Just returned from the beach.... And some beautiful paintings!

Had a great month in PCB.  I was there for a month.  Dom joined me for 5 nights over Independence Day.

We had a grand time.

Went to Dee's Hangout, The Boar's Head, Montego Bay for food.  Spent a lot of afternoon happy hours at The Liq-

We also have a "new addition" to the condo.  One of my nieces, Melissa used the condo back during Spring Break.  Much to my delight, she shipped me 2 of her lovely paintings.  She knows how I love Stingrays....  Thanks again, honey!

I've got a lot of group pictures, storm pictures, fireworks and beach photos coming up soon!

A Fun Week With Pal Sheila

Just got back from the beach the other day.  Had a delightful time.

My great high school pal, Sheila flew down for a week.  We hadn't seen each other for 30+ years.  You'd never know it.  We didn't skip a beat.  You'd have thought that we were still teenagers!

We had a BUSY, busy week.  Perfect weather-  Not a drop of rain while she visited.  We beached it every day, hit Happy Hour across the street, then ate out each night...

*Dee's Hangout
*Los Rancheros
*Firefly TWICE
*Montego Bay
*Rockit Lanes sports pub
*Carrabas with Jamison, Lauren and Keith.

Our Lauren and Keith came over to spend the night.  Had great fun on the beach, as normal.

We had a grand time and are planning her next visit!

The Liq

Dee's Hangout

Chef Dee at The Liq

Dee's Hangout

Los Rancheros

My Edguardo

Carrabas

Carrabas

Manager Eric at Firefly

Firefly

Firefly

EMERALD COAST CRUIZIN

We had a grand time last week at the beach.  The highlight of the visit was the Emerald Coast Cruizin car show.  A wonderful venue, great cars and great music.

The water was gorgeous.  Unfortunately, too cold to swim.  Other Novembers in the past have been great.  Not this year.

There were oodles of stingrays visible because the water was so calm.

                             

 As usual, we had a fabulous meal at Dee's Hangout.  We both had our favorites.  Himself had a shrimp po-boy and I had a pork belly burger.  Unreal.  The absolute BEST on the beach!

One day we put a couple of hundred miles on the Corvette for a drive through Florida's "Forgotten Coast"

http://www.forgottencoastline.com/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Coast

It's a lovely, basically undeveloped area.  Just single family homes and rental homes.  No high rise condos.  Nor much entertainment to speak of.  It's a nice, nice area, but we prefer the action in Panama City Beach.

Our last day on the beach was Veterans Day.  I love that Emerald Coast Cruizin has always been the weekend prior to this holiday that means so much to me.  Dom is a Vietnam Veteran.  Dad was a WWII Vet.  God Bless 'Em!

As usual, this Veterans Day was a total PIG-OUT.  Lunch at Hooters consisted of a pitcher of beer and 10 free wings.  (we could only eat 4 each).

Dinner was at Applebee's where Dom got a free steak and I ordered off of the menu.... 2-For-1 beers, too!

It was great to see our pals at Beach Bar and Package, too!

Would love to convince The Dom to move to PCB permanently, but he enjoys being a "Gentleman Farmer" here in the middle of nowhere.

September at the Beach

September is a lovely time to visit PCB.  The kids are back in school, the beach is uncrowded, and this year the water was spectacular.

Patricia drove down for 4 nights.  (My favorite roomate!).  Much to my delight, a lifelong hometown neighbor and family friend, Rondi came down from Colorado for a couple of nights with her husband Roy.

We had a grand time.  I had a pizza delivered one night.  Then we hung out at the beach the entire next day.  It was wonderful to be with an old Ohio pal!

I was there for a couple of weeks.  Patricia and I hit our favorites....Dee's Hangout and Los Rancheros.  For the most part, I just hung out at the beach all day, then fended for myself foodwise.  I don't like to eat out alone.

Much to my delight, pals Keith and Lauren came over to spend a night.  We did some Stouffer's lasagna in the condo, Keith sprung for happy hour across the street, then we played on the beach the next morning.  (We're getting really good at ladder-golf)

This was amusing..... the gulf was loaded with stingrays.  I had done some research on them and learned that they're harmless but curious creatures.  (Unless you step on one, as Rondi's brother did a few years ago here).

From the 22nd floor, we'd watch these critters swimming towards people.  Wait for it....wait for it.....  "AHHHHHHHHHH".  They'd run screaming out of the water.  Funny.

So.... it was a wonderful 2 weeks.  Dom and I are headed back in October.  Cannot wait!