Sunday, January 4, 2009

Dinner w/friends and Lake Okeechobee

We are getting settled in at our new home. We are getting more into a routine and enjoying the park.

Last night we met our friends from Arizona - Bud and Shelley; and Rick and Wendy. We met them at a restaurant in Sebring - the Sebring Diner. The food was really good and very reasonable. They had ate there before but we haven't been there. We talked and laughed just like old times. It was really nice to see them and catch up. Here is a couple of pictures we took:





Afterwards, we went on into Sebring since we were there and stopped a couple places - I didn't find as good as bargain as Wendy did though. But I hadn't visited the Mall so I wanted to check it out. (You know DeAnn we always have to do that!!)

Today we got up and went walking early before it got too warm. Then we came back and loaded up Brandy and we went over to Lake Okeechobee which is about 40 miles or so from here. We were a little disappointed that it didn't have as many accesses to see the lake as we thought. But we enjoyed the drive and looking at the lake, etc.



Here are a couple pictures of the lake:



Drove by a number of orange groves and lots of sod farms. Florida is so flat it is ideal for these types of farming. It must be orange picking time as we are seeing lots and lots of trucks full of the oranges. A couple of days ago we stopped at a roadside stand and bought some called "Honey Bells" and they are delicious - so juicy and sweet.


1 comment:

Queen of Retirement said...

Great pictures!! We went shopping in South Dakota. We didn't have to worry about getting too warm as it was -15 there, snowing and blowing! What is wrong with us anyway?