Ocala FL.  Went to the Villages to look at retirement communities, homes and life styles.  There are several communities in the Ocala area and a very interesting type of retirement.

While in Ocala we went to Sunrise Labradoodles.  Our friends Ardel and Maureen's daughter is breeding Australian Labradoodles  and she has a new litter so had to see.

How cute.

She does a live feed on her website of new litters if anyone wants to see.  We took Brandi along she was more interested in the cat outside.  It was like been there done that.

Karen has a beautiful set up for breeding puppies.  Ardel and Maureen had not left Minnesota when we were here but we did get to visit on our return trip.  We got to see the puppies again and Maureen and Karen made a great dinner and we got to catch up.  Ardel and Dennis were in Mayo at the same time waiting for their heart transplant.  Ardel got his a little more than a year before Dennis. After his transplant Ardel sailed around the world in a 25ft sail boat by himself to promote organ donation.  They are a great couple.

From Ocala we were off to Hudson FL a little north of New Port Richey.  Love this area.  We looked at more retirement communities and met up with our friends Bev and Tom Lee.  Bev worked with Dennis at Molex and they retired to this area about a year ago.  They showed us a great time.  Took us to local restaurants and bars.

Lots of fun places.

Their favorite places are on the river or the gulf, how can it be bad.

They took us to parks and the inter coastal water ways and showed us old Florida which is how I want Florida to look.

See the dog on the jet ski?

Loved these trees.
They took us to Tarpon Springs where they bring in all the sponges.  Neat area but I forgot to take pictures.  I did get more restaurants and bars though.

We had a great time here and can't thank Bev and Tom enough for all their time.  Thanks guys.