Tampa day 1

We made it to Tampa and drove to my mom's in clearwater. We had dinner, argue about Glee and Politics. After dinner my Mom told says "turn on the game I want to see how my boys are doing." Next to TV there is a notebook of all the games so far, she keeps track of each game the score and winning pitcher.


Notice the scheduled pitchers for the upcoming games. Dedicated or crazy?

Mom was really excited to introduce me to her friends so we head down to the pool. As we walk out into the hallway we met Gloria, Annie and Sully. All older then my Mom by about 10-20 years and all have heard about me. It was walking into a hallway of Grandmothers I never had. We got the requisite questions about our flight and none of them bat an eye when Mel is introduced as my girlfriend, and we are all holding noodles for the pool.
Appearently the space station is in our atmosphere and you can see it, so we are all in the pool area with about 8-10 senior citizens looking up at the sky. There are lots of "hahs?", "what did you say?", "is that it, nope, that is a star". To quote my Mom "This is like a scene from Cacoon". I could not have said it better myself. THEN this gem walked into pool area.




This is Marie with her cat Vincent, who clearly did not want to be on a leash, he was shedding up a storm, but according to Marie, he needs exercise as she was dragging him around. It was surreal and Mom's friend Gloria who is 84 years young was married for 66 years, and hilarious, agreed. Also, Marie mistook Melanie for my daughter.



More adventures to come I am sure.

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