Feb 24 Life in Fort Myers

 This is a really nice city to spend winter in. Not many Canadians at our 300 unit development but lots of Mid and Eastern US citizens. We not in a gated community and feel perfectly safe with everything we do here. 

  Margaret has a busy network of friends and some of Brent’s relatives too so we visited with several of them and learned more about spending winters here. 

  There are plenty of good seafood (and other) restaurants and all busy. WE don’t wait more than half an hour for a table anywhere. The fresh fish and seafood is great, that’s about all we eat. Evenings we stay in we are inclined to buy a BBQ chicken and have it with salad - too hot too cook. Also pastas (lobster ravioli) fast and easy. We have good breakfasts and really only need one other meal a day. Happy hours beckon and some people live on those.

  It is regularly 90 and sunny every day, having a hotter spell right now. The humidity is really high and saps our energy. Afternoons are for the pool where everyone floats on spaghetti and chats.

  Ted and Margaret have had a fine old time sapping family stories. She is a veritable mine of historic information concerning their family back to the 1600s! The Foster (or sometimes Forster) family fortunes ebbed and flowed from time to time. Margaret’s daughters will visit from time to time, Brittany coming late March. 

  Today was -24 in Calgary. Glad we are here!

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