Well, I am working on doing my blog on my computer, not on my iPad. Interesting. Listen, everything I do on my HP computer is interesting. I have downloaded the photos from my first adventure getting here. Now to figure out how to put them on my blog. My goodness, technology is confusing. I can say this, it is so much easier to type with the computer.
We had such a fun trip on the way down.
On Tuesday we left Ocala, FL and headed for Sarasota, FL. A two hour trip, Jim was wonderful and parked the camper in the parking lot while I went on an 11 o'clock tour and a 12 o'clock tour of the mansion. "Ca d'San", house of John.
John and Mable Ringling had no children and left everything to the state of Florida upon their deaths. I think it's Southwest State University that runs it now.
Well here we go again, I type and I type and somehow I seem to shut things down and loose everything thing I have typed and have to start over. Drives me nuts.
I would really like to invite you in to the house of John, I had such fun on the tours.
John Ringling's bathtub was huge and carved out of one solid piece of marble. When that sinks in, pardon the pun, but to think someone can take a huge enough chunk of beautiful marble and have a bathtub carved out of it, it kind of gives you pause. Wow. The attention Mable paid to detail was just mind-blowing. The wooden toilet seats were faux painted to match the marble and they looked so real. All the bathroom doors had beautiful artist paintings on them of floral and fauna. Exquisite birds too. The door knobs were all different to match the décor of the bedrooms, there were about half a dozen bedrooms, and each were color themed, the green room, the yellow room and the rose room to name a few.
The bedroom that was most spectacular besides John's was the Tower Bedroom, All by itself on about the third floor. Will Rogers came often and wouldn't come if it was occupied by someone else and often there were celebrity guests.]
One of my favorite rooms was the ballroom, the ceiling had at least 20 sections, and many sections depicted individual painting of dancing scenes of different countries.
The game room had canvas scenes, the artist painted on canvas and that adhered it to the ceiling. The paintings were fabulous.
I had such fun going through the mansion and of course the main patio overlooked the ocean. Mable and John were crazy about Venice and even had a gondola which eventually sank and I think John had at least 3 boats that all sank.
I had loads of fun. The grounds, the artwork, just taking it all in. What an experience.
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