Special day - day 2

Our day concluded with a fun dinner at a Cajin restaurant in Baton Rouge with Judy and Bill Thousand with Valerie and Dwight and their wonderful spouces. Bill, Dwight and Valerie, lived next door to us in Monsey, New York and now the "kids" are grandparents!

As we arrived in Brusly, we saw this huge tree with a yellow ribbon tied around it - pretty cool!

As you saw in a previous picture our day started off in Alabama with beautiful blue skies and we had great trveling. Once we neared Baton Rouge the rain started and it really rained hard. If only Georgia was getting this rain.

We crossed the Mississippi River and then headed south to Brusly where we pulled into a driveway of a vacant home next to the Thousands. The power was off due to a downed tree limb so we enjoyed sitting in the carport getting caught up on many years of passed time.

Beautiful sunny morning in southern Alabama

1st Night In Alabama

Tonight we are staying at Sherling Lake Park outside Greenville, Alabama the home of Bates House of Turkey (where we of course had our usual turkey dinner).

This park is adjacent to a Robert Trent Jones Golf course - part of the Alabama Golf Trail and the course looks like it would be fun to play.

Canyons Caravan 2008

We are "On the Road Again" - as Gramps sings as we head off down the road. One of these days he might learn the words!
We departed Big Canoe at 8:30am this morning and headed to Gainesville to have our satellite antenna repaired so we can continue to be sleep deprived from watch the Olympics. Of course we can watch the NBC Eastern feed from NYC in both the central and mountain time zones - that will help with the sleep!
We departed Gainesville at 12:15pm and had cleared Atlanta Airport - it would have taken us the same amount of time to return to Big Canoe. Traffic was light today and we had no delays because of accidents or because of the many miles of construction. Of course as soon as I started driving - we hit construction and the barriers within several miles...
Anne told us yesterday that her girls still search for our blogs and we had not blogged since February - I will try to do better on this trip!

Busy two weeks - and over half way through Florida visit!

Can't believe we are now half way through our visit in Florida! The past few weeks have been filled with action - not the least was watching Will swim in about six events yesterday including a 50 lap 1,000 yard freestyle! It was hard to believe it was an outdoor meet in February since it was far more like a July day in Georgia!

We left here in Deer Creek on the 31st after Bill had a biopsy of the prostate - his 8th! We got the results back this week and all is fine - no cancer for which we are most grateful!

We attended a Monaco Travelers Rally in Ocala, Florida which included a number of shows in the area and then a caravan down to the Hernando County Airport in Brooksville for a fun week and this time we had Jack and Betty parked next to us.

We departed the rally early because we had Garen & Company in town and we returned to Fawn Ridge and then headed over to their timeshare condo. They were fortunate in having one that could house Jenah and her boyfriend as well as Kelly and her husband and kiddies. They had had a great week and were departing the next morning via airplane or the auto train for Pennsylvania and some cooler weather. No more shorts and swimming for a while!

Saturday was the annual meeting and it was fun to attend and to no longer be on the board! Sure don't lnow where this week disappeared to - but it is gone!

Jack and Betty are our newest owners down here at Fawn Ridge at Deer Creek and we are expecting them in within the hour. They have been a Lazy Days today checking out a new motorhome that just might become theirs later this week.

Bill finally went to the "Doc in the box" this week and now feels much better after getting some antibiotics.

Swim meet in February! Wow!

Will ready for start!