Our first visitor, our son, was able to rent this sweet ride!

2018 Volvo

He was able to save up his pennies for a First Class air fare, so he did what everyone does in First Class.  He drank as much as he could because it was FREE!  Well not really…..but you know what I mean  , so I was his DD for the ride home.  He was able to talk the people at the car rental place into a free upgrade.  He does work there after all, and he ended up with a 2018 Volvo XC90, ooooh, what a sweet ride!  When we left the parking lot of the car rental place, Pat had to compare their workers with his workers at the MSP airport.  The people at SWF failed miserably.  They didn’t even ask for any ID from either of us when we took the car off the lot.  That’s a Boozo Nono!  Bad move Chickie!  Anyway, this car could practically drive itself!  When I got a little to close to the solid white line, it pushed the car back over into the lane!  I freaked out when that happened until Pat told me of the little driving feature and all the other whistles and bells the car had.  I don’t know, too much help for me, I kind of like swaying in and out of lanes while I drive.  Makes it more interesting ;).

The next group arrived the following day.

All ready for fun and sunshine!

It included the two walking wounded

One with a broken leg

One with stitches in his chin

And a mom that was ready to relax

The first day we just hung out at the pool

Just chillin by the pool

I get to swim!

And caught our own……CRABS!  Yes!  I said crabs!  And not just any old crabs, they were BLUE crabs!  I was impressed.  Just think of the money we can save on food now!  We’ll just eat Blue Crabs for the rest of our life ;).

So how did we catch these crabs?  First we bought a crab trap at Wal-Mart, then we bought some chicken livers, then Gary put the livers in the trap and thru it out in the canal.  The next day he pulled it up

What did we get?

and their were two crabs in there,

OOOOOOh, two of them.

big enough to eat!  If you look real close you can actually see the blue color on their legs.

Crab number one

crab number 2

Into the pot they went

This is tough work, drinking beer and cooking crab.

a few minutes later

All cooked

they were all ready to eat.  A few minutes after that

All eaten! Yum!

all gone!  And very tastee!  We threw the crab pot in again for another round.  Two days later there were 2 more in it but they were really small, we didn’t even keep them.  So much for the savings on the grocery bill 

The last day of our son’s visit, he and Gary rented a couple of Harleys for the day

Filler up!

Not much to look at but for $70 for the bike and $20 for insurance, not a bad price for a day of bike riding.  Gary had scouted out a route beforehand to make sure they didn’t end up on a freeway and to make sure they had something to look at.  They drove to Everglades City and back.  They did see some alligators on the road, some were very close and scared the crap out of our Pat LOL.  Gary had to pick some bugs out of his teeth, unfortunately the bikes didn’t come with windshields.  Oh well, you can’t expect much for $70 :).

While they were on the bike trip, we went to 4 Mile Eco Park which was just down the street from us.  It was a good start to their vacation because most of the trail was tree covered which kept everyone in the shade.  They did have a few docks that went out in the river.  See this picture

Alligator or log? You decide.

Is this an alligator or not?  Sure looks like one to me.

The crew had a wonderful day

Smiles everyone. Smiles!

When we finished our walk, we were able to look at the war memorials that they had set up in the parking lot

All in all everyone had a fun day.