Is that a lobster or is that your nose?

Another gorgeous day on the river! It is simply sparkling with only a few smaller boats dotting the water at present. Certainly as the day gets older we will see more activity but for now, it is 'shhhhh'.....Yesterday afternoon I caught a glimpse, and a photo, of a manatee outside my window. The manatee is just barely visible above the water, in front of the concrete barriers.

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Soon I will be donning my swimwear and heading to the pool for water aerobics, today using the dumb bells for the workout. No comment, please....Wait, I take that back---I want comments!!! We have a smaller number in our group this season most likely due to the time of day it is being conducted, right in the middle of a working person's day! For those of us not employed, it is perfect timing.

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Tuesday Ellen and I enjoyed poolside dining courtesy of The Club, who had waiters deliver food to us when we called in our order. Another lady used my phone to order a cold beer for herself. That's what they get for not having the cabana open week days! Last night Ellen and I went to The Club for appetizers and refreshments, and found the place swarming with people. Randy, one of the men in our aerobics class, served as our unofficial host. He kept wanting me to sing with the piano player but that was out of the question---really. After all, people were trying to eat!

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Ellen said she would not mind having dinner there, since the appetizers were meager, so the hostess got us a table. Once seated, the waiter handed us a single piece of paper for the menu, which included nothing but lobster! The entire lobster!! Well, neither of us wanted that (thank you, Ellen!!!) so we were quite embarrassed and asked to have ourselves excused, after having only unfolded the napkins at the table. The hostess was most gracious about the whole event and we tippy toed out the side door....Randy walked with us, as his wife was at the pool doing her laps. She still works so can't come to class with us in the a.m. Ellen made us all chuckle when she said, "I've been kicked out of nicer places....", as though we were shown the door. Guess we will have to read our Club newsletter a bit more closely from now on!