I've been dismal at blogging this year, but here's hoping 2018 is a better year all the way around.
Anyway, we have not been on too many recent adventures, but we're having a nice, lazy New Year's weekend at home, and I figured I would report in.
Let's see - going back earlier in the month, we met up with Chad and Lisha for Sunday brunch at Parts of Paris and then walked down to the pier. We saw some manatees and a dolphin but I can't find any good pics to share of that, so here's us. It's hot.
Despite the summery temps, Glenn did a spectacular job setting up our outside Xmas lights and is the envy of the neighborhood.
And we got a live tree which we decorated, and temps even dipped down to the point of justifying a fire.
Anyway, before Christmas we went to my company's holiday party, which I have no pics of, but it was fine. Actually, our web designer, Eugene, illustrated our Roger West Christmas card this year, so here is that. (I'm the first person in the second row in case you couldn't tell.)
We also went to a party at a friend's house who is also friends with Chad and Lisha.
Aren't we adorable? We had another fun night at their place recently (again no pics) and Glenn and Chad have been meeting up to play disc golf a few times.
Did I mention that Glenn has been off for weeks? He's turning into a hobo. He did, however, take an 18-mile bike ride the other day and saw a bunch of dolphins.
Meanwhile, while Glenn has more days off than he knows what to do with, I work for Mr. Scrooge, who only gave us Christmas day off and didn't even let us leave early the Friday before. Here's my car in the parking lot - I'm guessing other people got to leave early.
Anyway, we tried to recapture some Christmas spirit by going to A Victorian Christmas Stroll at Tampa's Henry Plant museum. The museum used to be the Tampa Hotel and is famous for its metal spires. It's a nice building but the stroll cost $15 a piece and we were in and out of there in about 10 minutes, so not really worth the cost of admission.
Still, however, are a few pics.
We also managed to get a walk in on Bayshore later, where Deuce agreed to pose by a sign (I was hiding in the back).
Last night, on my way home from work, I was treated to a beautiful sunset over the Courtney Campbell Causeway. I was not able to get a good pic, but one of my fellow commuters did and posted this online, so I'm stealing it.
Here's to a happy and healthy 2018!
