Oct. 9, 2015---checking out of the Royal Vista and more food trucks
Our short 2 night stay was done.  Time to check out.  But first, we headed up to the top floor for our "owner update".  We actually got told we weren't being fair to the salesmen by the salesman for signing up for it!  As hard as they make it to say, "no" before they give you a parking pass, now we were given a hard time for signing up for it.  Whatever---we let him try to sell us some more points, took our $125 gift card and were on our way.  
View of the Wyndham Santa Barbara from the top floor of the Royal Vista.  I hear it's a really nice resort, but we've never been to that Wyndham.

 riding around making our way to Sunshine Bagel.

 Did I mention how much I love palm trees?!

 love all the different architecture around, too.

Had to have another lunch at Sunshine bagel before heading back to Coral Springs.

Even saw this guy wandering around on the grass not too far from Sunshine Bagel.

After lunch we went back to Coral Springs and waited for dinner time.  Then went to the grand opening of the Coral Springs Art Walk and some food trucks.

 Josh pretending to play a saxaphone.

 the only art we saw here.

 our food truck---bctacos!

 I love the T-Rex (although I don't see how a chicken can be a T-Rex)! 

 Even ran across an employee and friends of Josh's.  I got to meet and thank the young man who helped them move all our furniture up into our 2nd floor apartment.

 Time to chow down!

 then the rains came and we left.

Oct. 8, 2015---Angie and her Antique booth! 

  This morning we were up fairly early and drove back to Coral Springs to help Angie get ready to move a bunch of her antiques to her new booth at Sugar Chest Antique Mall.  Ken even drove the UHaul from the rental place to their house.  Once Josh got home, they loaded up the truck and we followed them to the store.

 Doesn't look like much here.  Her garage is still pretty full, but they only have a booth that's something like 5'x15'.

 following them into the parking lot.

 Her empty booth

 getting full

  After several hours, she had it looking like a showcase!

 Hope she does well!

 We didn't hang out there too long.  A decorator I'm not!  We went back to the resort and hung out at the beach and pool.  Then we headed to the Lighthouse Point in search of a pretty sunset.  Not much of one tonight, but the weather was beautiful so we enjoyed sitting around for awhile.

 I even chased down another interesting bird.  Have no idea what it is, but I love that there are so many different kinds of odd looking birds in South Florida.

 Another view of the lighthouse.

 We watched several cars drive through the flooded street, too.  It doesn't take much for the ground here to get saturated---but then when you get about 2" of rain every afternoon, I guess that is "much".

 Oc

10-8-15 mini 2 night trip to Wyndham Royal Vista-------
Still have Wyndham points that need to be used before the end of the year, so I found 2 consecutive nights at the Royal Vista in a 2 bedroom unit.  This is the Pompano Wyndham that is actually on the beach, so I was looking forward to seeing the ocean from our room for a couple nights.
View from our room.  Also loved that one of the pools was heated---even though we used the other pool, too.

 looking towards the front door from the patio door.  Master bedroom and bathroom to the left, 2nd ones to the right.

 Nice large well equiped kitchen. 

 Master bedroom.  Now when we go to the Wyndhams we're usually in a place bigger then where we  live now!

 2nd bathroom.

 2nd bedroom.

 We went to the beach and watched the storm clouds roll in

 I was even about to get in the water when I spotted this large jelly fish.  I think it's one of the pink moon jellyfish without stingers like we see in the Caribbean quite often, but I didn't want to take any chances since the water wasn't very clear and I didn't think I'd see it in the water. (I now believe these guys do sting!  I think this is what got me in Key West on our cruise in Nov. of 2015!  Left my whole arm welted and after that subsided, it itched terribly for another week or so!)

 Storm getting closer.

 Surprisingly, there was no lightening with the storm, so we hit the pool.  First the one by the bar at the back of the resort.   But when it started pouring, we had to get out to put our stuff in a dry place.  We thought we had that covered putting it under an umbrella, but a worker went and closed the umbrella when the rain started. 

 So we headed towards the other pool knowing there was a big pavillion with chairs and side tables there.  We put the stuff there and jumped in this pool.  That's when we discovered that this pool was heated whereas the other one wasn't.  Really felt great with the rain pouring down!

 Looking from the heated pool area towards the beach.  The gated pool is a kiddie pool and to the left is a little market attached to the resort.  The unheated pool is around the building to the left.  Only thing missing here is a jacuzzi.  I find it interesting that there is a fence around the children's pool, but not the other pools!---wouldn't want the kids to accidentally get into the kiddie pool!

 Eventually we went back to our room and gazed out at the ocean with all it's cloud cover.

Oct. 4, 2015  biking around, then hitting the pool.
Oct. and still waiting for the right time of the day to bike without the the heat of the day.  Then hitting the pool to cool off.  Wonder how long we'll be able to use the pool before it's just too cold!?
On my bike ride today, I came across this pumpkin patch.

 Most people here already think the pool is too cold---with it being about 85!!

 We also picked the kids up from the airport tonight.  Their 9 night/10 day trip has come to an end.  So has our dogsitting for now.

10-3-15  driving around a Parkland community
Kids are still on their trip.  In fact today is Angie's 35th birthday.  I'm sure she's having a great time in the frigid NE.  I'm still having a great time in the warm SE!  Today we just did a little riding around.  Ended up riding around in a gated community in Parkland.  This one wasn't as high priced as the other one in Parkland that we drove through, but it was interesting seeing all the different housing architecture.  Also love the entrances to the Parkland communities!

 Nice single level house.

 2 story with character.  Love the 2nd floor patio and the architectural pieces above the garage and patio.

  a road in the that subdivision.

 There were several with separate garages---I don't ever remember seeing that before.

 A single level with 2 garages.

 Another 2 garage door house with 2nd level patio.

 Just outside the entrance to this subdivision.  I'll really be excited when they get this part of the road done.  It'll make our trip to Loxahatchee even closer!  This subdivision is one we always pass on our way there, but right now we have to go down and around the subdivision to get to Loxahatchee Road.

 And we hit Loxahatchee for another rather lack luster sunset.