We attended the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle. It was a time to see people in a different setting. Some dressed to a T, others dressed, one guy walked around the church many times up and down the isles as if looking for something. People came in at all times, suppose that the daylight savings change caught some of them by surprise? The priest and his message was a 4 on a 1 to 10, lent is tough to preach around.
Here is where we are parked, intersection sign so if we forget we can find it this way:
Off to downtown. We are at the 400 Beach Seafood and Tap House. Shirleen had a beach drink, as it was across the street from our outside table. It was a Pineapple Caipirinha (Brazilian cocktail) – fresh pineapple with muddled fine sugar and Ypioca Cachaca (fermented sugar cane) over crushed ice, I a chardonnay. Shirleen’s haddock fish (ale battered) and potato planks in the background, I a Tandoori Spiced Mahi Mahi, Orange Butter Sauce, Island Rice. These meals had fresh cheddar cheese biscuits.
Our main reason for going downtown is to view the Chihuly Glass Collection that was right next to where we ate. The exhibit cannot be photographed so I took one off his brochure. The beauty of his work which is done with silicates to make the glass, inorganic compounds from the Earth's crust to give the color, heat to fire it, and air and wind to blow and shape them, and gravity to also shape the work, all basic elements of our beautiful earth.
Here is a manhole cover:
We took a walk out to the seawall toward a crawfish festival, we found a nice bench to sit on looking to the gulf.
We walked back to the car past the Renaissance Viony Resort and Golf Club in back of the bright red flowers.
and headed to the inner gulf of St. Pete and Tampa
these were not the best but ones we could stop by and take a picture as they were ones we did like a lot. We wind our way around these areas, going from mansions
to average accommodations. Many in each section For Sale.
Thru Tampa and found a place at a Hampton Inn in Seffner Florida
