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

ALERT a Michael Bennett Novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

Alert is the second book that I had personally autographed by James Patterson at the Vero Beach Book Center

Another intense police drama with NYPD Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker.
Bombs go off in the underground subway system of NYC, causing panic and lots of problems for NY.  Then the mayor is killed during a news conference.  What is going on?  Is someone out to destroy NYC?  Emily comes in and along with Michael begin trying to figure this puzzle out.  It turns out to be a real race against time.  During all this Michael still has to find help with his 10 children. Seamus his grandfather goes missing and with his health issues, Mike will need to find a sitter or nanny.  Seamus finds Martin who turns out to be a god send  especially since Mary Catherine, Mikes girlfriend was not able to return to the states with Mike.


AMAZON - Alert a Michael Bennett Novel

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

THE MURDER HOUSE by James Patterson and David Ellis

A town in the Hamptons where the rich play is a perfect backdrop for a murder mystery.
Jenna leaves her job with the NYPD under a cloud and moves there where her uncle the police chief has offered her a job.  It may not be the best move for her, when she was little she disappeared and begins having nightmares about it.  Add in several gruesome murders and a house know as the murder house and you have a good story.  I didn't like the going back and forth in time though, it disrupted the flow of the story for me.  This a book I had autographed by James Patterson

AMAZON - The Murder House

SANDY SAYS 2/3 STARS

JAMES PATTERSON BOOK SIGNING AT THE VERO BEACH BOOK CENTER

Sunday November 8, 2015 I was lucky to attend a book signing by James Patterson at the Vero Beach Book Center.  James answered questions for about 45 minutes and then signed books.  He was funny and very nice taking lots of time to answer all questions.  The Vero Beach Book Center is very nice, lots of books and children's toys.  If you are ever in the area, I recommend this store.   I bought and had autographed The Murder House as well as Alert a Michael Bennett Novel.  I am reading the Murder House now, review to follow shortly.




Vero Beach Book Center

James Patterson signing my books