Pirate Fest! A small distraction...

Yes, we went out today to get away from the computer and TV and have a bit of fun.
And much to our surprise, we did.
After our lunch we went over to Fishville AKA Fisherman’s Village in River City AKA Punta Gorda for their third annual Pirate Fest.
It was much better than previous years it appears they had a splurge of ideas and finances since many pirates attended the festivities as well as vendors and rides and on and on, etc…
And so although we ate lunch at home and due to the tremendous turnout where we had to park was way across the street in order to find a handicap space to have room for Hubby to take out my scooter. We spent a good two hours going through the quarter mile covered venue and all there was to see.

All I can say is that there were many vendors spread throughout the facility that were selling pirate related items from costuming to monogrammed items with the scull and crossbones, what-have-you; and also unrelated items from candles to cologne.
Entertainment consisted of cannons ready to be shot off with so-called real pirates telling their history and young women dressed too as pirates singing and dancing.

The whole thing started yesterday and will go on tomorrow from eleven A.M. to six P.M.
Much better than last year's offering I must admit and quite a nice surprise!

Sorry to hear when we arrived home that the hurricane had caused two deaths in North Carolina, one, a man, who went out during the storm who was hit with a tree limb and crushed and another, a women, killed in a car accident due to the traffic light being out since the area had lost power.

As Hurricane Irene goes up the coast she has maintained her cat1 status that she went down to this morning.
Many are losing power and trees are down as well as streets being flooded over, nothing has changed warning wise for the east coast.
All warnings have remained the same and over two million have been evacuated.
At the time of this writing she has moved slowly up the coast line towards the northeast, while now in Virginia.

New York’s transportation, subways and airports have been closed down since noon today.
Stores there too have boarded up and closed as well…
Many tourists appear to be clueless, a women in Manhattan for a tennis match said that “it is not good since she has no idea where she will be able to have breakfast before her match”? What? How can so many be in the dark?
And not know why the shops are closed?

Another was concerned because her flight was cancelled and worried about her job, I do believe even the nastiest of bosses would understand this!
CRAZY!

Any-who, on that note of not believing how people still do not know what is going on…
Allow me to ask you all in Irene’s path to be safe and do what your local authorities say for you to do, and try and have a very happy good night and count those blessings and kindly share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?