Early Days

The morning dawned bright and lovely over the balcony  in the bedroom!  We found my ‘Community” coffee yesterday in the Publix and I had a great cup of coffee, Dean had a

Diet Coke.  Kevin, Nancy and Little Oscar showed up and we all walked on the beach.  

It was nice, mid 70s sunny.  Little Oscar was not so sure about the ocean, and i have to admit it was pretty nippy!  

We had lunch at Sloppy Joe’s on the beach.  Dean had the Sloppy Joe and said it was not so hot for a restaurant of that name.  (I told him Kathy MIller’s sloppy Joe is AMAZING!) After we came back and I painted the afternoon away and had a little Josh and Fritos.  Dean and I just got back from a second perusal of the progress of the sculptures and a sunset. 

 We can not figure out the imagery of the two pieces with a cross, and wooden people.  One fellow suggested that they were puppets but still the meaning eludes me.  Hopefully we will get to talk to the artist and become enlightened.  My mind can go all kinds of ways with it, but I want to know that the artist intended.

There is a Dali museum here a ( in St Pete) and this one piece is like a sandcastle abstract to me, FULL of imagery as you walk around it. I think dinner is going to be Italian,  I’ll report on that tomorrow.

Revisiting

 Four o-clock came pretty early this morning. I got all my last minute things done though and Chris came, picked me up, we retrieved Dean and headed to the airport.  Things went well until we got to TSA and the guys said there is a little problem,  he thought my birth year might not be 1995.  It was an easy fix and everyone was kind.  I was rather crushed that I cold not pass for that BD though.  We got through TSA without a further hitch, ate some airport breakfast. Though eggs are eggs, right?  I want to the powder room and when I cam out Dean was saying we need to board ( it was 7AM our flight was 7:30) and so we sailed right on the plane.  Southwest and it was a nice shiny new plane.  The ride was uneventful and we had an empty seat between us.  I dosed a tiny bit but mostly read, chatted and played on my phone as Dean could get me SW internet.  

Kevin and Nancy were not getting in for about 2 hours so we had lunch at PF Changs, and then moseyed around the airport and finally roosted until they arrived.

I loved this “Pink Pelican”. 

We went for  lunch for Kevin and Nancy, Little Oscar (Van) sure has grown.

He is about 9 ish months and is already as big as Petunia! Just pulling up though not walking yet! 

 HE is so cute, it is uncanny how much he looks like his daddy at that age.  The house Kevin rented is nice BUT this condo is amazing! 

 It has a largish balcony with a table for 6 and  a lovely view,

we actually saw a dolphin swimming!  

Dean let me have the cool room with a view!

We walked next door to a Publix. Got to witness a lovely sunset.

 All these people were on the beach and we realized that they were there for the sunset.  Anyway we got some supplies including a nice Josh Cab!