I previously signed up for a series of 5K races, but with my foot I will not be running again anytime soon, so Richard and I decided to walk the race (which was still maybe a bit too much for my foot).
They had 3 bands throughout the course and you voted at the end for the best band… to be honest they were all pretty bad.
At the end of the race you did get a beer and the finish line was by a beautiful lake. Not a bad way to start your Saturday!
We went to a cooking demo/class on Saturday night. It was different as it paired each course with a different beer. It was a nice night out!
Yesterday we decided to take a morning tour of Winter Park via boat with a company called Scenic Boat Tours. They are a great little tour company that has been giving tours in Winter Park for 80 years. We will definitely be doing the tour again!
I had completely forgot I had this old video of Avery and Yabbey meeting for the first time!
I thought I would share a few photos of our new place in Winter Park- I am really starting to get use to it. We just need some furniture and a few kitties and it will be home. It is a bit high tech as we don’t even have a key for our front door, but open in with an app!
On the first floor is the game room along with a TV room. In the game room they do wine tastings, trivia nights and other events for the residents. There is also a fridge stocked with soda and a coffee/tea bar open 24 hours a day.
If you head out from there you get to the pool area. They have a BBQ grill, fire pit, fire place, ping pong table, hammocks and a pool of course.
On the second floor they have 3 gym areas, cool towels for you after your workout, a board room and a computer room.
On the 5th floor we have a roof top patio that is really cool at night with all the lights on.
Probably the coolest part is the mail room (which is called the library). They have amazon lockers, some other lockers for your dry cleaning and mailboxes. It even has 2 flat screen TVs- quite the mailroom!
Last night I joined the Orlando Running Club for a 5k run followed by pizza at the Mellow Mushroom. I had never heard of the Mellow Mushroom pizza chain and I have to say the pizza was amazing!
The run was not great… but I have to start someplace!
Yesterday was the big day for Avery and Ziggy to travel to the US. They even had their nails in red, white and blue. We got them in their harnesses, got Ziggy a bit drugged up and headed to the airport. We had a checked back full of their beds, toys and treats… they were ready to go.
Unfortunately, they were not allowed to fly as there were problems with the paperwork. We were missing the export approval from the Department of Agriculture. So, Richard loaded them back up in the car and took them home. Ziggy was slept off his medicine most of the day while I made the trip back to the US without them.
We are going to try again in a few weeks and hopefully they will be able to make the move to the US!
Tonight I made a salad with some local squash to put on top of my local lettuce I got at the farmers market.
The couscous dressing was really nice- some lemon zest and juice, honey, olive oil and garlic.
I have been reading up on Winter Park and found a few facts:
This morning I went down to the local farmers market. I have to say I was a bit disappointed as most the food was bought at the market and not locally grown. I did find one stall with local grown produce and got a few items.
Unfortunately they are at the end of their season, so will be gone until September/October.
The Johnsons 