Settling in nicely

Well it's been 21/2 months now and we are finally finished buying something new just about every day.....Whoppeeeee!!!!!!! We even have an umbrella stand now(you'll get this if you have been following along..See blog for the week Liz was here)
We are now pretty well settled in. It's amazing what you can come up with in terms of "creature comforts".
We are at the gym for about 8 hrs a week. I hour of Yoga followed by(or preceded by) 1 hr of weights.
Tough sledding eh??LOL I'm down to a "fit as a fiddle" 197 lbs. And more flexible thanks to Yoga.
Aprille is down to 147 and taking a rest from shoulder and back work due to a recent muscle tear in the rhomboid. She is keeping up with her cardio and swimming.
I have put in a reverse osmosis unit (RO)so we don't have to buy water any more. We're not used to the chlorine in the water and although water is cheaper(65-89 cents a gallon) the buy back on the RO will be quick(not to mention all the recyclable jugs). We were advised by our property manager(who was a microbiology major in university) to buy bottled water.

I'm just waiting for Aprille to get ready so we can go to the pool. Today(Wed), is an off day from the gym.
We start Spanish lessons next week(for 15 weeks) at a local high school.
Aprille has found some new friends(Sandra and Krista) to do her crafts with and I have spent the past few weeks studying Blackjack and Craps. Below you'll find a sample of her handy work.

Friday night is usually date night and last night we went down to Bonita Springs and had dinner at "Flippers" at Lovers Key resort.
We'll be back. Great food and great atmosphere.We saw a whale breaching during dinner ( a Bottle or Pilot by the fluke size).

The"Bucket" you see here is 32 oz with 4 oz of different rums and fresh fruit juices. $15 dollars.Yummy!!! A treat for two. However, Pincers Bar on Macgregor, which we discovered last Friday, is even better. Same size and there's 6 oz of different rums or vodka made to your specs. That's a chemistry class I think I can excel at!!!! HaHaHa. The food at Pincers was incredible. I had the crab cocktail and Aprille had  the smoked salon.
Anyway I digress. On the way back home,we stopped at CVS to buy some wine and on the way out I had a craving for ice cream. I went back and bought a Drumstick. Let's play The Price Is Right and see if you can guess the cost of each. I'll have the answer in the next installment of the blog.

Before going home we stopped at the Parrot Key to listen to "Tattoo" a musical tribute 2 piece(guitar and bass) who are auditioning for the next season of "The Voice". We had listened to them during supper two weeks ago and we wanted a closer experience.Great nostalgia. They played "So Happy Together for us. They did a great job.Thank you and good luck to them next year.