Day 181-189
On March 12 my brother Dave and his wife Terri joined us at Fort Myers Beach for a week on the boat and to visit the area. We spent a few days watching the sunsets, enjoying the beach and seeing some of the area attractions. That is Dave and Terri below with the sun setting between them.
One evening we joined a boating neighbor at our marina at Bonita Bills Waterfront Cafe for dinner and live music. This is a bar with great prices on food and live music every night. Sharon and I had a pound of the steamed pink gulf shrimp and fried onion rings. We also had a pitcher of beer which was served with a baggie of ice meant to be dropped in the pitcher to keep the beer cold after pouring the first couple of glasses. That's the first time I have seen that, but it worked!
In the below photograph from Bonita Bills is our boating neighbor Scott in the center, Sharon on the left, and Dave and Terri on the right. Scott is a very interesting guy. He bought his boat just a few months ago and is living aboard. He has never been a boater and is still learning the ropes, but he and his wife had dreamed of living on a boat before she was taken by ALS, so now Scott is doing it alone. Scott is a writer and has credits on TV shows and movies from the 70's and 80s including" M.A.S.H" and "Beretta." He got involved with political writing in Missouri to pay the bills after that but has recently begun submitting scripts again for TV shows. He has had scripts accepted this year for "The Big Bang Theory", "Blue Bloods", and "NCIS New Orleans" all of which should be produced in the next season of the shows. He told us that he based the bar in his script for "NCIS New Orleans" on Bonita Bills in Fort Myers Beach where we had dinner with him.
We visited "Times Square" in Fort Myers Beach several times.
One night we went to the Pinchers Tiki Bar near our marina and drank "two for one" Margaritas and played dominoes for hours.
On the 17th of March, Dave and I moved the boat from Fort Myers Beach to Fort Myers. Sharon and Terri drove the car to Fort Myers, visiting local shopping attractions along the way. The City of Fort Meyers was apparently so glad to see us that they threw a huge street festival. Strangely everyone there was wearing green clothes and costumes and drinking green beer. Many people also kept talking about someone named Patrick. I never did get to meet Patrick. I did have some green beer and corned beef and cabbage for dinner.
Around downtown Fort Myers there are a number of sculptures, this one is of a dog and a man peeing on the same lamp post. OK.
Sharon got to meet and talk to Jesus.
Sharon insisted that I take a picture of this guy. I probably should have taken it from the rear as many of the women seemed very interested in the tights he was wearing.
Sharon also insisted that I take this picture of a typical Irish lassie.
The city brought in a number of bands which were scattered around the downtown area to celebrate our arrival. As if the first night was not enough, on the second night we were there the city threw another block party with various bands scattered around the city. There were not nearly as many green clothes or green beer, but it was still fun. It was quite a welcome!
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