Travel
on March 24, 2007 at 7:47 am ×
From the Phillies game, we headed back to Clearwater Beach to catch the 5pm Dolphin Encounter cruise. They promise dolphin sightings or you get a free additional cruise. Luckily, there was no need for a 2nd outing as we saw so many jumping and playful dolphins on our 1 ΒΌ […]
Travel
on March 23, 2007 at 9:54 pm ×
Arriving just a bit before the scheduled first pitch meant a lot of game day traffic and a far away parking spot (we would have needed a shuttle bus just to get to the shuttle bus!) for the sold out contest between the hometown Phillies and the Atlanta Braves. Brett […]
Travel
on March 23, 2007 at 8:08 pm ×
We couldn’t have asked for and received a better morning for hanging out on the beach. We relaxed Gulf-side before the Phillies v. Braves game today. More posts and pics coming later as I play catch up. We have been out all day! There are, what appears to be, complimentary […]
Travel
on March 22, 2007 at 11:58 pm ×
A beautiful sunset is some of the best (and free) entertainment one can experience and we had the distinct pleasure of witnessing (and obsessively photographing) a stellar one tonight on Clearwater Beach. We stood shin deep in water, about 5 paces west of a cool little sand bar (our own […]
Travel
on March 22, 2007 at 6:11 pm ×
Our hotel has a manager’s reception/happy hour from 5:30-7 each evening (M-Thurs). Tonight was a burger and hot dog cookout, poolside. Quite good. The smell of the grill alone was enough for me, but I indulged in one of each. After the Phillies game (kissing your sister – a Spring […]
Travel
on March 22, 2007 at 3:24 pm ×
Man, it is hot! We arrived very early for the game, to get up close to the players while they were warming up and to grab a picnic table along the concourse. After 3hrs in the sun, we fled for the hotel pool (while the little one and her Mommy […]
Travel
on March 22, 2007 at 8:23 am ×
We have arrived in Florida! We all hit the beach for a couple hours yesterday afternoon and man was the water cold! There is no way it was 70 degrees, but oddly enough you get used to it after a few minutes. I forgot the camera yesterday. We checked into […]
Hodgepodge
on March 20, 2007 at 8:23 pm ×
Are websites like MySpace, along with the dearth of song-a-day blogs, making the music industry revert back to a more singles-oriented framework and serving to make music disposable? Are we as music fans developing an even shorter attention span for music because every day of the week hundreds of blogs […]