January Fun!

 After traveling 2800 miles back to Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan to celebrate the holidays and Rosemary's birthday we made it back to Florida!

Our celebrations were wonderful, but the peak was Dana's moms 90th!  

                                        We had over 100 of her immediate descendants there!

Here are 8 out of 9 of her children with spouses behind!

She is an amazing woman and healthy as a horse!

For my birthday Dana drove me to Anna Marie Island to an ocean front resterant and we watched the sunset!  It was a perfect evening!

Calamari!

Funniest thing we ever saw! An icecream truck on a pontoon driving down the beaches!

In Florida when the temperatures get cold the manatees swim inland to warmer spots like natural springs and the Tampa power plant!  

We take Duke with us everywhere that will allow him.  We explored nature preserves around the bays!

Our next outing was the Tampa Downs!  We didn't win big, but we had a beautiful day in the Florida sun!

There is not alot of off roading in Florida and Dana was chomping at the bits to try out our new Bronco so we drove north an hour and a half and had fun!

Notice Dana's custom doors!

Notice the rear wheel is completely off the ground!

We ride bikes and kayak as often as we can!

Of course there is a dog beach so we frequent the Fort Desota Dog beach where all dogs are off leash and run and play to thier delight and ours!

The wildlife here, expecially the birds are very interesting!

We knew Duke LOVES to jump and play frizbee and swim SOOOO we found a Dog Dock Diving Training Center near us!  Duke was amazing.  In 1 1/2 hours the trainer told us that he learned what some dogs can take weeks to learn!

This week we took a Dolphin sunset cruise out of Anna Marie Island and the dolphins and views were amazing!