More fun and heading to Disney

We had so much fun when Mom was here....we went to 3 shows at the Van Wezel, Hallie and Al came over from Orlando area for a 2 night visit, we went to a cool place to view manatees, awe even cooked a frozen turkey. We went to see music on Main Street in Lakewood Ranch one Saturday...there were many local places that had booths, this was a booth from Mote Marine...

This is an African lizard....yuck....they also had a snack and a huge aquarium

On bothe ends of the street were stages with different things going on all the time...this was an adult dance class ...they did several things and were very good.

This little boy and his Mother were adorable together, he did a GREAT job.

This Barbershop Quartet was amazing...we really enjoyed just sitting and listening.

On the other stage was mostly high school perfomances....ballerinas, tap dancers, singing...very nice.

It was loads of fun and the weather was perfect....there's always things happening during our winter months.

Dinner was out with friends for sushi....YUM.

On Mom's last Sunday here we went to Ophelia's on the Bay for brunch....crab legs, prime rib and mimosa's sitting on the water, does it get any better??

then we chilled on the beach for a few hours....we needed to after such a big meal.

Then we headed home to showers and some weekly leftovers for dinner if anybody was hungry.

We had one last show to attend the Music of  Duke Ellington....was very good.

Now it was time to head over to Disney...our nephew Chad was at Disney with his middle school band and was going to be playing at downtown Disney. We headed over the day before to be sure we were there and we had a great dinner at a Cajun Saefood place...the gumbo and oysters were delish.

The next morning we headed to downtown for his performance...they did a great job. Got a few shots of him walking in and on stage before the performance started.

Once the performance started the music stand hid him...bummer

A nice view of all of them....

He leaned forward in between songs...but that's about all I could get.

Somehow I messed up getting pics when they filted out, but was fun to have been there and to see him.

He headed off to EPCOT and we stayed and shopped. Had some great soup at the Earl of Sandwich and just took it slow. It was a little cool, but actually was perfect weather again. Just love living in south Florida.

We had dinner at a new place in downtown....BBQ and cajun....BBQ pork for Mom and Denny, shrimp and grits for me. Time to head back to the condo...Mom had to fly back to ATL and we were boarding the Disney Dream ship for a 3 nite cruise.....I was so excited I'm surprised I could sleep....next post.....CRUISE!!!!

Thanks for coming down and spending time with us Mom...we had a ball!!