Week twelve at Bryn Mawr Ocean Resort - St. Augustine, FL

Mar. 30 - Apr. 2    On Saturday we spent the afternoon at the beach.  I had to put my shirt on because the wind was very cool.  We eventually went back to the RV and Mike watched basketball.  We went to Tom and Mary's for dinner and we had delicious crab cakes, then we played cards.  On Sunday (Happy Easter) we went to the beach at 11:00.  It was a beautiful day there, the wind felt good.  We had to leave at 2:30 because we had to be over to Tom and Mary's at 3:30 to go to Easter Dinner at the Raintree in downtown St. Augustine.  Evelyn and her 2 daughters joined us also. After dinner we had to say good-bye to Tom and Mary because they were leaving the next day for Orlando to watch their granddaughter play softball.  When we got back to the RV Mike watched basketball and I walked to the beach and sat on the bench and read.  In the evening we played cards and watched TV.  On Monday we walked the beach after we got up.  It was a beautiful morning.  We met Evelyn and her daughter Sara at the Sunset Grille for lunch.  It looked like it was going to rain in the afternoon so I sat under the awning and read.  At 5:30 we drove to Red Frog & McToads Restaurant to have dinner and play Trivial Pursuit with Tom and Mary's friends, Evelyn came too.  We came in 2nd place this week.  On Tuesday Mike went golfing with Tom's friends.  After I got up, I went down to the beach to walk.    We spent the afternoon, 12 - 5, at the beach.  We came back to RV and started putting things away, getting ready to leave tomorrow.  We went to Woody's Bar-B-Q and had baby back ribs one last time - they are so good.

Week eleven at Bryn Mawr Ocean Resort - St. Augustine, FL

paddle boarder

pelicans sitting on beach

pelicans sitting on beach

small stingray stranded on beach

Mar. 23 -29   On Saturday after breakfast we went to a flea market out by Interstate 95 again because I saw something I wanted to get our grandchildren.  After the flea market we went down to old town in St. Augustine to a big Arts and Crafts Festival.  It poured just before we got there so the field had huge puddles where all the booths were.  It started to thunder so we went back to the car and got there just before it started to rain again.  We spent the day in the RV because we had severe thunder storms rolling through.  It poured very hard and we even had hail the size of a large gumball, luckily no damage.  The weather channel even said there was a threat of tornadoes, I was a little scared cause where could we go??  Luckily no tornadoes showed up.  Sunday we walked on the beach in the morning.  In the afternoon we went over to Tom and Mary's and played cards and had dinner too.  Monday we walked on the beach in the morning.  It was blue sky, sunny, cold wind blowing and in the 60's.  In the afternoon  I went and sat on the beach and read.  In the evening we had dinner at Red Frog and McToads with Tom and Mary and we played Trivial Pursuit at the restaurant.  We came in 4th out of 14 teams.  Tuesday morning we got up to 52 degrees in and 45 degrees out.  After breakfast we took our walk on the beach. There was a small stingray on the beach, neat looking.  While Mike took a nap I went to the front office and reserved a campsite for next year.  We went out to dinner with Tom and Mary then came back to the RV and played cards.  Wednesday we got up to 45 degrees inside the RV - brrrr and 40 degrees outside.  In the afternoon I went down to the beach and sat on the boardwalk over the dunes bench and read.  At 2:00 I went back up to the RV because Anne and Don Hutchins were coming for a visit.  We sat outside on the boardwalk bench then came inside and played games - Phase 10 (dice), Fan Tan (cards).  Then we went out to dinner at the Sunset Grille.  We came back and played more games - Fan Tan, Phase 10 (cards), and Rummycube.  Thursday we took a walk on the beach in the morning.  In the afternoon I went back down to the bench and sat and read.  Still sunny but cold and windy.  Good Friday Mike got up early and went golfing with Tom. Then we met Tom and Mary for breakfast.  We spent the afternoon on the beach.  We saw a paddle boarder and also pelicans standing on the beach; never seen that before. That evening we went with Tom and Mary and Evelyn to Tom and Mary's church for a fish fry dinner.  After dinner we went back to Tom and Mary's house and played cards.

Week ten at Bryn Mawr Ocean Resort - St. Augustine, FL

Our campsite 105

Mike at the beach

Looking south at the beach

Looking North at the beach

Judy at the beach

The beach is right behind the truck camper straight ahead.  Our site is on the right, see green tree

Mar. 16 - 22   On Saturday Mike went golfing with Tom and friends.  Mary and I met them for breakfast.  When we got back to the RV we went to the beach for the rest of the afternoon.  Mike actually went into the ocean twice; the water is very, very cold.  On Sunday we met Evelyn and her daughter for breakfast.  After breakfast Mike and I went to a flea market.  When we got back to the RV we went to the beach for a couple of hours; much cooler than yesterday. On Monday we took a walk on the beach after breakfast.  It was sunny with lots of blue sky, so we came back to the RV and changed into our swimsuits and went down to the beach for the afternoon.  Mike went into the ocean twice again.  For dinner we met Evelyn, Tom and Mary and 2 other couples at Red Frog and McToads Restaurant.  They come to this restaurant every Monday night to have dinner then play Trivial Pursuit against 14 other  teams.  On Tuesday, Mike went golfing with Tom and friends.  After I ate breakfast, I took my bike down to the beach. This beach has a very wide, hard packed sand near the waters edge.  I rode my bike for about a half an hour.  After lunch, Mike and I drove about 5 miles south of our RV site and visited with friends from Pittsford who are here for the month of March, Don and Anne Hutchins.  They took us out to dinner down in Flagler Beach.  On Wednesday  after breakfast, we drove down to the pier at St. Augustine Beach.  Our friend, Mary, has a booth at the Farmer's Market there.  There were more arts and crafts booths than fruit and veg. booths. I did buy another bag of oranges which I will make into fresh orange juice.  I have my mom's electric juicer.  After lunch, I took a walk on the beach.  It was very cloudy and windy; there were only a few people on the beach.  On Thursday, Mike went golfing with Tom.  Mary and I met them for breakfast after they were done golfing.  When we got back to the RV, Mike took a nap and I carried my beach chair down to the beach and sat and read most of the afternoon.  When I came back up, Mike was watching March Madness Basketball, so I made my fresh orange juice; oh it tastes so good.  On Friday Mike, I, Tom and Mary went out to the flea market, near 95, and next to it there is a place where you get strawberries by standing up and cutting them off with scissors.  They were hydrophonic strawberries.  We then went to lunch with Tom and Mary.  When we got home, I took a walk on the beach then sat there and read for a couple of hours.  When I came up, we got ready and went back over to Tom and Mary's and then drove over to their favorite pizza place and had dinner.  We then went back to their house and played cards, Fan Tan with pennies.  I won the most pennies.

Week nine at Recreational Plantation Resort - Lady Lake, FL

Mike in Sam's brother's golf cart

Judy & Mike in golf cart

Playing 18 holes of golf  - Janet, Sam, Mike and me

Mar. 9 - 15    On Saturday we rode our bikes around the park.  There are 850 sites in this resort.  (I forgot to take a picture of our site 803.)  We drove over to my cousins, Janet and Sam's house and Sam had borrowed his brother's golf cart so we would have 2.  We toured the new part of the Villages in the golf carts.  Mike and I still can't get over all the golf carts that are driven around the Villages.  Janet let me drive the golf cart.  It is so neat zooming around in them.  On Sunday Janet and Sam took us to a flea market which had a good fruit and veg. stand.  I bought oranges so I can make fresh orange juice.  I also got strawberries which are so sweet.  It is the height of their season right now.  In the afternoon we drove to our friend from home, Jim Liebmann, who has moved here and built a house and a gorgeous swimming pool and patio.  We had a very nice time visiting him.  On Monday we spent most of the day at Janet's doing laundry.  We came back to our RV to put the laundry inside and when we got to our campsite, there was a big white van in our parking space.  When we got out the people did too and it was Joyce and Larry Space.  They used to live in Pittsford, now they live in VT for 6 mos. and RV for 6 mos.  She had followed my blog and when they got in this area they looked us up.  We made plans for Wed. night.  After they left we got in the car and drove to another Piffsford friend's house, Dianne Newhouse.  She lives here for 6 mos. and Pittsford for 6 mos.  The 3 of us went out to eat at Woody's Bar-B-Q. As Mike says," best ribs ever".  On Tuesday it was raining so we went over to Janet and Sam's house and they drove us to the new town square they are building here in the Villages, called Brownwood (has a western theme).  This will make town square number 3. We then took Janet and Sam to Woody's for dinner.  On Wednesday we hung out at the RV.  At 5:00 we met Joyce and Larry and ate dinner at a Mexican Restaurant then they came back to our RV to play cards.  On Thursday we went golfing with Sam and Janet.  They had a special that day for 18 holes, cart and dinner, so we had dinner there.   On Friday we were on the road at 10:30.  We arrived at Bryn Mawr which is right on the ocean around 2:30.  Our site is 105 and we are about 5 sites in from the walk over the dunes to the beach.  We got settled and then took our cocktails down to the beach and sat there for about 2 hours - we love this place. That night we ate dinner with friends, Evelyn, Tom and Mary at the Sunset Grill.

Week eight at John Prince Park Campground - Lake Worth, FL

Site 67 on lake at John Prince Park Campground

Palm Beach Golf Club - Par 3

Debbi Galloway and Judy on 18th hole

Debbi, Mike, Dave, Debbie, Jim  18th hole

Judy and Mike 18th hole

Judy & Mike, Dave & Debbi, Debbie & Jim, Barb & Dave on cruise boat

Jim & Debbie, Dave & Barb, Dave & Debbi on top deck of Lady Atlantis

Mar. 2 - Mar. 8   On Saturday, Dave and Debbie Galloway came to our campsite and picked us up and drove us all around the area and showed where the good restaurants were and where we could park for free and go to the beach.  Very cool outside, cloudy in the morning and sunny and breezy in the afternoon.  They took us to Two Georges right on the inter coastal for lunch.  We could sit outside because the building stopped the wind.  They brought us back to the RV.  That night we met Don and Diane Reeve and Don's sister Delora for dinner at the Olive Garden.  They were down here visiting Delora who lives here.  Sunday  was very cold last night in the 50's.  After breakfast we rode around the park for about an hour.  It is a county park and  very big and very pretty.  Our campsite is right on the lake.  In the afternoon we drove over to Debbi and Dave Galloway's and ate lunch around their condo's pool.  Very sunny but we had to sit out of the wind because that was very cold.  We went back to their condo and they had invited 3 other couples, all who worked for the Pittsford School District and now retired, over for dinner.  We had a very good time.  When we got home it was very cold in the RV so we had to get out our electric heater and turn it on.  It heats up the place very nicely.  Monday morning we had to turn on heater again because it was in the 50's, but during the night it got down in the 40's.  Around 10:30 we drove over to Debbie and Dave's and put our golf clubs in their car and drove to Palm Beach Par 3 Course, that was between the inter coastal and the Atlantic Ocean. Front nine was along the inter coastal and the back nine was on the Atlantic; so pretty.  Jim and Debbie Shannon played with us.  We all went out to dinner in downtown West Palm Beach at Rocco Taco's; very good food.  Tuesday we drove over to Debbi and Dave's and then Debbi G., Debbie S., Mike and I all drove over to the beach.  Mike sat and read at the beach and the girls and I walked the beach.  Gorgeous day.  We at lunch at Debbi's condo and then sat around her condo pool.  That night 2 other couples, Jim and Debbie and Barb and Dave, came over and we ate dinner then played Euchre. Mike and Barb were the winners.  Wednesday we went over to Debbi and Dave's and put our golf clubs in their car and drove down to Boca to play golf at Boca Dunes Golf Club.  Jim and Debbie, Barb and Dave and Debbi Galloway's mother played with us also.  After we were all done we went to Debbi's mom's condo right there on the golf course and had cocktails, then we all went out to dinner at Duffy's.  Thursday we were up to a cold morning again, in 50's, in 40's overnight.  We met Debbie and Dave at 9:15 and drove down to Delray Beach to take a cruise on the inter coastal.  All who played golf yesterday came too.  We were on the top deck and saw a lot of gorgeous and huge homes right on the inter coastal. Almost all of them had beautiful swimming pools and the landscaping was incredible.  We even saw a manatee swimming in the water.  We ate lunch at another neat restaurant called Old Key Lime House.  We all had a lobster and shrimp sandwichs which were so good.  When we got back to the RV, we packed up the stuff we had gotten out and got ready to leave tomorrow, Friday.  We were up and ready to leave by 9:15.  We hooked the car onto the RV and off we went.  The whole trip was on the Florida Turnpike.  We got to Lady Lake around 2:00 and set up on our site 803 at Recreation Plantation.  It is a huge resort with mostly single wide permanent homes.  I called my cousin, Janet, to tell her we were here and she told us to come over at 6:00 for dinner.  Janet and Sam live in "The Villages".  We spent a very nice evening with them and planned out the week.