Fort Myers -- Apr 21st

I was looking forward to today for awhile, because Jared and I had planned on going fishing and just relaxing. We stopped at a bait shop, got some shrimp and some pinfish and headed down to Fort myers beach and walked out on the pier to fish. As we drove, I noticed the city, it is huge! It is much different than I pictured it would be. You never really hear about Fort Myers when you hear about places to go in Florida. But it is very big with lots of space and pretty spread out. It feels laid back and there are definitely some beautiful people here too. I really enjoyed the city, and glad I went.
On the pier, the pelicans just sat there and walked around all day. You could easily get within a couple feet of them. Eventually, Jared was putting his hand in their beak. It was cool. Some of our bait fish died in the bucket throughout the day, and we would feed the pelicans by hand. There was also a little egret, too. I caught my biggest and coolest fish ever! It was about a 12 inch Spanish mackerel. I had a great time. We fished until about 4, and we needed to eat. So we walked to a really good place that was close. Jimmy's roast beef. I joked that I come to Florida from beef country to eat beef, but it was really good. It was like Arby's on steroids. We had wings and fries to share, I had roast beef, and Jared had a pulled pork sandwich. Everything was great. We hit a little cool bar by the beach next, had a drink, and went back home to regroup. I did some laundry, almost got in a nap, and showered. We went to a place Jared used to work, the Stonewood grill, I think it was. They have an item there he told me I had to try. It was homemade chips with chunks of blue cheese, a blue cheese aoili, and topped with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Wow! I have never seen anything like this, and the flavor was amazing. Then we went to a little dive that had 2 dollar 32 oz draws and had a couple beers. There was a guy there who was absolutely hammered. He kept trying to drink everyone's beer, and the staff waited way too long to kick him out, but Jared's cute friend, Kate, met up with us and we met another guy there who was originally from St. Louis, and we all shot the shit for oawhile, until we decided to check out another place. We went to a place where it was ladie's night and they had kareoke. I sang a couple songs did a couple of shots and enjoyed my birthday with Kate and Jared. It was just right. Went home and went to bed. Slept like a baby.