Florida Spring Training Trip - Day 7

No home game today, so we slept-in again, did the laundry and had lunch in the hotel.

It was another nice day so we decided to drive over to Dunedin after lunch and check out the resort where we will be staying after Friday.  We also went to the Dunedin Post Office to see if any mail had been forwarded to date.  No mail yet, but we are in the system for a temporary change-of-address.  They do not forward junk mail so that should significantly reduce the amount of mail we will receive while we are here.  The resort looked good and we are hopeful it works out O.K.

We then went into downtown Dunedin and had a drink at a waterfront hotel.  The hotel restaurant and bar, called the Bon Appetit, is in a nice indoor/outdoor setting right on the bay.  We each had a fancy drink (Judy - Pina Coloda, Pat - Mojioto) and listened to another Jimmy Buffett type guitar player with acoustical background music play old favorites for the mostly older patrons.

Since we had not eaten in a couple of hours, we decided to drive over to Clearwater Beach to watch the sunset and  have dinner at one of our favorite area restaurants, Frenchy's Rockaway Grill.  The crowd at Frenchy's is a little younger, but there is also a mix of families, old folks on vacation (like us), and a millennial/middle age beach party, after-the-ball game sort of crowd, drinking beer and having fun.  As always, the place was packed and we waited a little over a half-hour for a table. While waiting, we enjoyed another beautiful Florida sunset.   Frenchy's specialty is a fish called a Grouper, a local favorite similar to Mahi-Mahi that is prepared and featured in a number of different ways ( e.g., sandwiches, entrees, appetizers, etc.)  In fact, some places down here actually serve Mahi-Mahi instead of the more expensive Grouper to unsuspecting tourists who cannot tell the difference anyway.  Before ordering the Cajun grouper sandwich, I was assured I was getting the real thing.  Not that I would have been able to tell if it wasn't.  It was good, anyway.

Tomorrow's game is a night game (6:30 pm start time) against the Toronto Blue-Jays, so the blog tomorrow will probably be delayed.  Other than the game, nothing else is planned at the moment so it should be another relaxing day.

Day 7 Pictures