An evening in Spanish Springs

Wednesday evening we made plans with Marty, Prissy and Sharon to meet at the Spanish Springs town center for dinner at KatieBells.  KatieBells is the only "resident only" restaurant in The Villages.  It's a beautiful two story Western style opera house where Villages go for great meals, fun and dancing.  There is entertainment there every day and includes show bands from all over the country. 

The first objective when you arrive at the town center is to find a place to park.  Tonight was "Market Night" which means that all the vendors had their booths set up selling their wares.  The band was playing in the center of the circle so people were  checking out the vendor booths, dancing to the music, enjoying their favorite beverage or just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful evening.  Some even brought their family pet!  In the center photo - KatieBells is the large building you see on the right.

When we arrived at KatieBells - the first decision was whether to eat upstairs ( steak house/fine dining) or downstairs (lighter fare and close to the entertainment and dancing).  We had never eaten downstairs before, so left the decision to our guests.  So glad that they chose downstairs.  A little noisy and hard to carry on a lot of conversation - but all part of the festive nature of the evening.

Wish I could remember the name of the group that was playing tonight, but I can't........but I do remember that they were very very good, really got the audience included and the dancers on the floor.

At the country music brought out all the line dancers and country couples line dancers.   Some of them were excellent dancers - not hard to tell they'd had some training.

And others just took to the floor, made up their own dance steps and were almost as entertaining as the band!  As Rich watched this couple dancing - he recognized him as Scotty - one of the pickleball players in the group that he plays with at La Hacienda in the afternoon.  They were having a great time!

Marty and Prissy take to the dance floor!  Sharon and I also did a little line dancing joining about 30 other dances for the Electric Slide.

Love this picture of Marty and Prissy.  Looks like they're having a good time.

Finally a picture of Sharon!!!!! The group shot after dinner.  Marty, Prissy, Sharon, Rich and Me.  I know - hard to recognize when not in our pickleball attire!!!!

It was after 8:00 as we headed for home.........and the sunset was absolutely beautiful.  This picture really does not do it justice at all........but  the best I could get from the car window! 
A perfect ending to a perfectly enjoyable evening with friends!