We're starting to wind down in Florida. I'm trying to use up most of the canned goods and the meat in the freezer. Every little pound out of the trailer will make for a better trip north on Saturday. This makes for some interesting meals. Sunday I used up the last of the Bisquick for our weekly pancakes. Lunch was a trip to Terry's - a sports bar about 15 miles away, to collect on our beer/burger bet with Steve and Eileen. Steve is a Cornell alumni and his alma mater lost to Mizzou last Friday. Unfortunately, we have yet to see either game Mizzou played. Hopefully next weekend's games will be televised wherever we happen to be on the road. We went to Terry's Bar with Steve and Eileen and Bob and Rachel who had never been there either. Steve had been raving about the ribs, unfortunately they are only served on Tuesdays. The wings and buffalo chicken salad and Mark's burger were wonderful. It's probably good that we never knew this bar existed up until a week ago.
Since we had all this food around 3:00pm on Sunday, it was a find-what-you-can dinner. I opted out of all food; not quite sure what Mark ate. I do know that I woke up this morning with my stomach growling!
We had to set the alarm this morning for 7:00 in order to make our 9:15a tee time with Joe and Marilyn. Joe was the only one who had ever played this course so we were looking forward to something new. We weren't even 2 miles from the park when it started drizzling. We just kept driving farther south, and it only got worse. The highlight of the new route to a new course was all the spectacular equine ranches. I think we found where most of the money is in Ocala. By the time we arrived at Stone Creek by Del Webb golf course it was pouring. We all got out of our vehicles and said, "We're not playing in this." We went inside to cancel our tee time and headed to Sam's. Even though I'm trying to lighten the load, we needed bottled water and coffee.
While the State of Florida has been begging for rain, and is in a severe drought, we were hoping the drought would last until Sunday, after we leave. Fortunately it didn't really rain all that hard, nor all day long. It only got to about 70 and windy which made us feel like we were already back home. We only biked for about 10 minutes. Two of those 10 minutes were spent riding to the Jai Alai to bet on a horse race. While waiting for the race to start, I picked a dog in a different race and Mark placed a bet on yet another dog in the same race. He who always poo poos the dog races ended up winning $7.40. I like watching the dogs because they always crash and burn - the horses never do that. Unfortunately my No. 4 dog crashed today, along with four other dogs. Of course Mark's dog placed.
Tonight we went to John's birthday party in the rally hall.
John and Frances had invited quite a few of their friends. They had ordered pizzas and brought the beer. It was wonderful.
Mark and the birthday boy. His tee shirt says "My Indian Name is 'Running with Beer'"
John in his new hat. It's too bad we didn't see these at the flea market last week.
We're hoping for better weather tomorrow - we have a 9:22am tee time, then it's time to start packing up stuff.
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