Sarasota FL
Our friend Jan comes down to St. Petersburg every year about this time for the Silver Threads conference. We had forgotten all about that, so her email inviting us to lunch took us by surprise. We drove up to see her today; it’s about an hour’s trip. It was a pretty drive with lots of bridges and water. On the drawbridge to St. Pete, I saw an osprey, a bald eagle, and a second osprey, all sitting on adjacent lamp posts.
As soon as we walked into the hotel where Silver Threads was being held, we were greeted by other women attending the conference. Although we knew none of them, they were all friendly and welcoming to us. Lunch with Jan was wonderful! It was so good to see a familiar face and talk about Pittsburgh. Afterwards, we went in search of a bookstore Jan liked. The bookstore had closed, but we found ice cream on the way back. We were so taken with the hospitality and friendliness of all these women we decided to register for the conference and stay in St. Pete for the long weekend.
Kelly made a mad dash back to Sarasota to bring us clean clothes and keep a theatre promise to her mother. I settled into our hotel room to enjoy Law & Order reruns and the sounds of the surf until Kelly returned.
Our friend Jan comes down to St. Petersburg every year about this time for the Silver Threads conference. We had forgotten all about that, so her email inviting us to lunch took us by surprise. We drove up to see her today; it’s about an hour’s trip. It was a pretty drive with lots of bridges and water. On the drawbridge to St. Pete, I saw an osprey, a bald eagle, and a second osprey, all sitting on adjacent lamp posts.
As soon as we walked into the hotel where Silver Threads was being held, we were greeted by other women attending the conference. Although we knew none of them, they were all friendly and welcoming to us. Lunch with Jan was wonderful! It was so good to see a familiar face and talk about Pittsburgh. Afterwards, we went in search of a bookstore Jan liked. The bookstore had closed, but we found ice cream on the way back. We were so taken with the hospitality and friendliness of all these women we decided to register for the conference and stay in St. Pete for the long weekend.
Kelly made a mad dash back to Sarasota to bring us clean clothes and keep a theatre promise to her mother. I settled into our hotel room to enjoy Law & Order reruns and the sounds of the surf until Kelly returned.
Sounds awesome. It's those unexpected trips that are the best. It seems that the stuff we plan exstensively for never turn out the way we want. Perhaps it's because reality never really meets our outlandish expectations.
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