A few busy days

Good evening!

We are in Bradenton, Florida for a couple of weeks visiting some friends from Canada. We arrived last Thursday around noon ....it was a great day for traveling! No wind, not much traffic so it went by quickly as we only had a 2 1/2 hr. drive south. The park where we are is pretty nice and our site is very close to others... in fact our concrete patios are only about 5 ft. from our neighbors. We pulled in one way and they pulled in the other way. That close! It is a flat area so we are glad about that! Friday, we drove around some and they showed us where things were. Our laptop returned home so we stopped by and picked it up then on around again we went. Saturday am we decided to go to the flea market here...it is huge! I think its even bigger than the one at Market at Marion near Ocala. We didn't get near the way through it but will go back another day..probably Wednesday as the weekend is pretty full. I did pick up a jade plant and hopefully I won't kill it!
A huge storm came through Friday night and the rain and wind were horrible! The wind was really bad on Saturday and it seemed like we were back in Ks!!!

Sunday (today)we went to breakfast at the Legion here and then on to drive over to Longboat Key, the beach and a really swanky place called St. Armond Circle.... the scenery was gorgeous!!!! The houses are huge, the condos are huge and they are right on the gulf side of the bay. We walked around St. Armond Circle which is a circle of shops..... it was really neat to walk in and out of them. Then we continued on to over the bay to Sarasota and to an RV park our friends wanted to find out about. It was huge! It looked like about 1700 sites and they were very busy! We talked to a workkamper about a job for our friends and got info. for them.
Then we drove home. Bill and I grilled hamburgers for supper and took a walk around the park. It did get up to about 70 here today and it is supposed to get warmer all week! That will be great so we can go back to the beach sometime!

This area is just so pretty and nice! The bay is so pretty and the huge sailboats and yachts around is just what I expected Florida to be like! Now we can add the huge, gorgeous houses, condos we saw today! Amazing! The landscaping and then their rear view is the ocean! The waves were really rolling today and the flags were red but their were surfers trying their luck with wet suits on! I imagine the water was cold!

So that about sums up what is going on in our life here in Florida!
Until next time!
BJ