Day 14 and 15 Clearwater

Cooter at Cooter's

Left Treasure Island for the short 20 mile drive up to our friends Bonny and Johns place near Clearwater. We ambled along Gulf Blvd (Rt 699) taking in all the little towns up the coast. When we got up to Clearwater Beach we found a little restaurant we just had to have lunch at. All Sylvia's family calls her Coot or Cooter, and the name of this joint (and it is a joint) was Cooters. Unless your name is Cooter, don't go there. The beer was okay, everything else was questionable. For her cocktail Sylvia had a Cooter Splash (see picture). She tried to get me to drink it, I wasn't biting. We did have food, and actually the Grouper sandwich wasn't bad.
Dinner at Bonny and John's was great and we spent the evening generally agreeing on the quality and content of Obama's State of the Union address. John's a physican and has a definite opinion on Obamacare and President Obama in general.

On Wednesday Bonny had a golf lesson scheduled so Sylvia joined her and the pro even let her participated in the lessons - incredibly nobody got hurt. In fact, they both said Sylvia did really well - I don't believe it. While they "golfed", I borrowed one of John's bicycles and took a four hour ride up the Pinellas Bike Trail. The trail goes for 39 miles from St. Petersburg up to Tarpon Springs. It's a pleasant ride through several small towns and villages and I would have loved to do the whole thing.
For dinner we went to Greektown Grille and had a pretty good meal. We all shared (except for John) an excellent Grilled Octopus. Sylvia had Greek Pasta and I gorged on a traditional Greek platter of Mousaka, Pastistio, Dolmades, and Gyro - I managed to eat about a quarter of it. We supplemented everything with several bottles of a Greek wine which I forgot to write down and should have because it was very good.