Heading North March 28, 2010

Unfortunately it is time that The Big A Bus needs to head North. We left Naples Florida on Thursday morning and just took our time toodling on up I75. We spent the night in Lake City and then arrived in Bainbridge, Georgia on Friday afternoon. Keith was home and Carolyn was on her way from Atlanta. She had been up for meetings due to her job. She got home about 4 pm and we just visited and Keith cooked us steaks for dinner.
Saturday morning the guys went fishing, Carolyn and I did our yearly check of flowers at the cementery and went to buy some new ones. We are going down today to power wash the tombstones of her parents and our parents. Oak City Cementery is famous for it oaks and flowers but oh do those trees make a stained mess on the graves.
The buys caught some fish in the river and then came back to the pond here at their house and caught some catfish. The cleaned and cooked the fish for dinner and oh were they good.
I will add more to this Blog during the week.
We are planning on heading towards Virginia on Thursday but now Ally is trying to get Bry & Julie to come to Indy for Easter so if that happens we will be heading to Indy instead of Virginia.

Saturday March 20, 2010

Another good week in South Florida. Our friend, Janice Parsons arrived on Monday afternoon and we helped her unpack her van and spent a little time with her talking about Ralph, and the last few weeks of his life. A few tears and lots of good times remembered and now we can go forward, not saying we will forget Ralph but we need to move forward.

Tuesday we went to the Everglades and rode the 15 mile bike path through Shark Valley. We just took our time and saw lots of alligators and birds. Came back to Everglade City and had dinner at The Depot. Not the best in the world but it was food.

The rest of the week was just a multitude of different things. Shopping, Flea Markets and visiting. We did get together with several couples that were with us on the trip this past fall when we went to the balloon festival in New Mexico.

Tomorrow Donna and I are going to Ft. Meyers to the Theater to see Ciqure Dreams. I am sure I will enjoy that.

We will be leaving here next Friday morning to go up to Georgia to visit some family and friends and then on to Virginia.

I lost a very dear friend this week. Abbie Dollar, the lady who taught me to make peanut brittle, went to Heaven. She has been ill for over a month and I had prayed for God to take her home. We had been friends for about 44 years. She was a wonderful LADY.

Crystal Lake RV Resort 3-13-10

We have had a busy week here in South Florida. It has finally decided to warm up and most of the week was nice and sunny. Donna Tolson and I spent some time shopping but also enjoying being outside. Larry and I have been using our bicycles a lot as we plan to drive down to The Everglades National Park to Shark Valley on Tuesday and do a 15 mile round trip on the bikes. Both of us have some sore muscles but that is good for us.

We have been just enjoying relaxing some, reading, eating a lot and catching up with people that we have met before here in the park.

Tomorrow is a Memorial Service for those people who have passed away since last season and we plan to go to honor our friend, Ralph Parsons, who died in Feb 2010. His wife Janice will be here next week and we plan to spend sometime with her.

DISNEY march 1 2010

These are some of the pictures we took on Monday at the Magic Kingdom. Larry and I drove over to Orlando to meet Ally and family on Sunday after 2/28/10. We actually arrived about 10 minutes apart. They had rented a 3 bedroom condo and asked us to come and stay a couple of nights with them and go with the grandkids to the Magic Kingdom on Monday. As most of you know the weather in Florida or anywhere else for that matter has not been the greatest this year but let me tell you Monday, God looked upon us and we had the most beautiful blue skies, temps around 70 and it was great.We did lots of things in the park but Bella liked "The Party" the best. This was the musical program out in front of the Castle with lots of the character. Especially Mickey and Minnie.

We left the park around 5:15pm and went to the condo for the girls to change into their Princess dresses so we could go have dinner at the Grand Floridian with Cinderella, the Prince, stepmother and stepsisters. After dinner we rode the "toot toot" as Noah called it when he went to Disney the first time, to see the lights on the castle in the Magic Kingdom. All in all it was a great day but we were all ready for bed by 11pm. Larry and I left on Tuesday morning and came back to Dade City to get the motorhome and left on Wednesday to travel to Naples for the month of March We arrived in the afternoon after stopping outside of Sarasota to catch up with a friend from Michigan, Barney Rogers. He lost his wife, Jodi a few years ago and has now found a wonderful woman , Laura and they plan to marry in June. Thursday and Friday was spent with Tolsons and doing things are the park Today, we just did a few things here at the motorhome and I did find a garage sale with Longenberger Baskets for sale.

I spent the afternoon sitting outside reading while Larry took a nap and then we went out with 3 other couples to eat "ribs" at one of the favorite places here.

More next weekend.