let's get outta this town tonight

Ben and I had an extended weekend of fun in the Fort Myers Beach area this last weekend. Here's the breakdown:

Friday, 1.21.11
The day started out early, with our flight leaving Milwaukee at just a little after 7am. For me-- a definite non-morning individual-- this was difficult. On the way to the airport, my car thermometer read -6 degrees... Florida could not come soon enough!!

Once we landed in FL, we picked up the rental car and drove over to Fort Myers Beach. (The extent of our planning was used up by that point...) It was raining when we got on the island, which made it difficult to really check out our location, but it soon let up and the sun came out. We did some minor exploring and then booked a room at the Holiday Inn and walked around on the beach.

For dinner we got some sushi from the grocery store and some cheap wine (which was kosher fyi). Ben told me that the wine was Jewish communion wine... and I may have believed it for half a minute. That night we went swimming in the heated pool next to the tiki hut bar which was packed with middle aged snow birds with leather skin and too much to drink. It was awesome.

Saturday, 1.22.11

Saturday we woke up and realized that our room just smelled funky. Funky like old and musty. So that was the only night spent at the Holiday Inn. Mostly because it smelled funky and slightly because there was no one remotely close to our age there.

It was super windy and cloudy, so we got in the car and drove over to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. It was pretty... windy and cold! However, we were being good sports and did some major exploring and walking on the beach. All the older people sat in their cars and looked at us like we were nuts. One guy even rolled down his window and told us that "the old people just stay in their cars!!"



COLD!!



pot of clams & oysters

For dinner, we headed to the Lazy Flamingo on Sanibel Island. I had some fried shrimp and Ben got a whole pot full of oysters and clams. He even had to shuck them himself! I was pretty positive that he was going to slice off his finger(s) or half his hand, but we left the restaurant with all limbs intact.

We got back to Fort Myers Beach and got a room at the Lani Kai. That place was a definite spring break hotel... so it was a bit on the cheaper side, but there were more people in their 20's and early 30's. SOOoooOOooo....... it was pretty fun.