The Holiday Season and Our 5th Anniversary

We have had a lot of action during the Christmas Season and with the New Year.  Riverbend has had quite a few activities during the holidays starting with Golf Cart Caroling,

Golf Cart Caroling

 a Christmas Eve get together where everyone brings their favorite dessert and then we play a version of the "dice game" or what Floridian's call "dirty Santa".

Mrs. Santa on Christmas Eve

Christmas Day dinner buffet

Dinner for 128

Just a few of the wonderful desserts

a fun New Years Eve celebration with light appetizers for 178

The Grand Entrance

Some of the appetizers

Lots of yummy food!

Yes, there's more!

All dressed up

Wow! What a stud!

 Today is our 5th anniversary.  Roger and I celebrated by going to Everglade City and taking in an airboat ride

Black Vultures on top of Walking Mangrove

Walking Mangrove

The channel in Big Cypress National Preserve

More of the back water

Great White Heron

A large alligator

Alligator feeding

Too close for comfort

 We got to hold a small alligator named Snaps

Sue and Snaps

Roger and Snaps

 Fresh water otters

A sleepy otter

A swamp buggy ride

An example of an Indian Village

A Everglades wildflower

An example of an Indian burial ground

A Great Blue Heron

A example of a camp with a still

 A great Stone Crab and Shrimp lunch

Lunch at City Seafood on the water

Lunch waterside

Fisherman's wharf

Everglade City docks

End of the road, Highway 29

We had a wonderful day.  What a wonderful way to spend our anniversary.