Cold, Cold and more Cold

It cannot warm up here in Florida. This is where we are staying. It is a really nice place and we are enjoying it here. Today we saw some wild Parakeets in our park, as you can see from the pictures. We are right beside a lake and there are a lot of water birds in the area.

We are wearing jackets and sweaters, during the day and evening. I took the picture of Wilbur beside the swimming pool, "a very nice quiet pool", to give you a idea of how warm we have been dressing.

The Fruit at the right are lemons from my cousins tree. Yum Yum

The beach picture is from Siesta Key from cousin Ervin and Erma's balcony. It was very windy but still pretty.

We finally left home on the 11th, with snow falling. We had a wonderful sendoff by our family. Our oldest and husband hosted a breakfast of great food for us and all our kids before we left.
We have been in Sarasota since Wednesday the 14th. There has been a real cold spell (the locals say it rare) but its warm compared to the the -22 that we missed at home. It warms up during the day but its jacket weather at night.
Tonight we are going to be with our Slabach cousins. There will 18 plus, some of them live here, but most are vacationing. We will be from Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa and Florida.
We spent yesterday with Stan and Diane, Wilbur's brother. It was good to get reaquainted again. It has been several years since we have seen each other. We enjoyed seafood at noon and we had pizza at our "house" in the evening.
We have been enjoying fresh strawberries, oranges and lemons.
The internet is so slow this morning and I am having trouble adding pictures. But I will post some soon to show some local sites.