Back in Holland

The past week has been a busy one.  We left Cape Coral last Thurs. night after celebrating with Charlie and Janna Winn and friends for Charlie's birthday and drove over to Miami.  Larry had an ICPI meeting for a good part of the day so I was left to just lay by the pool and swim while I waited for him to be done with the meeting.  (I know, I know, you can't believe what a rough life I have.)  :-)  Then we had dinner with the group Friday night and then headed North Sat. morning.  We got a pretty good start, not too late but then stopped near Palm Beach to visit Jim and Caroline Campbell, our neighbors in Charlevoix.  Jim will be 90 yrs old in July and has been on dialysis for 2 or 3 years now.  He looked pretty good, considering, but they will not be coming to Charlevoix this summer so it was especially nice to see them.

We left there about 1 or so and got back on the highway.  Florida is a big state, especially when you start in Miami and head northwest!!  We stopped in Chattanooga for the night and then drove the rest of the way home on Sunday and arrived in Holland about 7:30 Sunday night.  Whew - that's a long trip!!

But we are glad to be home and so Larry is getting "caught up" in the office and then had to leave again Tues. morning, Travis picked him up in NJ on Tues. and they saw customers there and then on a little farther north then Larry was back home last night.  I've been getting the house cleaned up and the stuff unpacked that we brought back with us.  We had dinner Monday night with Jamie and the kids and Mom Hilldore then Tues. night met the Spauldings, and Mary Jo's Mom and Dad downtown for "junk food" from the "fat wagons" that are here for Tulip Time.  Other than the traffic it is a fun time to be around downtown with all the people in Dutch costumes.  There are LOTS of tulips blooming and the flowering trees seem to all be in bloom and loaded with flowers.

Melody and I went to the Holland Chorale concert last night then to Boatwerks for dinner.  Always fun to do something with her.  It was a fun "girls night out" and since both of our husbands were gone it gave us something to do as well.