Tuus Dec 28th

I woke up at 11am, What? I know! 11am...I think I was in a coma. I had to re cooperate from my trip to moms. I came out of the bedroom and Bonnie and Denae were out on the patio drinking coffee. I grabbed a cup and wandered out to the 65 degree morning....AHHH, now I remember why we love it down here! And this is a cold snap, tomorrow is going to be mid 70s, then back to the 80's. I got showered and Bonnie and I had to run down to the goodwill to find a larger suitcase for Denae. She had acquired more than she came with and could not get her stuff into her smaller suitcase. We found one, returned home and waited while Denae packed the rest of her stuff.

Denea, getting ready to leave paradise

 It was around 1pm and we had to get to the airport by 3 so we took off to grab some lunch. We drove down to Ft Lauderdale to a tiki cafe called Bamboo Bay we had one of our coupons for. We went in and got a table in the back.

Waiting for lunch

view from the table

We had ordered our lunch and were waiting for it to be brought out when some people walked in and sat down at the table right next to us. I looked over and (WOW) it was Dennis Rodman. Seriously! I said "Dennis" He turned and looked at me but did not respond. I then said "you are Dennis Rodman, aren't you?"
He nodded. I grabbed my camera, Much to the horror of Denae, who did not want us to mob him. I asked "do you mind if I get a picture?" which he responded with a Universal gesture which needed no words that he did not want his picture taken. I put my camera down in dismay, and then got chewed out by Denae about proper etiquette around celebrities.  We got our food and while eating they started playing music on the jukebox, which was directly behind our table.As a matter of fact I could play it from my chair. Theirr table was 3 ft from ours. I was unable to eat as Dennis kept looking at me the whole while I was eating, making me feel weird. All of a sudden he grabbed Bonnie by the shoulder and said "Come on, you want to party" while dancing in his chair. I said "get your hand off my wife, bitch"....No I didn't really say that. LOL She made some small talk and returned to eating. They made some comment about getting a buzz off the Heineken's they were drinking, (Aaron, that's your beer) We finished eating and paid our bill. As we started out Bonnie turned around, walked up to Dennis and grabbed his shoulder. You should have seen him jump, It made me laugh out loud. She said "It was nice eating lunch with you" to which he said "my pleasure dear".

The jukebox behind us, and Rodman's table to the right

It was a cool experience. Although I was still hungry. We drove to the airport,dropped off Denea, and returned home to heat up the doggy bag I got from the cafe. After that we just hung out at the condo watching TV and dozing on and off. That was it from paradise  on Tues Dec 28th