A Visit to Legacy of Leesburg

The weather here in Florida has been brutal! The heat index during the days has been as high as 105 degrees! When we left Wednesday morning for Leesburg the sky was a little overcast, and we commented on the way that it would be nice if it would stay that way, at least for the morning.

As we headed along 27/441 in Leesburg, or first stop was at McDonalds for a $1 breakfast buttito and coffee. Well.................neither of us had brought any MONEY!!! Fortunately - we realized this BEFORE we stopped, so I went digging through my pickleball bag. I have this very bad habit of just dropping change in the bottom of my bag or purse, and Rich is always giving me a hard time about all the coins I carry around and never spend. Well today it paid off. Fortunately we had brought coffee with us, so all we needed was $2.14! YES!!! I actually found $2.27! And so we feasted on our gourmet burrito!

And then we continued on.............

Legacy is an active retirement community located just south of Leesburg, Fl. and adjacent to Highland Lakes, where we have visited a number of times. Legacy appears to be a much newer community than Highland Lakes - it is advertised as a "premier retirement community". It is definately a beautiful place to live with excellent facilities. And the town center features the 30 ft Clock Tower which is really pretty impressive.

The clinic was scheduled to begin at 10:00 am. Some of the participants were out on the court playing when we arrived - and despite the heat, some of them actually stayed for the Clinic. Unfortunately - the cloud cover was gone and we all baked in the heat of the sun for the next couple of hours!

They only had two courts so the number that actually participated in the clinic was limited to 12. Above Rich addresses the group and then gets them on the courts practicing the forehand and backhand groundstrokes.

Here the group takes turns practicing "dink shots" and lobs.............

And everyon's favorite - "the third shot".

They all agreed to stay for just a few minutes longer for a group picture. That's Bill Leach kneeling in the front next to Rich. He's the one who planned the clinic and invited us in. It was a really fun morning, despite the weather. A really nice group of people.

By about 12:15 we were ready to head back. We grabbed a couple of bottles of water for the ride home ( Remember - we don't have any MONEY!). Rich debated on whether to head back out for pickleball at La Hacienda, but decided to take the day off. (That does not happen very often!!!). By 1:30 he was sound asleep in the recliner, when the phone rang.

Denny had just returned from his trip to California, and was finalizing plans for their trip here. Needed some final directions on how to get to the villa here at The Villages. Can't wait.!! They should be arriving about 8:00 on Saturday morning.

Actually - we were both kind of lazy today and made it a day of rest. That meant I didn't have to cook either. So we headed out for the Red Sauce Restaurant down in Sumter Landing. $1 beer during happy hour, and $7 pasta specials from 4-6pm. The meals are great, with really good portions for the price. Tonight was $7 Pizza night - where you could get any pizza on the menu (with no changes) for just $7. We saw several of them go by - and they looked great, but we opted for the speghetti and meatballs and ziti with a salad. We'd had that before and knew it was excellent. And it was excellent tonight too!

Back home and the end of another day in Paradise.