoon boat to get there.

We took this black river to the park, but once there, the water is from Homosassa Springs and is a beautiful turquoise color.

They have areas for the animals all around the spring. So here, I will walk you around and show you what we saw.

WHO doesn't love an owl?

This is an endangered Whooping Crane.

Mr. Bob Cat

"No Swimming"

There was part of the spring that was just full of fish. More fish than I have ever seen in one place at one time. There was an underwater viewing area that will give you a little idea of what it was like.

Finally, you are probably saying to yourselves, this is all fine and good, but where the heck are the manatees? Well, as Glenn often complains, manatees are not particularly photogenic, but here's what we got.

Hello there, Valentine!

So that's it for this week's tour of Homohassa (land of the pepper plant). Hope all is well for all of you! Love, us