Scenes Of Florida

We slept in today, in Pam's very comfortable beds.  It felt wonderful!  We had my favorite homemade steel cut oats for breakfast.  Nothing like a home cooked meal!  I admit that I get sick of eating out, especially when on vacation.  I love steel cut oats, I eat them most mornings, except when I have an English muffin.  This morning we put frozen blueberries, brown sugar and pecans on our creamy steel cut oats, YUM!

Today's first stop was a strawberry farm.  The strawberries were heavenly and beautiful and dad had to start out with a strawberry shortcake which we all shared!








Next the hydroponic farm, where dad checked out a new way of gardening.

The orange farm/market was next where we split a Cuban sandwich 4 ways.  It was rather tasty.  Mom and I also split an orange and vanilla ice cream.  The orange ice cream was the best tasting orange ice cream I've ever tasted.  We also tried different oranges and grapefruit.  My favorite was the grapefruit juice and the temple oranges because of their tartness.


Next, the #1 beach in FL Siesta Key beach in Sarasota.  The sand was white and the most soft I have ever felt, including the sand in Hawaii.  The water was a beautiful light blue, however the wind was almost torrential like and it was rather freezing.  Pretty sad our beach day was cold.  The week before we came it was in the 80's.  We must have brought the cold Idaho weather to Florida.

Just a little lot windy.

This is a statue of what was first a picture of a soldier who came back from WW2 and kissed the first girl he saw called Unconditional Solace.  Kind of cool.  

We stopped off at a few more beaches where we took pictures.  Since there was a Trader Joes in the area we also stopped and did some grocery shopping where we got ingredients for dinner.  They have the best pizza dough, which of course we got.  We came home and had homemade pizza with Pams homemade pizza sauce, which was delicious.  After dinner we watched Raising Helen and now it's time for bed!