Sanibel Island Vacation Diary - Day 5Click the audio controls below to start the audio diary. The button in the center is the play button. You can control the volume with the slider on the left. The transcript is also included below. [5 minutes, 19 seconds]
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Fred: Got up late again, about 11:30. Susan, of course, was already on the beach. I went out to talk to Susan and we decided we would just stay in for lunch, so I ate leftovers from the night before, from LaVigna, which were excellent. That's the great thing about staying in a condominium. We have a refrigerator, so we can easily store any leftovers and reheat those in the microwave. After that, we went to Finnemore's to get the bicycle that I was renting for the week and then I rode that home. I went down to the lighthouse and then back to our condo. I went out on the beach for just a little while that afternoon, but Susan was out there most of the afternoon. She's reading, basically one book a day. She's a much faster reader than I am and she's always bringing a whole library with her because she'll read it all. I bring a whole library with me, but I never read more than about 20 pages of one single book.
Anyway, we decided that we would go to dinner at the Seafood Factory [now called Gasparilla's Grill], which is at the far west end of Periwinkle Way and we got there and there was no one there. We were, I think, the only ones in the restaurant for a few minutes, which is fine with us. It's not an indication of the quality of the food. I think that we're just going earlier than most people are. We got there at about 5:50 p.m., so if you wanted to eat without a wait, just make sure you go out before 6:00 or even before 7:00, I think you could probably still get a pretty good seat. By the time we left, there were still plenty of seats available and no waiting at all, but Seafood Factory is a good place to eat. Obviously seafood is the main part of their menu, but they have plenty of other things. Once again, I got a full rack of ribs, mango barbeque ribs, which is a slightly different flavor from other ribs that I've had. And Susan got fried shrimp. We talked to the waitress and after Hurricane Charley, they changed their menu a little bit, their menu was actually pretty large and they reduced a number of items. Unfortunately they removed the item that I would always get, which was what they called "Frogmore Stew." Basically a low-country boil, if you know what that is, with some boiled shrimp and corn and, I guess sausage and it was really good. I would get that every time I went there, but it was not there. We had a good meal there. Our meal was $45. That included two glasses of wine for Susan, no dessert. Then we decided we would go see a movie, which was convenient because the theater is right next door to the Seafood Factory. It's in the Bailey's Shopping Center, so we were able to just go right to the theater and see Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie movie. I give it three out of five. Not bad if you're interested in an action movie. We did go in before the movie, we did stop into the Bailey's General Store, which really lives up to the name. They had a little bit of everything, from things to take to the beach, to hardware store items, telephones, vacuum cleaners, Susan said, to little knickknack gifts that you might want to buy on a trip and then connected right to that is the Bailey's Grocery store, so we went on in there and got a couple of gallons of water and then went to the movie. That was pretty much it for the rest of our day. I did eye the
Dairy Queen on the way home, which was I guess about 9:20 by the time we were driving home, but it was very packed, so . . . Susan says the line was coming out the door, so it was packed. I guess people tend to eat a little later around here, especially getting ice cream. It's probably a late night thing for a lot of people, so try to go to that early.
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