Another Rainy Day in Tampa, FL

March 27th - Cloudy 10% of rain, that fell all over our RV!!

We had decided before we went to bed last night that today would be a good day to spend in the sunshine, as the weather man stated that it would be 76 degrees with only a 10% chance of a shower, well we woke up to all overcast and that 10% of rain all over our windshield and roof.

So we had a leisure breakfast and decided we would take a drive back to Plant City and pick up some more strawberries and go to Lazy Days and look at the new RV's have lunch out.

Once we got down town, we found the traffic very light, so I snapped a few pictures as we drove through the down town area.

Modern Art Flower

I am not sure what it  is supposed to be, but it looks like a flower, that we drive around when we are in Tampa getting ready to to get onto a road to get outside of Tampa.  Can you see the street car up ahead?

Tampa would not be a city that I would enjoy driving in, but Lou tools around in the entire city like he had lived here his entire life.

Some of the buildings as we drive along.

I wish I could identify them for you

This one identifies itself

The next few pictures are from along Bay Shore Drive.  I love the drive along this area and Lou and I have talked about when the time comes and we can't drive the RV to Florida any longer that it would be nice to rent an apartment along Bay Shore Drive for four or five months of the year, as the view is just wonderful and great places to walk and enjoy the water.  We checked into the prices this year and found that most of the Condos are on a for sale basis and the ones that are for rent are just beautiful and the ones that we would want rent for approximately $3,000.00 a month for a years lease.

From this Condo you can see across to St. Petersburg.

It is hard to show the beauty of Bay Shore Drive from pictures on a rainy day, you will just have to trust me that it is beautiful.

How about the view from up there?

There is a boulevard between the streets

We found that Lazy Days had filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and at that time Camping World separated from them and moved to Dover, FL which is one exit up from their prior location.  This is where I had talked to Brian that have been such a help to us with our electrical problem.  We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch and used a gift card that Krista and Steve gave us at Christmas time and we enjoyed a turkey dinner which was delicious.  Then we drove up to Camping World and talked to a delightful salesman that showed us the new 2014 Suncruiser.  We were delighted to find that they had lowered the ceilings, making the cupboards lower, which would elevate the need for a stool every time we needed to get into a cupboard.  Other than that nothing much had changed.  We picked up a few items that we needed in the store and got a griddle for our outside grill making clean up a little easier.

We were then off to Parksdale for a strawberry milkshake, this time we didn't have to stand in line, like last time.  We decided we would drink them in the car, as it was cold today and we both had to wear jackets and we still wanted to buy strawberries from a stand up the road, and what a surprise that was, we purchased a whole flat of berries for $5.99.  When we were up two weeks ago they were $8.99.  So guess I will make another pie.  Lou and I eat strawberries three times a day while we are here and the fresh tomatoes also.

We got back to the base at 6:30, in time for Lou to go the the Six Store and for me to go to the PX.  I needed to pick up some lipstick and nail polish. We also needed to go to the commissary, but they close at 7:00, so will have to do that tomorrow.  80% of rain tomorrow!!