Friday, January 29, 2010

2009 highlights...August...continued




After a long day at Silver Springs we continued south and drove to New Port Richey, Florida to
Margaret's Uncle Bill Shortridge and his wife Bonnie. We enjoyed our time with them. It had been a long day and we decided to spend the night in Clearwater, Florida. The next morning, with a good nights rest under our belt we drove on down to St Petersburg to daughter Shana's.
We were all excited to see and spend some time with Shana, Matt and Sam. Sam is growing soooo fast. We hooked up with Matt's parents Terry and Karen Burmood and we all enjoyed lunch with them at a downtown St Pete restaurant. As much as we enjoyed our visit with Shana and Matt we were on a tight schedule and had to keep rolling, with that in mind and a long day ahead the next day we headed back to the hotel. After refueling our need for sleep we were on the road again. We decided to make a quick tour of Pinellas County. We drove to downtown St Pete and visited the famous Upside Down Pier on the waterfront downtown. We had lunch there and then drove over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Next, we went to Fort Desota State Park and on to The beaches. We hit St Pete beach then Treasure Island beach, Johns Pass beach, Mederia beach, Redington Shores beach, Belair beach and ended up at Clearwater Beach. This is absolutely a beautiful area with 30 to 40 miles of beaches going north up Gulf Boulevard.

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