On our travelling back and forth to Venice to visit with Barb and Jon, we had noticed a restaurant called Anita’s and we thought it might be a nice place to try breakfast. So today, we decided to go go for our long bike ride and headed down Legacy Trail and got off at Colonia Road to head to Anita’s Restaurant. It took us about an hour to get there and we were both so looking forward to coffee and breakfast. Anita’s turns out to be a 50’s style restaurant with “home cooked” meals! It was great! I had a veggie omelet and Brian had eggs and bacon. Their home fried potatoes were totally awesome too!
Inside the restaurant, they had cut a “57 Chevy” in half and it was up on the wall:
Brian took the following picture especially for Ryan Neil as he is such an avid fisherman!
When leaving Anita’s, I noticed a sign that pointed to “Nokomis Beach”, so I suggested to Brian that we do a bit of exploring and head that way and maybe ride our bikes up toward Siesta Key. It was a really great ride, Nokomis Beach is nice but the sand is not like it is at Siesta Key; the sand here was more like we see at our beaches in Ontario. We couldn’t figure out why the sand is different there than the Siesta Key beach which is a few miles up the road. The following are pictures we took along the way and riding down through Casey Key. Take note of the houses we saw; a lot of them for sale as well but I think way out of our price range!
We stopped to take a picture of this Azalea bush but the picture doesn’t do it justice. It was absolutely georgeous and very bright red in colour. 
Georgeous blue water but see how the sand is a lot coarser than the white powdery sand at Siesta Key.
Riding bikes is the best way to explore in this area, so much easier than trying to drive plus we get a lot more exercise to burn off that breakfast we ate! We were out for about 4 hours and covered 40 kilometers! It was an awesome day!
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