I met Wayne at Mazzaro's around 2:00 pm. We had lunch on the patio. MMMMMMM!
When we were about to leave, we noticed all of these ladies dressed in purple, and all with red hats on. The Red Hat Society bus had arrived! These pictures don't do them justice, but they were EVERYWHERE!
This past weekend was the annual Rib Fest in Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg. I went last year and loved the food! Wayne and I walked down from my apartment to meet Mike and some of his friends there on Saturday afternoon. There were musical groups playing all weekend, and Blue Oyster Cult was there on Saturday afternoon, and I thought I'd like to catch them there.
A choice of vendors: we ended up getting the Desperado Platter, same as I got last year!
I spent a couple of hours at Sunset Beach on Treasure Island. I got there just before 11:00 am. There was hardly anyone there. The sky looked threatening, but I didn't run into any rain except for a minute or two of light mist.
As time went on, the surfers began to arrive. Not sure if Ida was still causing the big waves, but it sure was active!
I had today off, so I spent the morning doing things around the apartment. I did some cleaning and dusting, talked on the computer with Russ in the Canary Islands, ordered my Reliv on the phone, put away the Halloween decorations (took me 2 minutes), threw out the remaining candy corn (OH NO!), and put the garbage out. Then I went to Publix to get some groceries; I bought a lot of 'buy one, get one free' things that I usually get. Saved almost $30 on a $68 bill!
I decided to make the most of the beautiful cooler weather and head over to Sunset Beach in the afternoon. Just after I got there Wayne met me.
For the first time, All Hallows Ball was held on Halloween night at the Tampa Convention Center. This year's theme was The Candy Shoppe. Click here for some background information.
Here's the view traveling across the Courtney Campbell causeway over Tampa Bay on our way. We gathered at Joe's and Chuck's first for a cocktail and to get into costume.
Wayne has been attempting a prize for 16 years and this was the year! And what a time it was! More pictures and details to follow. This year's All Hallows Masquerade Ball was held at the Tampa Convention Center.
We had a great selection of food! Oink! Oink!
The contestants in the contest.
The week has arrived! Gonna be a busy one! Tuesday night is our monthly pot luck dinner at Square Dancing. Costume contest too! Ours are ready!
Wayne goes Greek. Boy that phyllo dough is thin!!!
Saturday night the Florida Orchestra had their Pops in the Park Concert in Vinoy Park in downtown St. Petersburg. Last week we were having record high temperatures, and these past few days we have been having record lows!
Since we were bringing a picnic and the beach chairs, we drove part way there. It draws big crowds, so we were about half the distance from my apartment to the park.
We arrived around 6:00 pm for the 7:00 pm concert. We scouted out a parking space for our chairs, not too far from the stage. The park was filling fast.
'Tis the season once again: the Saturday Morning Market has returned to downtown St. Pete. For the first time, during the summer, it moved to inside the parking garage next door at the Progress Energy Park. Because of work, I hadn't made it down to the market while it was there.
A new vendor this year. We decided on a knish!
Caught on the surveillance
All Hallows Ball is being held on Halloween this year, at the Tampa Convention Center. This year's theme is "The Candy Shoppe". Our costumes are about ready. Kudos to Wayne.
Wayne learned of a new place opening up about 6 blocks from my apartment. It's the Three Birds Tavern. It was formerly Limey's. They were having their grand opening on Friday night, and one of their specials was Fish and Chips. We have a standing joke about Fish and Chips on a Friday night. A while back, we went to one of the Frenchy's in Clearwater and wanted to get some fish and chips, and it was on a Friday night. We were informed that they didn't serve it on Friday night, but did on Saturday night. So, needless to say, we were speechless when we saw that Three Birds Tavern was having fish and chips as a special.
When we drove by the place, it was jammed packed. We would have had to park in Terre Haute and hiked back.
We enjoyed it a lot! Wayne got the Fish and Chips, but I went for a tofu and vegetable curry dish. (I look like a walleyed salmon! I must have used a wide angle lens.) We thought about going to Paciugo for gelato, a couple of doors away, but there was absolutely no room left in the tummy. Besides, the line at Paciugo stretched right out the door!
I went for two walks today. One this morning before work (I went in at 12:30 pm) and the other tonight. On my way back tonight, I spotted this scene a block from my apartment. I will miss Mia and Gina on Hallowe'en!!!
I was surprised to find that the waves had eroded a good chunk of the beach since we were there last week. There is now a drop off. Where I was sitting, the drop off was almost 2 feet!!!
