Maremy's Blog

I know we're home now but I still want to continue with the posts on what we did in Florida. So, here goes with the rest of day 3.

The first part of day 3, as you already read (well, maybe...), was spent looking around the neighborhood where my family had a house in New Port Richey. Prior to the trip, I had been raving to Jeremy about Checkers, this awesome burger place very near my old house. Checkers is a chain in Florida and I've seen a few in Georgia as well. Now, I am not a big fan of fast food and ever since changing my diet a few years ago, it does not always agree with me (I won't divulge ;) ). I was, however, wanting the Checkers experience since I always enjoyed it. So, we went to Checkers for lunch. We ordered two Checkerburger combos. Checkers was just as good as I remembered it! And Jeremy LOVED it. I know, I'm going on about a fast food burger BUT it was good. Their fries are also super good too; slightly spicy and crispy! It was far better than anything you get at McDonald's, Burger King or Wendy's (just ask Jeremy about that; he had a Baconator on the way home and said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever had).

After lunch, we went into Sweetbay, which is a grocery store. I was looking for some cookies for my parents and I wanted to check in there. I didn't find the cookies although I found some other cookies (sugar-free!) and picked those up. I also looked at their MASSIVE selection of wine (and bought a bottle of white wine for Marty & Karen). We went into the liquor store that is part of Sweetbay (it's where they have hard liquor). We ended up getting a huge bottle of vodka for $20.00 and I found some delicious Raspberry liquor that was on sale.

To end off the day, we took a drive down the U.S. 19 and I pointed out some places to Jeremy my family and I frequented for dinner. I was happy to see Catches still in business. This was an awesome seafood place we usually went to a couple times when we were in Florida. Also still in business was the strip club up the road from my place. It's great to know some things NEVER change ;). We also went into Gulf View Square Mall and wandered around there.

We were back home again around 5:30 and had another delicious dinner with Marty & Karen. Afterwards, we sat on the lanai for a while and ended the night off with a walk around Grasslands.