Honeymoon Island State Park and Tiger Town

On Friday, we drove down to Honeymoon Island State Park.  The beach is very nice and you can take a ferry to Caladesi Island State Park.   Here's the beach at Honeymoon Island.

Beautiful sugar sand.

Sudoku on the beach

It was a great beach and we may go back there.  It takes about the same amount of travel time, so we will see.

Saturday morning, we headed to Lakeland to see the Tigers play the Phillies.  Before we were out of town, Doug says "Did you see that big boat?"  I said, "Nope, I was watching the GPS for our next turn."  Doug says, "There it is again."  We had caught up to it.  It was a very large, motorized pirate ship with several pirates aboard.

They were blasting out "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night" by the Black Eyed Peas.  It was fun to see them driving down the street.  I think they were probably on their way to the parade for Chasco Fiesta.  I mean, why else would a pirate ship be driving down the street on a Saturday morning?

It was the first time we had ever been to Joker Marchant Stadium.  We have seen the Tigers in Spring Training before, but we saw them at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, the home of the Washington Nationals.  Here's the outfield and scoreboard at Joker Marchant:

 The only tickets available were general admission, so first we sat on the berm.

It was so hot yesterday.  We went for a hot dog and to sit in the shade for a bit.  We tried the bleachers, but it was hot there too and no breeze, so we headed back to the berm.  Look at the intricate and colorful tatoo on this guy's back:

We left shortly after Rayburn hit a home run to tie the game, but the Tigers did win 3-1.  It was 88 degrees there yesterday and humid.  It was the warmest weather yet.

We weren't going to go to the beach today because of the crowds on the weekend, but it looks like it's going to be a stormy, rainy day tomorrow, so we may change our plans.  As I'm writing this, it's 17 degrees back home and 64 degrees here.  Stark reminder of what we'll be headed back to next week.

Doug and the dogs are sleeping and I'm ready for a fresh pot of coffee.