Saw this Heron Planter at My Island Thrift shop and had to have it! 

And Tucson had to lick the Ice cream container and did a great job

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We road back down Tropical Trail to Dragon Point.  Saw how the top 1% live.

Houses are on the Banana River and their docks are across the road in the Indian River 

Someday we'll figure out how to get to the point before we get into the Drawbridge over the river.

Gary wanted to stop somewhere for a burger or hot dog for lunch but I saw the sign for Squid Lips and I had to go there.

Did not disappoint.  Gary had a 1/2 lb burger and I had the coconut crusted tilapia.with mango chutney - Divine!

Took A1A The Jimmy Buffet Memorial Highway back past Patrick Air Force Base.

And stopped to check out the beach

There were some big waves!

Finished off the week at the Cocoa Village Playhouse to see Kinky Boots.  A beautifuly refurbished theater.

Patrick Marshall was fabulous as Lola 

And Shane Withrow as Charlie Price 

The whole cast was amazing with only 5 weeks of rehearsal to learn the songs, dance moves and dialogue.

Only 5 weeks left here!

Winter Trip 2024/25 - Cocoa FL 1st 2 weeks March

Started out the Month at the First United Methodist Church in Cocoa Beach..  There was a manned spaceship going up this week so they sang a special hymn for the Astronauts.

 

On the way home we saw they were having an arts and crafts show in Cocoa Village so we stopped to see.

We did pick up a 50+ SPF long sleeve T-Shirt each.

We have free storage for our RV while we are here.  CoCo looks so small!  Gonna be hard to move back in!

A couple good rains we which we needed

But still enough good weather for the pool.  Gary even enjoyed Volleyball 

We were sad to learn our lovely neighbor was moving back to Kentucky!  We helped her load up the Truck anyway.

I got up just before 3 a.m. to get pics of the Blood Moon

One zoomed in shot with my phone

One with my Camera

Our friends Norm and Alice took us down to Sebastian FL for thrift shopping and lunch.

Captain Hiram's 

The Launch to bring back the stranded astronauts was delayed by a day, but it did take off.  Watched from Norm and Alice's back yard.

A good 2 weeks.  Hard to believe only 6 weeks till we head back to NC

Winter Trip 2024/25 - Cocoa, FL, February

The month starts with a nice sunset

and a rocket launch

The birds are enjoying the weather too

We see our friends off from Jetty Park for their cruise 

We spot their pink umbrella

They are on the Venezia, an Italian ship owned by Carnival.  We will be going on it with a good size group from here and NC in January.

Another launch from our back yard

We finally take time for a motorcycle ride 

We are headed to a lighthouse near Cape Canaveral 

We didn't find it but did find SpaceX, where we were turned around and told we had to reserve a tour of the lighthouse.

We head back to Cocoa

And stop at the waterfront park, it's quite nice

Spent the month cleaning out our front bed.  Removing the Bougainvillea that has gotten out of control as well as trimming the shrubs.

By the second week of trimming we filled 3 more yard waste cans.

Maybe next month we can have some more fun!