Sunday Feb 13th

We slept in, not planning on doing much today. Around 11AM we left to run to the store to get ink for our printer. We picked up this HP 130 at a garage sale for 5 bucks. It is a mini printer just to print 4 x 6 pictures.

The ink cartridge cost 40 bucks. What? Yup...40 bucks. I think I will check e-bay...anyways we were wandering with no particular place to go when we saw the sacred "garage sale" sign! We followed the signs, not knowing if they were rejects from yesterday or if there was actually a garage sale. I am pleased to tell you it was a garage sale and it was operational.

Garage Sale!

The lady running the sale is a retired lawyer, and she spends most of her time traveling the world. Kinda reminded me of a female Golby. After we left that sale we passed a house that had a shark sticking out of the side of their house... I had to take a picture of it.

See the Great White?

It was 1:30 by then, and we were getting hungry. We decided to use one of our south Florida dines coupons, so we headed toward Ft lauderdale Beach.

We were Down by the beach when we passed another garage sale sign. This one was at a little resort across the street from the beach.

Another garage sale!

We found a handmade quilt for 5 bucks so we picked it up. My mother sold a handmade quilt on e-bay for 80 bucks, so we shall see. I didn't have any cash so Bonnie stayed at the sale looking around while I took of searching for an ATM. I found one about a mile down A1A at a 7-11. I got back on A1A headed north and the traffic was at a stop. It took me 30 minutes to get back to the sale and I figured Bonnie was probably wondering what happened to me. She wasn't..The sale was in multiple rooms as well as out in the courtyard, so she was in seventh heaven. She showed me a few things she liked, we paid and headed the final 4 blocks to Lulu's Bait Shack, where we planned on eating. We got parked at The Beach Place parking garage, which was $3 for the first hour. I wondered what the parking was going to cost? We took the elevator to the 2nd floor, because the sign in the elevator said that was where Lulu's was at. When the elevator doors opened we saw the mall was an open air mall. With several restaurants on the end that faces the ocean. On the north side was Lulu's and at the south end was The Big Kahunas. We had coupons for both. We went to Lulu's to get a table and we were told it would be 30 minutes. It was packed. The whole mall was packed. It is right across the street from one of the busiest beaches in south Florida. I forgot to mention there were about 4 bars in there as well and they were all packed. We were starved so we walked down to The Big Kahunas and much to our dismay, were told it would be a 20 minute wait. If we would take an indoor table we could have been seated right away, but we wanted the open air, beach view access, so we waited.

Waiting..for a girl like you

After about 10 minutes we were seated. We ordered some drinks and I ordered the Hawaiian pizza and Bonnie ordered the Dolphin sandwich and a salad.

Who is this handsome devil? A movie star?

The food was good, but it was a bit chilly sitting out in the shade with the ocean breeze. It only got up to 71 here today. I heard it was warmer in Des Moines. Ok almost... I took a couple of pics of the view up there. It was on the 3rd floor...

Failed attempt at a self photo

View from the dinner table

On our way back to the car we saw a bunch of people watching something in center court so we wandered in to take a closer look. It was this artist making paintings with spray paint cans....and he was awesome.
I took this video, I hope it shows his talent..

It was 5:40 in the eve by the time we got to the car and I was curious how much this was gonna cost us to get our car back. It was 8 bucks. Well the view was nice. We headed for home because the Grammies were on tonight and my wife loves the Grammies. And every other award show ever put on TV. That was the extent of our day down here in paradise. Hope yours was great as well!