Great Friends

Weather: Hot! temp range 70 – 88o; SW @ 10 – 20 knots; Very humid; mostly sunny

Comment: Great News – we’re having breakfast with our great friends Pat and George. Since they moved to Pennsylvania, we don’t get to see them nearly enough! We enjoyed catching up on their activities while eating at a nice little restaurant on the beach. Following breakfast, we went to the Indian River County library to update logs but we couldn’t get connected.

After bidding farewell to our friends, Anna Marie and I walked back to the ocean and walked the length of the boardwalk two times (about ¾ mile) and then followed the sidewalk to town where we strolled the shopping district, stopped to sip a sarsaparilla and continued our walk back to the marina. All told we probably walked about four miles.

We scored tickets to “Smokey Joe’s Café” at the Riverside Theatre complex. In addition to the main stage, this complex boasts an intimate theatre where another play is running and a children’s theater.

“Smokey Joe’s Café” was a fun production featuring the songs of Leiber and Stoller (Charlie Brown, Yakety Yak, Dance with Me, Kansas City, On Broadway, Hound Dog, There Goes My Baby, Love Potion #9, Jailhouse Rock, Stand By Me, among others).

Our experimental meal of the night was an off brand Chicken and Dumplings. It was passable at best. We both thought it tasted like an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat - the new version of K-Rations). We could use this meal as a diversion, but it won’t be a mainstay of our provisioning.