Jim and Darlene On the Road Again: Last week of 3 at TTO in Orlando

Last week of 3 at TTO in Orlando

Thursday December 8, 2022

Today after breakfast I went over to do walk fit. We are doing it outside all this week. They needed the ballroom to decorate and have some staff meetings.

After I walked, I go over to the produce guy. This is what I got.

Turned out I cut the watermelon and it was mushy, I told Jim I was going to go back and tell the guy. He said he's not going to do anything. Always negative. So I walked over and told him. He said bring it back. So I came back and got it, took it over in the golf cart. He said he would just give me my money back., I thought he would give me another one. But he said when he cut the sample one he noticed it was a little soft, but not as bad as the one I had. So that was nice of him, and at that point I didn't feel like cutting another watermelon again anyway. Then Jim and I went for a little walk ourselves. Then we took a golf cart ride.

Here's a picture of cranes that we saw on our golf cart ride, they're so fun to watch. I never get sick of seeing them.

Laurence of the BrazenBrits told Jim to look up the Wayward Wags. We never did get to see them. But this time we drove by, and Jim yelled Hi then he

named dropped and said Laurence told us to look you up. That got their attention. I had left our card one time we stopped. They did text us too. It never worked out..

Then we stopped over and said hi to Bonnie here's a picture of her motorhome.

Not sure what day it was, but at one point we stopped and had a visit and she insisted we stay for dinner. We had a lovely time with Andre and Francois, and they invited Peter and his mother, Connie over for dinner also. They are full timing together as she has early onset dementia.

Friday December 9, 2022

After breakfast and after I did walk fit

I got home and showered did a lot of this blog. And then Jim actually went to Lowe's and Walmart on his own. He had a small list of things. I encouraged him to go to Burger King for lunch, and I had a much-needed break and some me time. He was gone a few hours. But it went so fast.

Wrong pic of walk fit below, this is from the 12th when we were back inside.

Later Neil and Nancy had stopped, we made plans to get together tomorrow morning for breakfast in the campground restaurant.

Later we took a golf cart ride. And we saw Tammy and Doug from Canada again they were also at the Talona Ridge Huddle in Georgia with Switch It Up. We had a nice visit with them before we headed home.

Then we had dinner together and Jim went outside and had a fire.

Saturday December 10, 2022

We got ready this morning and went over to meet Neil and Nancy for breakfast. I ate my usual oatmeal

before we left.

They ate breakfast while we chatted. I went and said hi to Chef Carlos. And got a quick picture of the kitchen.

Then we walked around as a Christmas craft show that's happening today. These were outside vendors coming into the park to set up. Before I knew it they were bringing some horses and a pony in. And I had to make the big decision of whether I wanted to work today or not. Decided to sell my glitter tattoos next to the pony rides. Figured I'd have a lot of traffic with the kids there plus I got to hang out with the horses.

Did quite well today, there's a picture of a few of my customers.

These two little girls are so cute they each got two tattoos.

Then these two ladies became fast RV friends in one month they told me. And the one bought the other one a glitter tattoo for her birthday. They wanted to surprise their husbands because they were just talking about getting real tattoos all four of them the other night, so they thought this would be hilarious. We had a good laugh together and I said I wish I was there when you Reveal Your joke.

Later I got invited to do a Christmas craft show welcoming Santa. It was up the road only a few miles away across from the library in Orlando. So I decided to go. They did charge us $30 to set up. Here's a few pictures from the day we were there from 4:30 to 7:30.

Jim was my money guy did really well. Turned out to be a lot of fun.

The only bad thing was Jim spent way too much money on a crab cake sandwich from a food truck. That didn't even look good enough for me to take a bite. But he was starving. What a great day it was, made a few bucks. Haven't worked that hard in months.

Sunday December 11, 2022

Jim's former boss Lance Lightnger called a few days ago and invited us to join them for lunch and go to a farmers market Sunday afternoon in Mineola.

We met them there late morning. And as we were walking in to find them. We saw this guy training a huge dog off in the distance. It was fun to watch for a minute for me.

As we were looking for them we walked past this CBC Clermont Brewing Company and there was a little family going in side . I said hi to them and asked if there was a restaurant in there . They said there was and it was so so good . Then we met Lance and Crystal we had a lot of fun walking around. At one point the guys sat down and talked , while Crystal and I walked around .

This was cool called Quilling. New craft might check into.

We found this amazing stand that was selling micro greens that were grown hydroponic. They give you a taste and they were so amazing. They have one that tasted like cantaloupe, which later I put in a smoothie or top on a fruit salad, they also had some that tasted like really strong radishes, which Jim loves and also onion flavor, that was great in soups and salads. Then I also bought mixed greens, spent $20 there.

They said they would last for almost 2 weeks. But we ate them pretty quickly it turned out. Definitely want to buy them again.

These boats etc, was made of this old barn. Really cool.

It was a little hard for Lance because he had a lot of pain, he was having back surgery soon. We told them about the CBC. They said they never have been so we tried it out and it turned out the little family was right it was fantastic.

We had a great visit together.

great pizza oven and all the smoked meat

And the two of them took off, Jim and I did another lap all around the little town. We even walked over to Lily on the Lake found out it was closed because of the recent storm.

There was a lot of cute restaurants along here that we're still open. They were a little farther from the water line they had live music playing was so fun and festive.

As we were walking around I seen the dog that the guy was training earlier. We got to officially meet him I think he said he was about 150 lb dog and his breed was called Presa Canario, his name was Maximus. That Sure Fit him.