Marina Life

We went to a movie (13 Hours) on Tuesday afternoon because it is “Seniors” day and we can go for $6 each.  It was a packed house of Seniors for the 4pm movie— the lousy/expensive popcorn may convince me to take out my big purse and put in some party mix like the couple in front of us.  While it may be rainy some days, the temps here in Florida have not dipped too low—like Tennessee-- and we are getting used to retirement life.  This weekend is Gasparilla in Tampa which is Florida’s answer to Mardi Gras—the 2 day event celebrates the legend of Jose Gaspar (nicknamed Gasparilla), a mythical Spanish pirate captain who supposedly operated in southwest Florida. The festival was founded in 1904 by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla — the prominent bunch of Tampa citizens who were the first to dress up as pirates to "invade" the city. The all day street festival will feature a parade  from 2-5 tomorrow on the waterfront and they will throw beads and doubloons  and the pirates come in from the water beforehand (some revelers have left the marina this morning), so we are looking forward to a big day tomorrow.  We will go by car but the pictures of all the boats in Tampa Bay from years past is pretty impressive—we will take lots of pictures.  

Snowy Egret--pet here at the marina

 

Eddy Johnson and his wife are here at Marker 1 with us--he is the weather guru for Loopers crossing the gulf

 

Yes, Fitz has long sleeves on but after hearing about the Snowpocalpse in
 Tennessee and up the East Coast we know we are lucky

Tennessee Pirate Flag--Elizabeth and Charley who gave it to us would have been proud--It helped us show our colors the entire trip

 
 

I had to repair the flag



In the mall (movie venue) we watched the skaters practicing