Our Location today is Crystal River, Florida.
As we mentioned in last night’s blog post today was going to
be a busy day but we also mentioned we finally got our Verizon MiFi fixed as
well and it was supposed to kick in at midnight last night. You see where this
is going don’t you?
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| On the road before Sunrise. |
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| Still patchy fog. |
By 6:57 the truck was rolling down Rock Crusher Road in the
night time darkness. We spent the next two hours driving to Lakeland, Florida
to attend the Snowbird Extravaganza which occurs yearly with constantly
changing entertainers. The doors to the Lakeland Center opened at 9:05 and Snowbirds
of various ages and home locations began to fill the Auditorium.
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| Chris Bradbury MC |
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| Bob Slack (President of Canadian Snowbird Association) |
After being welcomed by Chris Bradbury the MC we also heard
from Bob Slack the president of The Canadian Snowbird Association and one of
the sponsors before we were entertained by a number of Canadian Artists. The
opening act was Bowser and Blue who not only were great musicians but great comedians
as well. Liona Boyd played great instrumental music on the guitar. Big named
star Michelle Wright had nearly everyone singing along as she sang many of her
top hits throughout her career. Finally John McDermott put everyone to ease with
his east coast style of song and music.
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| Bowser and Blue |
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| Liona Boyd |
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| Michelle Wright |
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| John McDermott (Don Cherry wanted to buy his jacket) |
It was now after noon and six hours since we’d eaten and due
to Kathy’s Diabetes it was time to find something to eat. No matter where you
looked it was all the same quick sports type foods hotdogs, hamburgers, French fries,
potato chips and a variety of cold drinks that were at least double the price
they should have been. We sat in the Jenkins Arena where we had a chance to sit
to enjoy our food as well as being entertained by Walter Ostanek and his band.
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| Walter Ostanek and his band. |
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| Jenkins Area entertainment and eating area. |
After eating we wandered through the Sikes Hall where many
vendors and tourist boards from the different states that Snowbirds tend to
flock to, were well represented trying to entice more people to help bolster
the economies of their states. There were other singers to entertain everyone
but Kathy and I normally avoid anything that requires us from getting up early in
the morning so we were starting to get tired. There was however a special guest
Walter Gretzky the father of Wayne Gretzky was there signing autographs. The
line-up for that alone stretched nearly out the door. By 2:00 we opted to head
back to the trailer which was another two hour drive.
As soon as we were home the first thing I did was try the
MiFi and my computer continued to not be able to connect. Kathy’s would connect
but she still was not able to access our account. Packing her computer and the
Hotspot we were back on the road to Inverness.
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| Canadian War Veterans |
We had told James we were going away today and he was
really surprised to see us walk in again. The reason my computer wouldn’t connect was
because Kathy had to go online to register it after midnight. (That’s not what
he told us yesterday.) Kathy couldn’t get in to register it because he had to
change our Postal (Zip) Code to the one of the store and our username.
(Something else he forgot to tell us.) After the 4th visits to a Verizon store with
his guidance the entire process was completed in ten minutes. It was now nearly
6:00 so we stopped at Wendy’s and had their Baja Salad for supper.
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| Walter Gretzky signing autographs. |
Back at the trailer the first thing we checked was the Mifi
and guess what it’s finally working the way it’s supposed to. Thanks for
following along and feel free to leave a comment. Be Safe and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Krackers
A frog telephones a clairvoyant for help with his
love life and she tells he is going to meet a beautiful young girl who'll want
to know everything about him.
The frog asks, "Where will I meet her?"
The clairvoyant replies, "Next semester in her
biology class."
You sure have had issues with that wifi, good luck now.
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