Tampa Revisited...

Well, we arrived here back in Tampa last Thursday evening and the first thing we did was spend all day Friday at Busch Gardens, riding roller coasters, eating and enjoying the Florida sunshine. Andre still had free tickets good through the end of the year from his last year's gig working at the park, so we decided to celebrate our arrival with a day of fun (because you know we've had no fun at all over the last 6 months). That's sarcasm, by the way, for those of you not from the Northeast.

Anyway, we had a great day at the park and it was nice introduction back to the area. One of the things we most enjoy about Busch Gardens in Tampa are all the amazing animals. Because we were there on Halloween, many of the animals had been given pumpkins to play with, eat, etc.  This gang of Meerkats was extremely entertaining to watch!

 

After the park on Friday, we spent Halloween evening enjoying some fine beer at the nearby Cigar City Brewery, then settling in for our last night sleeping in the van.  On Saturday morning we moved into our condo and the rest of the weekend was spent just enjoying having an actual place to live in that was not on wheels! We were fortunate to be able to get the same condo rental back that we had last year, so it was like coming home in a way. After a nice visit with my sister in nearby Hudson on Sunday morning, we headed back to our place in the Carrollwood section of Tampa to kick back and enjoy watching the Pat's kick Peyton Manning's butt (thanks Tom Brady).  All in all, a great weekend!