Cocoa Beach

We headed to Cocoa Beach for 2 nights as a Birthday gift from Gary after dropping off Marilyn and Fred off at the airport.

Beach is right across the street from our hotel.  Gary and I walked for a mile on the beach today!!!

 

My awesome husband got me this cute teddy bear!!!  Love you, honey!

 

This was our view from our balcony

This was our suite....living room with bedroom at the back with balcony

Went to Cocoa Beach Pier for dinner at Pelican's Pub

View of Cocoa Beach, our hotel is a mile down the beach!!

 

This was the sign outside the restaurant on the boardwalk!!  Thought it was pretty funny!!

This drink was called Russian Monkey(chocolate syrup, Kahlua, Russian Vodka, banana liqueur and milk).....very yummy!!

 

A great end to the final day of my birthday celebrations!!  Love you, honey!

 

Disney ship leaving Port Canaveral!!  Pretty cool!!  Looks like it is in the sand!!!

 

 

Awwww!!!  Now at sea!!!  Seen it all from the pier!!

 

The perfect end to a wonderful 2 days!!  Champagne and Key Lime Pie!!  I am so thankful for my wonderful family and good friends!!  Life is good!! I am truly blessed!! My nook cover has a saying by Hans Christian Anderson Quote "Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale"

Great week with Fred and Marilyn...Got to celebrate my 65th!!

It was great celebrating my birthday with our best friends, Marilyn and Fred.  The week went by too quickly!!!  We will miss them!!!

 

Fred favourite time of the day, feeding the ducks!!!

 

 

Had a dinner get-together with our friends.  As you can see, the chef was entertaining!!!

 

Great group of friends here with our best friends!!  Had a great time

 

 

 

Here are the rest of the group!!!  Great fun and great friends!!

Took Fred and Marilyn to Apollo Beach to see the Manatee's!!

 

 

This one flipped on this back!!!  So cute!!!

 

There was quite a few in the cove....Such gentle giants!!!

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Took Marilyn and Fred over to pick some oranges!!!!  They were delicious!!

Went to Chili's last night for dinner....great meal!!!  Will miss Fred and Marilyn!!!

Marilyn got me an awesome birthday cake!!!  Great end to a great day!!

Here is the video with Fred feeding the ducks!!!  He loved doing it!!

 

 

Marilyn and Fred's Visit!!! Having a great time!!

We were so looking forward to seeing Fred and Marilyn.   Having a great time.   This pic was taken at Sunny Isles outside the Peppermill Restaurant.

 

 

                                                                       Handsome couple!!!

How bad does Gary love to torment Marilyn!!!!  Well look and see!!!  Hahaha!!  Can you tell by the look on her face!!

 

He never cut his hair since we left so he could Marilyn to scream at him!!

Even got to put it in a ponytail!!!!  Stay calm everyone!!!  I cut it off after we got back to the motorhome!!!  Hahahaha!!!

We drove yesterday to Ft Lauderdale stayed at the Cambria Suites .  We had dinner at Peppermill Restaurant in Sunny Isles where Angelo works.  I have known Angelo Reinoso from Breezes Varadero about 19 years.  He is a special person and friend.  When we knew he moved to Miami and we decided to surprise him.  What a surprise!!!  Lots of hugs and kisses going around!!!   Had a great meal and a great time!!!

Taken outside the Peppermill Restaurant with the interwaterways in background!!!   What a beautiful night!!

 

Stopped by on our way home to visit with Gail and Clay Tucker.  Love the area and thanks to Gail and Clay we had an excellent lunch. Great visit!!

 

 

Great end to a awesome weekend!!!  Happy hour with our friends at the campground!!!  Balmy 77C!!!   Awwwww!!!

Florida Aquarium---A must See!!

This was my favourite picture I took at the aquarium.   Love this pic!!!

 

Thanks to Dallas and Gretchen for taking us.  It was amazing.  A must-see for Tampa!!

 

Love the colors of the fish!!

 

Love this!!  The turtle is laying his head on his pal!! 

 
It was amazing see live seahorses!!  Honestly, didn't think they were real!!

 
Stingrays and you can pet them!!!  Really Cool!!

Living coral fauna and starfish!!  We even got to touch them!!

This is called a dragon and it is alive!!!!!!

 

 
This is so cool!!  The seahorse is hooked on the tail of an eel!!

 These are very colorful eels!!

                                                            
                                Jellyfish!!!  Enough said though very pretty!!!     

Nemo and Dory!!!!!  Love that movie!!

 

                                                 Love the orange coral and the pink fish!!!  The colors!!

                                   The penguin show!!  Ben loved it!!

                          This is amazing!!  It is called leaf dragon or seahorse!!

Had a great visit with Dallas, Gretchen and Ben

 

Had an awesome visit from Dallas, Gretchen and Ben.  They did spend 3 nights at Disney.  Ben is getting so tall not a little boy anymore .

 

Papa and Ben feeding the ducks.   They were eating out of his hand!!

 

Ben loved the pool.  We had a great time!!

 

 

Awesome time at the Florida Aquarium!!

 

Look at that face!!!  So excited to be close to a penguin!!!!

 

Playing beanbag it was such fun!!

Grammie had fun cuddling with Ben.   We got to watch Frozen movie last night!!!  Loved the movie!!  It was sad to see them leave this morning.  What a great time!!!