Christmas carols in flip flops? It just feels weird. This will be our first Christmas in the South and it takes some getting used to. Poinsettias growing outdoors? An Christmas Barbeque on the patio? Christmas trees just seem out of place and I have to keep reminding myself that it is indeed December and not July.
The marina here hosted a Christmas boat parade. Several boats got all decked out for Christmas, some quite extravagantly, and put on a show for us and the local townsfolk. They paraded through the local marinas and the town set up a grandstand for the crowd.
Tradewinds Resort:
At the boat show we won a free night at a local resort in St. Pete's Beach, the Tradewinds. All we had to do was sit through a two hour presentation on "time share vacations". We were a little skeptical at first, we know some of those high pressure sales presentations can be pretty uncomfortable, but this one was actually pretty good. If we didn't live on the boat it is something that might be worth consideration.
As promised, we got our free stay at the resort and it was actually a lot of fun. They had several heated pools and hot tubs, a gorgeous beach and we had an awesome view of the Gulf of Mexico from our room. It was a nice treat!
We ate out at a restaurant owned by a local artist named Guy Harvey. We didn't know who he was but he's quite well-known in the area. At the restaurant there is large aquarium that takes up a whole wall. We had heard that you can buy tickets to swim in the aquarium and at first we were wondering if there would be people swimming by looking at us as we ate dinner, but no, thank God, the swimming in the tank takes place in the morning before the restaurant opens.
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When you go shopping down here you'll see nothing but Guy Harvey shirts everywhere ;-) Looking forward to you two getting into the Fort Myers/Cape Coral/Fort Myers Beach area. Little by little more Loopers are showing up.
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