Whew, what a long day. All started well enough. We traveled to Tampa and had the good fortune to hook up with a couple whose blog I have followed faithfully for over a year now of daily posts. Doug & JoAnn were kind enough to meet us for lunch at the Cracker Barrel where we enjoyed a fish fry that was delicious. We hope to meet them again, perhaps on their next journey to Nova Scotia or maybe next year when we return to Florida. Doug wore his Nova Scotia sweatshirt in honour of our visit.

From there is was over to the big RV Super
show at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. Talk about a super show, it was incredible! The pic to the left shows the group of Montana owners who gathered to meet at the Montana display. This was our first time being able to attend a gathering of members of the Montana Owners Club. I've written back and forth with them over the internet for the past three years but until now had never met any of them.










We barely scratched the surface at the show, I don't know how many days you would have to prowl around the grounds to see everything. The girls were with us and they had a pretty tiring day as they walked miles on their little feet. Maggie challenged several big dogs to duke it out but they all seemed more amused than threatened. It took us a lot longer to get things done because of all the people who stopped and wanted to talk about their Poms with us. Many had passed and the owners seemed to really enjoy petting our girls.

After the show the fun really began. I got snookered real good by the GPS. I punched in our return trip home and didn't pay too much attention until I realized we were getting closer than I wanted to Orlando. Well, we ended up in Orlando and after a re-program we arrived home about 2 hours later than we should have. As if the day wasn't long enough already!

One good note about the drive home was running into this place. If not on the wrong road we would have never discovered Parkesdale Farms. You have to see it to believe it. We had giant, fresh strawberry shortcake. Large, and I do mean large Navel oranges for a quarter. I saw one orange today the size of a small pumpkin. Grapefruit 5/$1.00. They were extra large too. Anyway, it is quite a place. It's in Plant City.