We woke up early on Thursday to go down to the beach one more time before the check out time. The waves were much bigger than they had been all week. It's crazy to think that all the way across the Gulf, the winds from the Dean storm effected the waves at St Pete Beach. Anyway, we said our goodbye's to the beach and ocean, had another Cuban sandwich and hit the road.
On our way out of town, we returned to the shops on Corey Ave. (The place I said wasn't any better than the Plaza, and was actually pretty gaudy) Well, at Duet, that's right, not Duet's, Lindsey bought me a Ukelele for our 2 yr anniversary. It's pretty awesome, really easy to play and sounds great. Now, that's three guitars, a mandolin, a uke, a keyboard, a wood xylo, a rain stick, two djembe's, an Indian circle drum, an Indonesian gourd shaker, a Sri Lankan rattle, some hand-painted castanets, and a set of drums. (From Lynz-mandolin, uke, xylo, rs, and castanets)
Down the street at "The Shell Store" we went back to pick up a lovely little kresch for my brother for the ride to and from the airport (you're welcome!), and saw a display case of jewelry that we hadn't seen earlier in the week. And, so, I got Lynz three awesome necklaces and earrings. So, the point of all this, we'd like to redact our previous statement that shopping on corey ave isn't all it's cracked up to be. It turned out just fine!
We left St. Pete Beach and stopped at the actual St. Petersburg on our way to Orlando. We stopped for two reasons. To get a second look at a couple of stores on Bay Walk; stopping in one to get Lindsey's birthday present (let's talk about our anniversary being 10 days before her birthday sometime...) a square black glass clock with charcoal gray Eiffel tower embossed on it, and another to see the price on AWESOME shirts with 80's NFL logos. Mustoe, Andy and Caldwell, you guys would've loved these. The best were the old school Buccaneer with the knife in his mouth in bright orange and the old Patriot in the three point stance. Alas, these short-sleeve, faded-looking t-shirts were 50 bucks a piece.
Alright, real business in St. Petersburg was the Salvador Dali Museum. Awesome! Dali was one messed up dude, and his paintings are pretty messed up too.
They had the originals of Dali's 15 foot tall, 10 foot wide masterpieces and the one with the blocks and naked lady up close and then at 20 meters becomes Abe Lincoln. Crazy stuff.
Alright, we left the coast line and went inland to Orlando (ridin' high and smooth, by the way) That night we went to the Orlando outlet mall, which was a bust neither of us really in the mood. We had a great dinner at a steak place across from out hotel. Oh yeah, our hotel was the Wyndam Resort. Pretty sweet.
Our morning before the flight, we went to Orlando's best attraction....Gatorland!!!! 17oo gators and 10 crocs. I think I prefer to let the Gatorland pictures speak for themselves.
Well, folks, there you have it. Our first big trip together and shared with all of you. Thanks for stopping by and listening to our stories. Now, it's back to real life.
Keep on keeping on, BnV
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