The Big 8 - 0 for Ernie

Yesterday we attended a small party for Ernie Nolin's 80th birthday. Carol and I, plus Gus and Marylin and Ernie''s family had a gathering at his home to celebrate the occasion.

Chinese cuisine was brought in for dinner and was quite good and certainly plentiful. Of course there was the cake, without 80 candles but with two on the numbers of "8" and "0". We didn't want to have a major fire with 80 candles!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY , Ernie and many nore.

Limo Trip To the Sandy Parrot

On Thursday one of the entertainers we enjoy, Kim Jenkins,  was playing at the Sandy Parrot in Fr Myers. He had arranged for limo style buses to take a number of his fans to listen and dance to his music

Here is Carol, Gus and Marilyn in the limo waiting to depart Englewood. We had a total of 21 in the limo and a number of them made it a real party on the way to the Sandy Parrot. A second limo left from another location and there were about 60 in total that went.

The Sandy Parrot is a large Tiki Hut that is open to the outside. They also had a section that was not a Tiki Hut and it was also open to the outside. They had a lot fans going so it was reasonably cool.


The patrons at the Sandy Parrot, and a lot of the bus group, were a real party bunch and Kim payed to their tastes. It seemed their tastes were mostly the 70's and 80's fast music so we did not get many numbers that we danced to. The food was quite good but later in the evening some smokers starting firing up one cigarette after another and we were in the draft that got most of the smoke!!
We all got back on the limos about 9:45 and it was 11 PM by the time we got home. It was a good time but it is doubtful we will go back to the Sandy Parrot.

Mother's Day

Rather than trying to find a restaurant that was not crowded on Mother's Day, Jim decided to cook something special for Carol. We started with shrimp cocktails and champagne.

Of course it was hard to keep the main course a secret from Carol. Jim did keep everything well hidden but she is too smart and suspected it was going to be one of her favorites, Caribbean Lobster tail.  And it was, along with asparagus and baked sweet potato.

Jim was not about to allow  Carol to have all of that tail, so we split it. Since it was nearly a full pound there was plenty of it for both.  It was a quiet Mother's Day but very enjoyable.