Dunedin

We made it to Melody,s via the casino adventure in Tampa. So the only "public" transport available was the casino bus, $60 return from Gainesville to Tampa, including Hard Rock Casino membership, 2X$5 meal coupons and 2X$25 casino betting coupons. Martin and Sharon took us to one of the WalMarts to the pick-up point. The mini-bus was 45min late on a very cold very early morning (thanks again kids) but it was a quick and fairly comfortable ride. The casino was out of our world - enormous, plush, glitzy, with carpets, chandeliers etc - and just big, big and big with endless lines of slot machines, poker-tables, noise of these machines, rock-music and announcements continuously. We managed to park our bags and set to feed our coupons to one of these millions of complicatedly twinkling machines. I have to say we enjoyed the experience as the randomly selected beasts which we managed not to understand how to operate, decided to spew endless number of winning tickets - 21 in number - and we claimed back $34 in cash!! And the meal coupon bought us a good sized chinese dish, surprisingly tasty.
the psychology to stay with the machines and spend our winnings worked, but luckily we had no time to do that, as in no time Melody arrived to collect us, and since then we are in her attentive care.
Her house is lovely, friendly and Melody-ish, the doggie, Jessie ditto, the garden includes an orange tree and a grape-fruit tree full of their produce, and the sun is warm - though in the shade it is still quite chilly. We are a few minutes from the beach, the place is just magic. We had a welcome drink in Melody's favourite bar run by her friends, had about 10 hours sleep - and after a morning of thinking and organisisng (by Melody, who ofcourse is a professional organiser) we decided, that we'd give Key West a miss... the area here is so nice, we'll have so much to do when we are not lazing around the house which is also would be just fine...
pictures will come later when we are back to Gainesville.