Friday, March 27, 2009

Up North

I arrived "Up North" last night.  Back in Holland for a week to have a baby shower for Allison and then I will fly back next Friday with Jamie and the kids for their spring break.  Jamie picked me up at the airport last night and then we played a game at my house with Jacob.  Chutes and Ladders, while Ashlyn explored the toys she hasn't played with for a while.  It was great to see them and I will see them again this afternoon for a while and then Jamie and I will finish getting things ready for the shower that is at her house tomorrow morning.

Also while I'm here I'll also catch up the Dr., my hairdresser, the "kids" who are here, my mother-in-law and my friends (looking forward to lunch Wed. with Melody!!).  I'm sure the week will go fast but could someone change the weather for Sunday?? I"m hearing something about snow and I'm pretty spoiled now................   :-)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fun with Mark and Shelley

We are having a fun week with our friends and the weather is cooperating for the most part.  It was rainy the first day they were here but we got out in the boat Thursday to Green Flash for lunch, Friday to Boca Grande for lunch at the Pink Elephant and Sat. to Ft Myers Beach to Parrot Key for lunch.  Notice any pattern here?  :-)

Today we took a "Sunday Drive" out to Pine Island and the Tarpon Lodge.  A pretty spot on the water in Pineland.  Janna and Charlie Winn met us there.  Then we rode up to the north end of the island and then back into Cape Coral and up Burnt Store Road to Punta Gorda where there is a new car museum.  It is mostly Chevy cars with a large collection of Corvettes.  About 170 cars there - all a private collection on one owner.  Interesting to look at.  There was also an air show going in in Punta Gorda so we saw the Blue Angels fly over quite a few time.  Pretty cool.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Is it March already?

Where does the time go???  We have stayed busy so that makes the time go fast I guess.

We spent a part of the week last week on the boat down in the Keys.  We met our friends Karl and Linda Lohre at Hawks Cay at Duck Key on Wed. and spent a couple nights there.  It's a real nice place and very family friendly so there were lots of kids there but also lots of room to "spread out" so there were quiet spots to be found.  We boated over to Marathon one day then back to Hawks Cay and then on Sat. went up to Islamorada and spent a night.  We had great weather and made it back home on Sunday by mid afternoon.

Mark and Shelley Hawks are here now for a week but the weather has not been quite as good so far.  Cloudy and rainy yesterday and today so we drove down to Marco Island yesterday to visit some friends there.

We were up to Longboat Key two weekends ago with the WPO group.  They came here on Friday, had dinner out and breakfast here then 10 of us got on the boat and went up to Longboat Key.  Gary and Pam were our hosts there and 2 of the couples had to leave out on Sunday and so there were only 4 of us on the boat home on Monday.  It was a nice time with them all.