Showing posts with label fireworks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireworks. Show all posts

Fireworks in The Villages

Visited the Eisenhour Recreational Center here in the villages of Florida.  Within the rec center is lots of memorabilia of past wars donated. 





Went by golf cart to a special secret area that not that many people know how to get to by golf cart.  Found a great spot right across from where they will be shooting off the fireworks.  Today is July 3rd so they are early this year.
9pm start time so it is starting to get dark.
Let the fireworks begin here in Wildwood Florida. Kyle and Mary were excited to see the fireworks.

















Karasuyama fireworks with Tomomi

Tomomi picked us up down the street from Keiko's house.  We were so happy to see her.  We got in her car and were on our way to pick up a couple that she works with at Honda.  We now have new friends Fatumah and Pieric from France.  We are on our way to another friend's house named Yu who lives in Karasuyama.  This is the location where the fireworks and festival will take place. 
Our arrival at Yu's house was wonderful.  We were greeted at the door and welcomed with a table of full of food and drink.
Yu's family makes plum wine.  We tried wines made in 2010, 2013 and 2016.  They started a new jug for 2019. 
 Kanpai (cheers) with new friends here in Karasuyama.  There were 4 generations there tonight.

 Fatumah is from France and now lives in Japan.  She works with Tomomi at Honda. Fatumah said she has tried 5 times to make crepes and failed, but finally, they came out good and boy were they delicious!

 Yu's grandfather is 90 years old and still so very healthy.  I just think he is so handsome. Enjoyed visiting with him.
We heard fireworks outside and we all took off to go and watch.  They started exactly at 6pm.  It was so much fun enjoying time with everyone as we watched the beauty of the colorful fireworks bursting in the sky.


 After the fireworks, we went down to the festival and walked around.  Then back to Yu's house for some more hot sake. The wind kept the smoke away which made the fireworks so much prettier.  This town seems to be surrounded by mountains.  As each firework went off you could hear them echo off the mountains.  Below was one of my favorites.  The show lasted 45 minutes but we were told one of the best shows lasts for 3 hours!  That's a lot of fireworks.  I would have a stiff neck before the show was over.

Click the link to see some fireworks from Japan

https://youtu.be/aDJJzrWuBkg

New Years Eve/Leonard & Carols 50th Wedding Anniversary

Breakfast this morning was good as always.  Ham and cheese omelet, fried potatoes and toast. After sipping some coffee Marlon and I tried out the stream room.    Wow I loved it,  so relaxing.  
Went back to condo and decided to get ready for today's adventures. Sitting on the lanai drinking some coffee listening to the ocean and watching some beach walkers. Marlon snapped a few pics of me while we were out there.
We went back in sat down and ate our salad for lunch.  Gathered our  gifts for Leonard and Carol  and headed to car.    Decided to go to Fort Morgan. This place has really populated in 3 years.  Lots of land for sale and lots of new places along the coast.
Stopped out at the ferry landing and took some pics of a couple of ships and an oil rig. Se a telescope so I  looked e the It to get a good look at the ships out in the ocean.

Right after we left the ferry landing we stopped and took some pictures of what is left of the Fort Morgan fort.  Since 1834 Fort Morgan stood as the guardian of Mobile Bay.
We left and have  pulled off  again to travel down this gravel road.  Took a few pictures of the landscape scape and vegetation. 
One more stop before going into town, I want to get a picture of this huge tree covered with moss.  The size of it just amazes me.

  In town now and need eggs for morning.  When Marlon went in to get eggs I picked up anniversary card from dash. Right away I saw that the gift card was no longer there.  Panic attack oh NO frantic at this point.   The gift card was just purchased last night.  Marlon was  back now and I told him the card was missing.  He started the car and started driving. He decided to stop again and both of get out and search the car.  Which we did and came up with nothing. Heading back out to the condo to look, we searched the parking lot, contacted  management of  building to see if anyone had turned it in.  I knew that would be a miracle and just as I thought NO.  Called security next , again NO card has been turned in.  I called Mickey' s restaurant and told them what happened. No one was there that could say if they could give us another card.  I mean we do have the receipt with the card number on it.   If someone uses it they will know it's not there's.   Hopefully I get a good phone call and this works out.   Arrived at Leonard and Carols and gave them the wine in which I put in a gold wine box. Handed them the card and told them about losing the $50 gift card. Thurman and Karen were there when we arrived it was so nice to see them again.
On our way to Pensacola Florida restaurant named McGuire s Pub.
  The place was packed.   I got a drink while we waited for 1/2 hour to be seated.
It was served in a Mason jar and was called Irish Wake the liquid inside was GREEN. The drink consisted of fresh squeezed orange juice with 2 different kinds of rum. My good friend Carol helped me drink it. :-)
The restaurant's decor was an Irish theme.  The minute you walked in you can't help but notice the entire ceiling was covered with one million signed dollar bills.
We were promptly seated in 1/2 hour Carol was given  2 glasses of champagne to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary compliments of the restaurant.
 Dinner was served and it was so good.
 All of us took 1/2 our food home.   Feeling pretty full. On our back to Carols. Visited for a short time and then left to go back to condo.
 Fireworks were being shot off at midnight over the  ocean and we had a wonderful view.
 Happy New Years........friends.