WE ARE EVACUATING!!!!

Karen arrived today.  No problems except that she had to shovel four inches of snow last night and then it was 25 below when she left this morning.  And then, while she flew in the plane, some guy decided to have an emergency health situation and had to have the medivac guys come on to the plane and evacuate him too and make sure he was ok.  So she had to wait to get off the plane while this guy got emergency care.  So she was in quite a state by the time I picked her up at the airport and couldn't stop talking about how horrible everything in Minnesota was and how wonderful it was to see green grass and feel warm temps.

So we went to Doc's for grouper sandwiches because that's where we take everyone who arrives and then took a walk on the beach and Karen went to the pool and I went to have a pedicure and Mark yelled at IBM people who were stupid, idiots, and morons.

We then made a nice dinner and sat on the porch for the first time this month and enjoyed our dinner and wine and gin and tonics.  We finished dinner and then Karen made a wonderful dessert and we were about to eat it when a horrible sound pierced the air.  It was some kind of fire alarm.  We took for granted that it was a false alarm and we tried to eat our dessert.  But we were all so pissed because, after 19 days in March, this was our first night on the lanai in the warm weather with a sunset.  So we wanted to finish, but everyone came out of their apartments to see what was happening.  So we went back in to the condo and went to the back lanai and there were FIVE FIRE TRUCKS AND AN AMBULANCE AND 100 FIREMEN!!!!!!  NO KIDDING!  Then Karen looked up at the roof and there was black smoke billowing out of the roof of the condo next door just feet away from us. OMG!!!!

So I yelled at the other people next door and told them to evacuate immediately and we started to gather our precious items and evacuate as well.  But we did grab a bottle of wine and some glasses just in case the emergency lasted too long.  When we saw that the Bonita Springs Fire Dept had their finest deployed and had the situation under control, we went and watched the last few moments of Karen's first sunset and had our wine and took many beautiful pictures.

What a start to Karen's vacation in Florida!!!!!