Wednesday - January 29

We took Flo to the RV hospital at 7:45 to get some things fixed.   I followed behind Big Red/Flo and picked Mark up.    We left Fort Myers shortly after 9 and headed to Okeechobee.     Along the way, our friend, Butch called to tell us there had been a very bad accident near Water's Edge with 2 fatalities and the road was blocked in both lanes. 

 A large dump truck and a semi collided and saw horrific pictures online.     Oh my.....the road was not open till late this afternoon.    We were to meet several couples for lunch in Okeechobee, but they had no way to get there.    Mark and I had a delicious lunch at the Brown Cow (favorite for breakfast, lunch, ice cream, coffee, chocolates, etc.)

Then we were off to Stuart and I browsed the shops at Sewell's Point and downtown.   Mark read his I-pad and sat in the coffee shop or in the courtyard. 

It was cool and cloudy to start the day, but then warmed up with lots of sunshine.

Checked into our room at the Old Colorado Inn - love this place - stayed here January 26-28, 2016 with Linda and Vicki.    That trip we "shopped and ate till we dropped" and found out that Philip and Annette were having a baby girl in July.    End result......sweet Maeve Kathryn.     Great to have the blog to check out this stuff.

We walked to The Gafford for excellent dinner.    We shared a pear/arugula salad and I had the almond encrusted red snapper with wild rice and green beans.   Mark had Mabel's fried chicken with black dot gravy and green beans.    Everything was sooo good and then we shared creme brulee before we waddled out the door.

A very fun day but certainly thinking of those who died in that tragic accident so close to our RV friends.    We will see them tomorrow when we return to Okeechobee in the afternoon.

Tonight Luke did facetime with us - part of his homework assignment was to read a book  and we were the lucky ones to enjoy his story about a shuttle launch.