St Pete 3

Sept 4, 2012

For five years I have been looking for dancing shoes.  Shoes that turn on the dance floor when I do salsa and merengue.  Shoes that are cushiony and that feel like dancing on air.  I already have two pair, same design in black and in white, that I have had resoled twice.  When these give out, I'll be out of luck on the dance floor.

So it was a great day when I found a pair of dance shoes at a dance store called On Pointe.  The service was outstanding and the people were able to find a pair of 5 1/2 sexy, leopard-look shoes for me.  They're real dance shoes, with suede bottoms that I can't get wet.  They'll work great on a wooden dance floor; I just hope they'll let me turn on the ceramic tile floors in Costa Rica.  Holly found a pair of dance shoes, too, so were both excited.

Have you ever heard of strontium?  It's a mineral that makes bones stronger and adds bone mass.  A woman at the Gulfport Casino told me about strontium, and I wanted to check it out.  When I come to the US every year, I bring a list of things, including vitamins, to buy to last me the year.  I wondered if I should buy strontium instead of calcium.

We found a big health food store called Earth Origins (it's like Whole Foods but smaller).  The woman in the supplements section was very knowledgeable about strontium and everything else.  So much so that she lost me somewhere around saying that you don't take only strontium; you have to take it in an exact ratio with calcium and some other minerals.  Buying a year's supply of the pills she recommended would have broken the bank and filled the second suitcase that I am bringing home, so I decided to pass on the strontium and just get my regular calcium supplements.  Susan, watch for the delivery.  Ooh, this store had a little deli section and I got a small container of horseradish chicken salad.  Delicious!

No trip to Central Avenue would be complete without stopping at St Pete's biggest new and used bookstore, Haslam's.  I bought a Sudoku book (gotta do my morning Sudokus).  I'm going to buy other books from my To Read list when I go to the Goodwill used book store in Bradenton.