OK…..yes I am a little (a lot) behind – but I am on a vacation and doing this to motivate the boys! Wait….at really isn’t helping my case, is it!?! In any case, we haven’t been sitting on our butts doing nothing – we have been busy! My back and ankle can attest to that. Dan, are you reading? I will be in after break!

To show how tired I am, I just published the first paragraph instead of saving it – while I was trying to connect the keyboard that I have – which apparently not only isn’t paired with my iPad but isn’t charged. Whoops. The fatigue is for another post….let’s just say it was a long day and I saw a scooter traffic jam in a gazebo. It was priceless.

As I was starting to say, we took a boat ride on the Cotee River. This was exciting because it is something that we had never done before. After three of us coming down here for over 35 years  (which is amazing considering how young I am) and add the other three coming down for 12 years, to find something new is exciting!! This ride went out of Port Richey and went down the Pithlaschascotee River. Yup. The Cotee River. We went into The Gulf for a bit, too, and saw the really cool stilt houses that I never knew about.

We also found out that the area was popular with movie stars. Seriously. We saw where Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, June and Johnny Cash, Esther Williams, Gloria Swanson (original from Sunset Boulevard), and Kenny Rogers lived. Of course the boys knew Kenny Rogers from the Geico commercial but were kind of clueless on the others.

The stilt houses were cool. They started as places for fishermen to go and stay on weekends rather than going back and forth. Now, they are pretty much party houses! Some have Direct TV and some have generators. Some are still primitive. One of the boat dudes explained the whole tax and ownership part but I tuned out. The captain was…..interesting. At first you would have thought he had stopped for something on the way in. But then when you hear his story (retired fireman and worked at a nuclear plant) you get that he is just totally laid back and enjoying life. The other guy was really good and easier to understand! Ha ha!

I honestly don’t remember what else we did that day – sad, I know. Hey….you travel with the boys and tell me how well YOU do!