Highlands Hammock State Park, Sebring, Florida
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ~ I Peter 4:8
We had actual, real, bonified visitors today!
Blaine’s mom and dad stopped by for a couple of hours. Wasn’t that nice? They come down to Florida for about 3 months every winter and were moving from Point A to Point B, which happened to be through the area we were in. Blaine washed windows in anticipation of their arrival (and just because they needed it), and just as he was finishing up – – – it poured down the rain. For about 2 minutes. Just long enough to ruin all his hard work. I felt bad.
We had a nice visit . . .
. . . and great pizza! In fact, we would go as far as to say, one of the best we’ve ever had. (I’d say the best, but it’s not wood fired. 😊) We ate here last year, so Blaine though it’d be nice to let his parents experience it. Besides the pizza, they also gave us free dessert! Just what you need after eating two large slices of pizza! What do you think dessert was? Funnel cake bites! We were soooo stuffed by the time we left there! But every thing was eccellente! (That’s Italian for excellent. 😊) And it was one of those meals you wish you could keep eating because it tasted so good!
They were on their way by 1:30pm, so with most of the afternoon before us, we made an attempt to cram in two weeks worth of sightseeing into about 3 hours, since we lost two days at GRV and we have to check out tomorrow. Biking and hiking as many trails as we could, but only taking a few pictures, since we did all this last year. We were disappointed at the lack of wildlife sightings though. But at least we saw a couple of things, so that was pretty exciting!
We also stopped in for orange ice cream, since they have it advertised in several places as being available. It seemed to us that if they were going to announce its arrival like that, we should at least try it. It was a little pricy, but really good! And they crammed a lot of ice cream into that little cup! It sort of tastes like if you poured orange juice over vanilla ice cream.
And we paid a visit to the CCC Museum, but it was almost 5pm and that’s closing time. Plus, there wasn’t anything new here since last year. Except – – they cut down all the trees around the building. If you remember, this is the place where we watched them doing the prescribed burn. Well now, there’s nothing to burn anymore! I’m wondering if the stuff was growing so fast, they decided to cut rather than keep burning every few months? It’s still a mess though, but maybe they’re not planning on cleaning it up.
Tomorrow we head to python country.