Sharp's Travels

Today was road trip day with Larry and Denise. We picked up Larry and Denise at 10:00 am and headed to St Pete. Our first stop was to see the Chihuly Collection. Dale Chihuly was a pioneer of the studio glass movement, Chihuly is credited with transforming the methods of creating glass art and thereby leading the development of complex, multi-part glass sculptures and environmental art. However, his contributions extend well beyond the boundaries of the studio glass movement and even the field of glass: his achievements have influenced contemporary art in general. Our next stop was the Morean Arts Galleries. The Morean Galleries are one of St Pete’s premiere art experiences featuring over 25 exhibitions each year. We did see some very unusual art made out of all kinds of scraps from junk parts. Out next stop was the Hot Shop where we got to see some beautiful glass pieces. The high light was see a demonstration of glass blowing and the making of a tall glass vase. Our next stop was the Morean Center for Clay.  It is located in the old St Pete freight train depot. We got to see a lot clay pieces in different stages of completion. It was very interesting on how it is done. We were surprised there weren’t more artists working. The next stop was Haslam’s Book Store. It is Florida’s largest new and used book store. They have well over 100,000 books. Our next stop was the Mazzaro’s Italian Market. I had mentioned a few weeks ago that we were there and now wanted Larry and Denise to see it. Then it was time to head back to Zephyrhills to have a fish fry at the Eagle’s. We have heard from a lot of people that the fish is really good. So this was our first time there. Larry and Denise got there fish and we were told ours would be a little later because we asked for baked instead of the fried. We wait about a total of 30 minutes and kept asking where our fish was and they kept saying it was in the oven. The next thing they made an announcement that they were done serving fish. Long story short we didn’t get any fish to eat and had to go through a lot to get our money back. We dropped Larry and Denise off and headed home to have a sandwich. Other than the fish episode it was a wonderful fun filled day spent with good friends. If I get the energy I will try to post some pictures of our day.