Sunday, January 27, 2008
Flight
We flew over route 192, then the Town of Celebration, over the swamp - we even dropped very low into a clearing, over Reunion, across Countyline Road and Ronald Reagan Parkway and finally landed in Posner Park which is being developed where the old Baseball City and Circus World were located.
After landing all of the balloons (around 6 - 7) gathered for a celebration of champagne and some fresh food and yummies!
Marian and Rennie Zanetti then joined us and we headed over to Lakeland to go on three geocache hikes on some of the new TrekTen Trails created in Polk County. Found all three and we managed to get in about three miles of hiking.
Last evening we were feeling pretty tired and headed out for pizza and then some ice cream at ColdStone Creamery! Great ending for a very great day!
After landing all of the balloons (around 6 - 7) gathered for a celebration of champagne and some fresh food and yummies!
Marian and Rennie Zanetti then joined us and we headed over to Lakeland to go on three geocache hikes on some of the new TrekTen Trails created in Polk County. Found all three and we managed to get in about three miles of hiking.
Last evening we were feeling pretty tired and headed out for pizza and then some ice cream at ColdStone Creamery! Great ending for a very great day!
70th Birthday Celebration
What an fun and exciting day I had! We got up at 5:30 AM and headed over to the local Publix parking lot and grabbed some coffee and met our pilot and his crew in the parking lot. A helium balloon was released and the decision was to fly from "Old Town" a location off 192 behind a Publix where there is a large empty lot. 14 balloons and their crews gathered there for the fllight! Off I went with a banner saying Happy Birthday.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday the 19th
We are now back in Deer Creek after spending a week at Fort deSoto Park which is one of our favorite locations!! We had fun geocaching, walking, cycling, boat riding and learning a new sport - frisbee golf!
This morning we had our weekly pancake breakfast at our Fawn Ridge clubhouse and tonight we have a dance there.
Jack Ehlenberg had told us about a restaurant on the water at Tierre Verde called Billies - they had free boat rides at 5pm which we of course reported in for! We ate there 4 times including a fun very special time with Scott - alone for several hours. We enjoyed the getting caught up time very much.
This morning we had our weekly pancake breakfast at our Fawn Ridge clubhouse and tonight we have a dance there.
Jack Ehlenberg had told us about a restaurant on the water at Tierre Verde called Billies - they had free boat rides at 5pm which we of course reported in for! We ate there 4 times including a fun very special time with Scott - alone for several hours. We enjoyed the getting caught up time very much.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Have been here 10 days
We have been here in Deer Creek for 10 days and we are not sure where the time has gone to! When we first arrived we had a problem with our electric power reel which Bill was able to correct by removing the motor and shipping back to Glendennin for repair and at the same time being able to access our power line so we could hook up to power.
Our arrival here was great - we had a number of friends accidentally at the office as the Millers and Paynes pulled in! It was good to see everyone again after not seeing each other for nine months!
Sunday we drove over to Tampa and we attended the Tampa Bay Bucs football game with Robin, Scott, Will and Matthew. It was fun seeing them and being with them on Robin's birthday.
Bill became quite stuffy this week and at this point we are not sure if it is kitty or a cold he has picked up. He is on medication and feeling better and hopefully all will work out and Smokey will not need to find another home. He is a most excellent cat and gives lots pf purrs, kitty kisses, sits well on your lap and is well behaved. It is almost like Smokey I left behind a manual for Smokey II on how to behave and how to train us to do what he wants. Tomorrow he will have been with us for three weeks and it seems like he has been here for a long time. He stands on his hind legs and puts his front feet on the window sill to look out the window in the bedroom. So far he has made no attempt to escape. Hopefully that means he is happy here with us.
Our arrival here was great - we had a number of friends accidentally at the office as the Millers and Paynes pulled in! It was good to see everyone again after not seeing each other for nine months!
Sunday we drove over to Tampa and we attended the Tampa Bay Bucs football game with Robin, Scott, Will and Matthew. It was fun seeing them and being with them on Robin's birthday.
Bill became quite stuffy this week and at this point we are not sure if it is kitty or a cold he has picked up. He is on medication and feeling better and hopefully all will work out and Smokey will not need to find another home. He is a most excellent cat and gives lots pf purrs, kitty kisses, sits well on your lap and is well behaved. It is almost like Smokey I left behind a manual for Smokey II on how to behave and how to train us to do what he wants. Tomorrow he will have been with us for three weeks and it seems like he has been here for a long time. He stands on his hind legs and puts his front feet on the window sill to look out the window in the bedroom. So far he has made no attempt to escape. Hopefully that means he is happy here with us.
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