Warm, Sunny Day Today!

  We got up about 8:30 this morning.  It was already sunny and fairly warm...and no wind!!  John made eggs sandwiches for breakfast.  His hip is still bothering him, and he was up twice during the night.  But he thought it might help if he took a short walk and kept it stretched out.  While he walked I worked on yesterday's blog.  When he got back we changed into our bathing suits so we could go to the pool.  Bonnie called to let me know that she had called Dad.  The cellulitis is much better and he has regained a lot of energy that the infection had zapped out of him.  Praise the Lord!!  She also said that she and Ken and Melissa and Chuck and Ernie and Noella were all planning to go to Manasota beach tomorrow and invited us to join them.  We already had plans to go there, so it will work out great!  It will be wonderful to see everyone again!  We walked down to the pool and surprisingly it wasn't as full as we thought it would be.  Oh, boy, was the sun ever hot!!  Every little breeze or cloud that came along was greatly welcomed.  Of course, we could get in the pool to cool off, but the heater wasn't working and it was cold.  Now here's the thing I don't understand.  When we go to the pool at home during the summer it is not heated!!  How come when we go to Florida we don't want to get in an unheated pool?  Oh, we are spoiled now, aren't we!!  John left at 2:30 so he could take a nap on the bed.  I stayed till 3:00 so I could get back to get ready for our dinner and show plans with Rhonda and Kevin at Overtime in Cape Coral.  We left about 4:15.  I talked with Joyce from our small group for about 20 minutes and then we met Rhonda and Kevin at 5:00.  Rhonda had made reservations for the 5:00 show and we had FRONT ROW seats.  The entertainment was a couple called The Gatlins.  They both had incredible voices!!  They did cover songs and impersonations of other singers.  At one point in the show they asked every table (about 20 of them) to give them the name of their favorite singer and they put together an arrangement of all of them.  He sang everything from Sinatra to Queen to Willie Nelson to Elton John.  She sang everything from Linda Ronstadt to Celine Dion to Christina Aguilera to Patsy Kline.  The highlight of the evening for me was when she sang "Think of Me" from Phanton of the Opera and "The Prayer", Andre Bouchelli (sp?) style.  She was absolutely amazing!!  The food was good, too. 

He sang Elvis's "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You"
to this lady that was celebrating her 90th birthday.

 

She can sing ANYTHING!!

 

The Gatlins were very talented and entertaining!!

Kevin and I had the prime rib special, Rhonda had a burger and John had a triple decker club sandwich.  It was huge.  He could only eat half of it.

Looks good, huh!?!

  We left at 7:15 and headed home so I could watch the first night of "The Voice".  John read his book.  There are already some really good singers on the show.  And those judges just crack me up!!  I also flipped back to "The Bachelor" a few times.  Guess what...he's in love with both of the last 2 women.  Whatever will he do??  John went to bed about 9:30.  I worked on the blog until 11:00 and then went to bed.