Where are the mermaids?

I think we are like herding cats.  It took us a while to come up with a plan for Saturday.  People wanted to go swimming at the beach and wanted to go to Weeki Watchee to see the mermaids.  So we were just ready to leave when someone called to find out the times of the mermaid show.  We had just missed the 10 am show.  The next one was at 1:30 pm.  So shift gears.  The swimmers headed off to go swimming and then they were going to meet the rest of us at Weeki Wachee for the 1:30 show.

Cheryl arrived!! She was coming just for the day.  So here is Jeanna, Cheryl and Vivian.

Those of us who did not want to swim we had other plans. We went to see Amanda and Shanta's lovely home, then we went grocery shopping for dinner stuff.  Home for lunch of left-overs.  Then we headed out to Weeki Watchee.  Argh.  no parking ... we did not let that stop us.  At the ticket office we found that the show was sold out!! Argh!! We payed to go in anyway because we could at least do the river boat cruise.  Thunder and lightening!! So they shut down the river boat cruise just before we could ride!!  But at least we got to see some peacocks.  Home again.  Found that the others of our group did not make it to the mermaids either.  After swimming one car gave up because there weren't any parking spaces.  The other car gave up because the show was sold out.  We had a fun time.

white peacock

pretty peacock

Jeanna, Elaine, Cheryl and Barbara with mermaid Vivian

Jeanna 

Barbara

We got home.  We relaxed a bit before we started dinner.  Tonight was Elaine's turn.  She was making fish curry, vegetable curry with fresh chapatti's (made by Shanta and crew), dahl, rice and raita.  Jeanna and I helped Elaine and Vivian helped Shanta.

While we were waiting for some things to cook we watched a Bollywood Youtube song and we tried to join in.

Barbara, Jeanna, Elaine, Vivian and Shanta

Chef Elaine putting on the final touches with Karl's help

Vivian

Singing after supper

Genie Trone (from class of 1971 joined us for dinner) and Vivian

Jeanna and Elaine led the sign along.  Jeanna's husband Dave joined us for dinner as well.  Jeanne and Dave left after dinner and sing along.  

Then we watched a Bollywood movie - The 3 Idiots.  Probably about the worst subtitling I have seen.  Whoever was doing the subtitling was lazy I think.  So it was hard to know what was going on in the movie.  But it still managed to be fun.

Vivian's luggage finally showed up after a multitude of calls all day long.