Meanderings for a Monday

Didn’t get to write on Friday because we were out of town.

Went to Tampa for a couple of days to celebrate our anniversary and Terry’s birthday.

Terry and I met in Tampa. Here’s everyone that was at our wedding 27 years ago…

wedding party

I think that photo is pretty cool. The kid in the red shirt is Darin, Terry’s son. The other two kids are mine. Alan and Jessica. That’s my niece Michelle with the big hair and my sister the artist is next to her. My friend Bonny, third from the left and my mom, third from the right, have both passed away. I still hang with the two women on the left–Donna and Yvonne.

Anyhow, we went to Tampa to celebrate. Stayed on the RiverWalk. The city has changed SO much since we lived there.

Here we are at the hotel bar right after we checked in. Guess we have changed as much as the city!

Sheraton Hotel on Riverwalk

While there, we witnessed two weddings. We weren’t invited, we just happened to be in the same location.

Ulele
Wedding at Ulele
wedding at Sheraton
Wedding at the hotel. The men in the wedding party arrived on a boat. The women came out to the boat when it arrived and followed along behind after the men disembarked.

Here’s the view from our room.

the view

We walked A LOT! Here’s the University of Tampa at night.

University of Tampa

We had our anniversary dinner at Ulele’s. The food was good but pricey. And the noise in the restaurant was unbelievable. Not exactly a romantic dinner. I told Terry that he owes me a nice quiet romantic dinner at Vintage on 5th.

Here’s Princess Ulele. Her story is the same as Pocohantas and John Smith.

ulele

Terry’s kids live in Tampa so we met them at Armature Works for dinner for his birthday. I don’t have any pics. But–really–they were there!

Armature Works is a bunch of restaurants in one building. We went to Steelbach. Also incredibly noisy. And expensive. The place was PACKED. Just like Ulele’s was the night before.

When we lived in Tampa that part was rather seedy. No way would we have wanted to go there–we definetly wouldn’t have been walking there after dark! Now it’s almost Disneylike and a hang out for the young and beautiful. Lots of people with babies and/or pets.

We went on the Pirate Adventure Water Taxi. Here’s one snap from that trip. This is supposed to depict Mangrove roots.

We had a great time. It was nice to get away and to see how Tampa is changing with the times.

But we were really happy to get home.

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