We are really enjoying Cocoa Beach! The views are beautiful and we have dolphins right near the docks! Nick and I ventured into town which is a block from the marina. 
I hit any boutique I saw! 
Then we had to stop for a glass of wine at Cafe Margaux and ended up having a small lunch there. 
I had the soup of the day which was Cream of Mushroom with sherry! It was the most delicious mushroom soup I’ve ever had! Then we took our show around town – and hit all the pubs!
When we found the Bier Garden that’s when Nick texted his buddy Jeff. Nick had to drop a pin and Michelle and Jeff found us in a jiffy.
Michelle got this strawberry drink that I just had to try as well! 
Then came the German food!
I couldn’t help but talk about my German Grandparents and all the great memories I have of their home in Clarendon Hills, IL. Eins, Zwei, Drei!!! So I FaceTimed my Mom tonight!
After all the food and drinking Nick and I found a bike shop and rented two bikes for the day. 
This gnome was looking at me. What is a garden gnome doing in a bike shop? It’s just wrong! Where is Larry Magnuson and Doug Ford when I need them?!?
We took the bikes up the road that paralleled the Intercostal. 
These two palm trees are dancers!
Then we found a pub. 
This made me miss my brother. So I called him tonight. 
I forced Nick to take me to the hardware store. It opened in 1885 and there is stuff in there you’ll never see anywhere else!
I really enjoyed that place! They had a complete line of Lodge cookware for all your cast iron needs!
Took the bikes back to the boat and I think we secured them well but we will have to see in the morning.
Then it was back to Cafe Margaux for a fabulous dinner! Lauren and Ronnie joined us along with Kevin and Kathleen who are old friends of Jeff and Michelle. 
Ronnie ordered a color changing drink that stayed a nice purple color and didn’t change.
Raspberry and Disaronno cake that tasted like the pink sugar wafer cookies of my youth.
Interesting fact – Ronnie wants to learn how to surf with the sharks in the ocean but will not sleep in a hotel that is suspected to be haunted.
Also Interesting fact – Lauren will say just about anything and she feels by prefacing it with “I read this somewhere” makes it ok to say.
Quote of the day came from Ronnie and I don’t even remember the context “Chicken are like dinosaurs.”
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