BAREFOOT by Elin Hilderbrand

Do you love the beach, love stories set at the beach?  Then this is a good read.   Vicki and her sister Brenda and Vicki's two sons Blaine and Porter along with Vicki's friend Melanie decide to spend the summer on Nantucket.  Vicki and Brenda have inherited their aunts cottage there and have fond memories of summers there.  It's not to be carefree though, Vicki has cancer and will begin chemo then, Brenda was fired from her job as a college professor and is facing criminal charges and Melanie's husband is cheating on her and she just found out she is pregnant.

This book took me a bit to finish, seemed in parts to have way to much information

Amazon - Barefoot


SANDY SAYS  2/3 STARS

H2O Resturant Ft Lauderdale Beach, Fl

H2O is a very nice restaurant, overlooking Ft Lauderdale Beach.  It is medium priced, the food was very good.  Everything tasted made from scratch and just picked, which a lot of it is.  The waiter was awesome very friendly and happy.  Would definetly go here again.



SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

Lulu's Bait Shack Ft. Lauderdale Beachplace Mall

Lulu's Bait Shack  overlooks Ft Lauderdale beach.  The food was fine and not to expensive and they have good customer service.



SANDY SAYS 3/3

Hollywood. Beach and Landshark Bar and Grill Restaurant

Landshark Bar and Grill  has a pretty location over looking Hollywood Beach and is located at Margaritaville.  The food was good and not to expensive.  However the waitress was terrible, took our order and disappeared;  and the guy who was walking a round asking how things were and to let him know of problems-then no where to be found.  Our food took forever to get to us and we both ordered cuban sandwiches which should not be to difficult to make.  People that got there after we did got their food before us.  Then not wanting to wait for credit card bill I gave waitress cash for the bill, after she had to be tracked down; and she wanted to know how much I wanted back to which I replied all of it.  It took her forever to do this and comes back with my change, dollars but not the actual change claiming she didn't have change to break a one.  At which point we walked out.

Other customers were having similar problems.  My advice is to avoid this place

SANSY SAYS 1/3. 

Ft Lauderdale, Fl Lobster Bar Sea Grill

Lobster Bar Sea Grill is amazing! The menu items have 10 or less ingredients.  The seafood is 48 hours from ocean to table. It is an a la mode menu, however the portions are probably big enough to share. Everything we tried was fantastic.  I had the ceaser salad, and crab and Steve had the warm spinach salad and steak.  Cooked to perfection.  We celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary there and were treated like royalty.  It is expensive and we valet parked $5 and a tip.
Definitely worth a try

Ft Lauderdale, Florida, Marriott Vacation Club Beachplace Towers and Water Taxi

We went to Ft Lauderdale 1/3/2016 we stayed at the Marriott Vacation Club Beachplace Towers, right across from the beach. For convenience it was great, right across from the beach, walking distance to the water taxi and right down at street level was a mall with shops and restaurants.  However parking is in a garage and spots can be tight with a cost of $14 a day.  They have 4 elevators and it can be slow along with service staff using them.  The stairs to the street level, I would advise you to avoid as they are dirty and at the bottom dark.  The room was fine. Staff was friendly.
I think it was overpriced.

                                                         
                                                              From our hotel

                                   view from our balcony overlooking the intracoastal and water taxi stop

The Water Taxi was a good deal.  You can ride all day, getting off as much or little as you want for $26 for adults and $21 for seniors.  It goes from Ft Lauderdale down to Hallandale Beach.
We enjoyed this.



 

The Florida White House

BEACH HOUSE MEMORIES by Mary Alice Monroe

This is the sequel to Beach House, it is Lovie's story.  Set in Charleston and Isle of Palms, Lovie is a child of the 40's.  By 1974 she is married with 2 children and was fulfilling her role as society thought a Southern Lady should act and be.  Her best friend Flo was getting right into the 1970's way of things.  They spend their summers at their beach houses, where Lovie is the resident Turtle Lady.  This summer there is to be a study of the turtle nests and Lovie and Flo join right in.  It takes a look at life in the south in that era.

AMAZON - Beach House Memories

I couldn't stay with this story for very long, but did finish it.

SANDY SAYS 2/3 STARS

ROSE HARBOR IN BLOOM-Cedar Cove Series by Debbie Macomber

The sequel to the Inn At Rose Harbor.  We meet back up with the gang in Cedar Cove.  Jo Marie has been working on her Inn and hoping to have her rose garden done before the open house for the chamber and town.  She also has a full house that weekend, family for a 50th wedding celebration and a woman with cancer although she keeps that quiet.  Through in her difficult to work with handyman and hearing that her husband's crash site has been found is it possible he is still alive?

This is an autographed copy that my son and daughter in law gave me for Christmas

AMAZON - Rose Harbor in Bloom

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS