On Friday they had a Christmas golf cart parade where about 50 golf carts were decorated and drove around the park. Everyone else was just partying in the street watching them drive by.
The last few times we have taken the dogs for a walk Tanner seems to have had some issues so we decided to buy him a fold up wagon. Yesterday we went to Orlando to Dick's Sporting Goods and bought a really nice compact wagon for Tanner to ride in when he gets tired. It seems the heat is what causes him the issues. Tonight we walked several blocks in the park while it was cool and he probably walked at least halfway. On a warm day about a block or a block and one half is all he can do before he starts wanting to stop every few feet. While in Orlando we also stopped at Costco to pick up a couple of other things. We would have been much better off if we would have went on Monday instead of Saturday due to the traffic but it was still a nice trip. We were only 30 minutes away from Dick's and one hour away from Costco. We ran into toll roads which is one of my pet peeves. We all pay a lot of money in Federal taxes and the federal government returns some of those funds back to the states in the form of highway dollars. Why so many toll roads. I know there are probably good reasons but I think if you want to charge tolls then you shouldn't get highway funds from the federal government. We paid tolls at about eight places for around ten bucks. I know I am a tight wad when it comes to certain things.
I told you in an earlier post this RV resort has around 1600 individual sites. It is a gated park with only one entrance into the park with 24 hour security to check you into the park. These are a combination of rv sites, rv with house sites, and just houses. Some of the houses still have a large garage door for a motorhome or rv. I will try and post some pictures of the various places here. The rv lots without anything on them probably start out in the upper $30k range. A few years ago these lots sold for the upper $70's but have come down considerably and there are a lot for sale. If you own a lot you can put it into a rental pool where you get a percentage of all of the rent collected from property in the pool. Regardless of whether your lot is rented or not you still get a percentage of the rental pool receipts. The houses probably start in the $200's and go over one million. A lot of disparity between somebody like us on a $40k lot compared to someone in a $800k house with a $1.5 million Prevost motorhome in the garage (there are several of these). But regardless it all seems to work.
There are plenty of things to do here. You can learn to square dance, make rubber stamps, carve wood, and countless other things. They have tennis courts, pickle ball courts (half the size of a tennis court played with a paddle. Kind of a cross between badminton and tennis.), card games, bingo, a library, an 18 hole golf course, a driving range, bocce ball and shuffle board. They have a bar inside the park and two restaurants with very reasonable prices. They have a church and post office and two swimming pools and a very nice exercise facility. Everything is included in what you pay for rent except the golf. You can pay by the round or buy a membership that includes a cart. Everyone drives separately in their cart even if you are using the new course provided golf carts. The pro told me they had a very large outing here a couple of weeks ago with 130 golfers and they used 125 golf carts. Go figure. Many will use their own cart rather than transfer their clubs to another cart. I leave our golf cart for Huli and I drive our car to the course and then use their golf cart to play golf. All of their prices includes the cart which I don't like but that's the way it is. I think they do it so the course can afford to have the number of carts they have I guess.
Here are some pictures of the golf cart parade and the park.
Huli walking down the street in front of our place with her margarita
This is an RV repair shop that is in the park.
All kind of wildlife here. This kind creeps me out. They have small rattle snakes here called pigmy rattle snakes. Apparently they aren't very long but they are poisonous. I am not sure what kind of snake this is.
