Our Journey to Florida

After having greeted Jenna Joy into the world and visiting with Stacy, Curt, Dane, and Bret, we started our trek to Florida. The weather was pretty nice as we left Iowa. The gas was at a low of $2.98. Of course, that changed quickly.

Our first visit was with Aunt Ruth in Sandusky, OH. She was in great spirits, and we took her out for a nice meal. We spent quite a bit of time visiting, and Bob showed her the family DVD to get more information about who was who. It's always fun to visit Aunt Ruth.

From there we went to Cleveland to visit my sister, Nancy, and her husband, Eric. For good luck they fixed delicious black eyed peas for New Year's Day which is a tradition in our family. Of course it's always a treat to enjoy Eric's cooking.

Eric did his exercising on his exercise bike equipment that is set up in the living area. You can see bikes in the background.
Nancy, Bob, and I went to the apartment's gym the next day to get a little exercise before watching the Rose Bowl Parade.
It started to snow so we had to go up to the upper floor where there is a community room for the tenants. We were able to see the snow and some of Lake Erie.


Here are Bob and Eric hanging out before we left.
Nancy getting caught up on computer stuff, email, FB, etc.
Nancy and their cat, Muldeck (?) The cat reminds me of one of my cats, Callie, because they are Calico cats.
Nancy and Eric.
Getting ready to leave. First we took Eric and Nancy out for a meal across the street. Thanks for a nice visit.
Then we headed toward North Carolina. First we visited Bob's cousin, Linda, in Pinehurst. We kind of timed it right, unknowingly, because she had just had a medical procedure, and we were there to help her out as needed and to spend some fun time with her as well. She did fine even though she needed a little help here and there and was a little tired and needed rest, to be understood.
But she was up for playing Mexican Train and Hearts while we were there.
Then we traveled to Burgaw, NC to visit my Uncle Scott and Aunt Hadie. We always enjoy visiting with them. They treated us to a performance of The Full Monty. Yes, it was THE FULL MONTY!!!! We went because one of Hadie's great nephews was in it and had a lead part.

Here are Hadie, Scott, and Jason, Hadie's great nephew, after the show. It was a great play.

It was fun to see every one. We arrived in Ormond Beach on Sunday, Jan. 8 and have been here for about a week now. I haven't taken any pictures yet so I guess I'd better start taking my camera with me.

We've mostly been working out and going to seminars in the area. We went to the Daytona Flea Market today after church so we could have our favorite chicken curry dish, and so I could buy 3 swan pins and a swan ring. The weather has been in the 70's but got down to the 50's the last couple of days. It's great. More later.