Fun weekend in Jacksonville!

Phil Stacey concert

Visiting with old friends

Craft Show

Crab legs

What a nice weekend we had in Jacksonville!

John had to work in Jacksonville on Friday so I rode up with him since I knew that Phil was having a concert there at The Landings. So after work we headed down to The Landings for dinner. Since we had a big lunch, we decided to just sit down at the Hooters outside patio and have a few beers. The patio was right beside the stage, over looking the river, so we knew we would have a good view of the show.

Chip & Karen (our Pittsburgh friends that live there) joined us at Hooters right before the show started. It was so good to see them again!

When it was time for Phil to start, Karen and I left the guys at Hooters and went up close to the stage. It was really crowded but we still were able to get pretty close.

Phil was awesome! His voice was so strong. He was having a great time being back in Jacksonville!

At the end of the concert, Phil said he was going to stay and meet everyone who wants to meet him and sign anything. I knew John wasn't going to go for me standing in line since it was already about 11:30. So I went over and stood by Phil's table and just watched him interacting with everyone in line. Then he looked up at me and smiled, pointed at me and said, "Come Here!" I was so happy he recognized me. He gave me a big hug and said it was so nice to see me again. He signed his Cd that I brought with me and we took a couple of pics and chatted for a minute. Then I told him I would chat with him next month in Ocala and he hugged me again and told me it was so nice of me to drive up from Tampa just to see him :) I really was surprised he remembered that I live in Tampa! He really is a nice guy!

Here are few pics from the concert:

After the concert we went over to Chip & Karen's to spend the night with them. After getting back, chatting more and checking email it was 3am!

On Saturday John & Chip got up early for golfing... I slept in. Karen had a tennis lesson and then we headed out to a really nice craft show. They had a lot of really nice crafts, not just he old country style that you usually see. Karen I both bought gifts for people and we also bought Black African Soap. The lady that was selling it told us the whole story of her family that lives in Africa and how they make this natural soap. She had us wash our hands in it and it made your skin so soft. She also said it helps with wrinkles, old age spots and acne so we both bought it. I've been using it since Sunday and having seen anything different yet however my skin is a lot softer than usual. I usually have to put on hand cream several times a day and I haven't had to all week. I'll let you know later if it helps with the big 3 {wrinkles, age spots, acne}

John and I were very excited to go out Saturday night to our favorite restaurant. It's the Outback Crab Shack in St Augustine. It's been a couple of years since we've been there. Unfortunately when we got there they were closed down because TS Fay flooded them. So we went to another fishcamp and they were also closed. Finally another couple that we were with knew of another fish camp to go to and they were open! Yeah! We had a great time there chatting, drinking and eating. Half of our group got King Crab legs and the other half got prime rib. You would not believe how big the prime rib was! When they sat it down in front of everyone it reminded me of when Fred Flintstone put that big rack of ribs on his car! LOL

Karen & I enjoying our King Crab legs!
John digging in to his Prime Rib. Of course he couldn't finish it and his to go box I swear weighed at least 3lbs!

Chip, the skinny guy of course ate all of his! :)Terri digging in!Terri's husband Terry. They are just getting ready to celebrate their first anniversary!
This restaurant was huge! All along the ceilings they had hundreds of stuffed wild animals. It really was amazing!