Day 16 – Leaving Fort Myers & heading to Crystal River

Consider this basically down day number two. The kids and slept in until around 8:30am or so. I was already up watching the Tour, but decided to lay in bed and watch it. Anna and Jill had been up for some time and were sitting outside drinking coffee and chatting up the sunrise. We had to check out by 11am, so around 9am I got up and started packing up the room and getting what I could into the car. Anna did one last load of laundry before heading out and we finally said our last goodbyes and headed north.

On the way out of town, we met Nana and Grandpa for breakfast at First Watch off McGregor. We got there pretty quickly and just as we sat down the both of them popped in through the door. No complaints from anybody as the food was great as always. After First Watch we walked down a few doors down to Norman Love, a chocolate store. Grandpa had a gift certificate and wanted each of us to get some treats in honor of Grandma Betty.

We finally hit the road around 12:30pm and headed down to Brandon to stop in for a little bit at Hayli’s. She wanted us to come by and see her place on the way to Crystal River. We met the new addition – Nymira – a georgous litte BIG dog. This puppy is about seven months old and all play. We hung around for about twenty minute before heading out and continuing to Crystal River.

 Stopped in by the Winn Dixie for some needed grub and finally pulled into the driveway around 5pm. The house was not what was expected. This house was NOT on the water - NO good! Plus the house itself was not in the condition as advertised. This was going to be an issue for me. I was somewhat disappointed. I quickly went on VRBO to see if we could get another place. Luckily I found a nice place on the Homosassa River which we will be able to get into tomorrow.

Amanda showed up at the house a little before 6pm. We all caught up for a bit before heading to Sellers Seafood for some dinner. As we walked in they proudly announced that it would be an hour wait. No one wanted to wait that long so we headed next door to Thai Poon and powered down some amazing Thai.

Back to the house and we all chatted for the rest of the evening.