Matt & Jess come to Tampa

After many invitations to friends and family, we've finally enjoyed some weekend guests :-) ...Matt and Jess  came down from Rhode Island on Friday. After some grilling and a few tropical libations on Friday evening, we trekked over to Busch Gardens on Saturday and hit the coasters. I'd been thinking that it might be a bit crowded, what with it being a Saturday and a holiday weekend. Nope. The park was not crowded at all, so we rode SheiKra a couple of times before moving on to the other rides (the pic shows - from left - Ben, me, Matt, Jess ...Shirley's broken foot and ribs are close to healed, but not enough for coasters). Saturday afternoon we splashed about in the pool back home, did some more grilling, then headed on down to The Hurricane for a rooftop drink, a look at the Gulf, and back home for some shut-eye before bidding adieu Sunday morning.

Thanks guys for visiting; we really enjoyed having you here (Matt, I'm still finding fruit stickers plastered various odd places :-) ......ok, who's visiting next?