Car trip

We took a trip to the airport area to locate a new budget parking place, our GPS took us almost there.  It is good to know where it is for when we fly to MN for Christmas.  Then we went to Camping World again and finally to Long John Silver's for dinner.  Was a lot of driving!

Last night we had dinner at Logan's Roadhouse, we had steak and lobster - had a coupon for $12 off!  It was good, I like the grilled vegetables which I chose as a side.

More shopping

We went out for breakfast at Golden Corral again - Don's favorite place, then we went to 5 stores.  We just had odds and ends to get and we got home by noon. In the evening we ate at Olive Garden, had a good dinner.  Later we rented the movie Rio which was cute.

Curiosity and more shopping

On our way out shopping we saw the launch of the Mar's rover Curiosity, launches are always fun but I miss the Shuttle launches.

I had checked my lists and was back on the trail of more gifts - about done.  We had dinner at Cici's pizza and rented the movie Dilemma which was so-so.

Black Friday

Shopping, shopping, shopping - I was so tired by noon.  I got an early start, there weren't too many people put at the morning went on the people appeared.  I am probably about 2/3 done shopping, think I'll go out again tomorrow.

We ate at Chili's - I had shrimp tacos for the first time and they were excellent!  We rented the new Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides for the evening and we enjoyed the show.

Thanksgiving Day

Cracker Barrow was our place for Thanksgiving turkey dinner as in the past 10 or so years.  We always take one of their good turkey dinners home for "leftovers" in the evening.  It was fairly busy there, the parking lot was full but we lucked out to find a spot right away.

We tried to shop at Kohl's at midnight but there were no parking sites available and a line of people about 3/4 of the way around the building.  We then decided to try Walmart but people were even parked on the grass there, so we went home and got to bed by 1AM.

Target via foreign visitors eyes -

I followed a family into Target today and soon realized that they were from another country, perhaps Italy.  It was obvious that they had never seen such a sight -  A bright huge store filled with everything you could dream.  It was like Disney World for them, interesting to watch but had to tell myself how lucky we are to have these type of stores everywhere even if we do like to complain about consumerism.

Let the shopping begin!

Target and Sam's Club today (Don went to Camping World), I feel good getting a start and getting some ideas,   direction.

Sunday brunch

Breakfast was at Golden Corral, they have a nice buffet and they fix omelets to order.  We stayed home the rest of the day - I developed a bad headache.  After a two hour nap and finally a pain pill I felt better in the evening.

Sweet Tomatoes

We ate dinner at Sweet Tomatoes, one of our favorite places.  In the morning we went grocery shopping at Publix and Sweetbay also picked up a Red Box movie.

Princess Cruises still loves me!

Our cabin for our January cruise was upgraded to the middle of the top floor of cabins!!!  My favorite spot.

We ate at Ruby Tuesday's, the first time I've seen spaghetti squash on the menu.  It was good as was the rest of the meal.

What can happen ~~~~

~~~ will happen.  We moved to Thousand Trails RV Park today, but it wasn't a happy move.  First  the humidity was 100% - fog, then as Don began to unhook the motorhome in rolled a thunder storm.  Twice he had to stop getting his jobs done and come inside.  Thousand Trails reservations ARE engraved in stone, no show-a fine, can't change dates and if you don't arrive before about 11AM you can forget about getting a good site.

But we finally got on the road only to keep getting the message from the MH that there was water in the diesel. The warning would come and go.  This isn't something to be taken lightly as the MH computer will shut down the motor if it wants to.  We decided to stop and get some new diesel and fortunately we were near a service station where we could get in and out without any problem.  The new diesel seemed to help with the problem and we drove the last 10 miles with no warnings.

We got to Thousand Trails and we did get a super good spot, but pulling out of the parking lot we got too close to the curb and as we drove away we got the message a car tire was low.  We stopped as soon as we could and the tire wasn't low, it was flat as a pancake.  The valve stem broke off on the curb.  We detached the car and got it off the road, parked the MH at our site (and plugged it in as we needed air conditioning ASAP).  Don walked the half mile back to the car and put on the spare tire.  Later we took the car to a local Honda place where they repaired the tire and "relearned" the tire warning system for $110.

It was a long, hot day.

Florida Day

Weather like only Florida, hot and humid.  We actually had our air conditioner on most of the day.  It didn't seem to bother Don who power washed the motorhome and our concrete deck.  Went out to eat, just too hot to cook.  (yes, any excuse will do)

Cruise

I was looking for a hotel and rental car for our trip to MN at Christmas time and jumped over to Princess Cruises web site.  There it was, a good deal ~~~ so I bought it.  It is a 7 might cruise to the Eastern Caribbean in January and a balcony room.  That should be fun!

Cold night in Florida

It was a nice day after a cold night.  It was warmer places in Canada than here in Florida last night!

We rented the movie "Fast Five" with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel.  Was good, fast moving.

11-11-11

11-11-11 Veterans Day!  Thanks to all Vets that helped to keep USA safe and free!

RV Blinds

We went to check out the new kind of RV window blinds and found a huge sales/repair facility we didn't know was there and only about 30 miles away.  We also got to see the blinds installed in an RV and fabric samples, etc.  Now we need to decide if we want to invest the money to get rid of these stupid blinds that have the strings breaking.

We ate at Steak and Shake on the way home, always a good choice.

Brooksville

We went to Brooksville today to get hair cuts.  We had lunch at Cici's Pizza, this Cici's has a salad that is like Olive Gardens.  I badly needed at Target store fix, it had been a long time.  Mostly good to get out of the RV park today.

Way I feel!

Time

I hate time change day - I keep trying to figure out how it is when we set the clocks back we do everything later.  Went to bed earlier last night, got up later today.  How does that work?  I didn't reset some of my watches from when we were in Central Time so now they are correct in Eastern Time but not correct in Central Time.  I like getting up when it is light out but hate it when it's dark at 6PM.  I vote we just leave the clocks alone and stay on one time for all the USA and people can adjust.  No more time zones or daylight time just adjust.

Crazy Florida Weather

It was cold when we got up today - then hot in the afternoon.  They had a good breakfast in the club house, then pizza for dinner.  We rented the movie "Bad Teacher", the movie was close to being bad.

Chocolate fountain

We went to the Escapees Chapter meeting at Golden Corral in Clermont.  There was a good turn out for the first meeting of the winter season.  As usual I ate too much and was half sick.  The place has a new thing - a chocolate fountain.  It is impossible to bypass!   

Trip to Tampa

November 1 already!  We ate lunch at Sweet Tomatoes in Tampa, then it was a quick stop at Camping World.  From there we went to Parksdale Farms to load up on fresh vegetables.  We left with two bags of goodies which cost us $6!