Saturday, March 19, 2011

My Fill of Frogs Legs


It’s been a great week. Last weekend we stayed at our friends, Donna and Pete, again. Saturday, Donna took us to Homosassa Springs State Park. What a beautiful place. We took the courtesy tram to the entrance and returned via the boat ride. It was a nice boardwalk trail peppered with park benches. As we walked thru, we saw all sorts of animals native to Florida. All, except Lu the hippo. He was “grandfathered in” because he’s been there so long. It was a cool day, so the animals were very active which was nice to see. The pink flamingo’s even put on a parade for us, walking single file along the stream.



Monday, we left Donna’s and made the short trip to Wildwood, Fl to stay for a few weeks at Three Flags RV Resort. It is one of the resort parks in our contract where we can stay for three weeks for free. They have about 200 sites, a nice pool, game room, laundry facilities (for Len to use). A nice quiet park which we like. The sites are large, level and mostly pull-thru’s so we don’t have to worry about backing into a site.



While we were here, we drove up to “The Villages”. The best I can describe this place is an all-in-one place to live. There are numerous “villages” all connected. They have food stores, banks, clothing stores, restaurants, fast food, churches, medical facilities, etc. all via roads specifically for golf carts. When driving around, you are sharing the road with cars, golf carts (decked out nicer than some cars I’ve seen), and tri-cycles. At major intersections where golf carts are not allowed, they have tunnels. It’s pretty cool if you ask me. We stopped at a self- serve frozen yogurt place there called High Five Your Life. When you go inside they have cups or waffle cones to choose from, then you choose which flavor or flavors of frozen yogurt you want. The nice part is if you’re not a big fan of ice cream/frozen yogurt you only add a little to your cup. Then you have toppings of all sorts. And they had outdoor seating. We made our sundae’s and went outside to enjoy them.



Friday night, we went to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet at The Speckled Butter Bean. Like I’ve said before, we left the “diner state” and are enjoying the “buffet state”. While in Orlando, we went to a lot of buffets but really enjoyed The Golden Coral the most. Well, we found a better buffet. This place has excellent home made food, even the mashed potatoes. I especially enjoyed the frogs legs and baked striped bass. Yes, frogs legs do taste like chicken with a lot less meat on the legs. On Wednesday’s their breakfast buffet is buy one, get one half price, so for about $7.50, guess where we’re going?





Enjoy the slide show and thanks for traveling along with us on The Thomas’ Trails…until next time.

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