Tandoori_Girl

Ok, travelin9. Here's what you should do. Get a room at the Don -- better yet, get a suite. Gulfside as high up as you can get. Enjoy the view, the pool, the Kahlua-coladas, and the fabulous Gulf of Mexico. For fun, take in St. Pete's wonderful Dali Museum, the largest collection of Dali's work outside of Spain, with a great retrospective of his amusing life and analysis of the influence of Catholicism and religion and war on his paintings, his lifelong lover Gala. There is now a huge retrospective of Dale Chiluly's art glass at the downtown St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, which is itself a work of art. Go to Sunken Gardens in downtown, good for a couple of hours, one of Florida's oldest tourist attractions, recently purchased for preservation by St. Pete. Go to Busch Gardens in Tampa for a great day, a park that specializes in entertainment which has just completed a 30-minute play in their theatre collaborating wth the many talented folks who worked on the Lion King for Disney on Broadway. Don't like seafood? Be sure to make a trip to Bern's Steakhouse in Tampa, and get the fascinating tour of the kitchen and the wine cellar. Don't forget desert upstairs where you and hubby will dine in your very own wine-casket-turned-banquette. Take a day to go shopping at International Plaza in Tampa with its high end goods -- or go to the huge outlet mall across the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Palmetto.

And don't forget to spend an afternoon at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, go at dinner time and watch the feeding. You'll be amazed at the pelicans and the birds of prey.

What more do you need? Let me know.