Sheila, Wes, Paul & I spent a relaxing week in the Orlando area visiting Mom, Woody & Maite. At the last minute we decided to leave on Monday night to beat the blizzard that was coming our direction. We were sure glad that we left when we did. The storm hit, interstates were closed, schools were delayed/closed, the temperatures dropped and the snow piled up all over the Fergus Falls area. We spent an extra 2 hours on the plane Tuesday evening as we waited to de-ice. It was hard to imagine the weather we left behind as we slept at Woody & Maite's house on Tuesday night with our windows wide open!! It was wonderful. We had weather in the upper 80's all week with lots of sunshine. We felt a little sorry for the girls & those left behind in MN.
We often found Paul on his phone during our vacation. Thankfully most of those calls were just chatting with his buddies & not all business calls. Here he is soaking up some sunshine by the pond in the backyard. (It wasn't overcast - I took the picture through the screen in my open bedroom window.)
Someone turned her ankle the first afternoon. Thankfully we had a doctor along and she was healed in no time. She did get out of hauling all of the heavy luggage around. (Not that she planned to carry it anyway because as she was ever so ready to tell us "she was on vacation"!)
We had some exciting evenings of playing games. Here we are introducing everyone to BananaGrams. (If you like crossword games like Scrabble we highly recommend this fast moving word game.) We also played Dominos and Catch Phrase. We love playing games with Maite - she is so much fun (for a cheater). Ha ha....just kidding, Maite!
We spent some time shopping, going to Cocoa Beach & Vero Beach, spending time at Nalcrest in Mom & Dad's new condo and exploring the Florida countryside while we went to Garage Sales with Mom's friends. The guys went to Gatorland and also went on airboat rides. (Woody needs to post a blog with these photos....hint, hint.)
Sorry, I didn't take my camera to the beaches with us. Maybe the Borowski's have a couple pictures on their blog.
We thought we would be able to view the space shuttle launch on Thursday since we were already in the Cocoa Beach area, but it was postponed. We did get a great view of the launch on Sunday evening from Woody & Maite's backyard.
This was our view from their backyard.
Okay....we had a tv out on the patio with us so we could see the actual blast-off.
Moments after this was seen live on the tv screen we saw this....
It was a great way to spend our last night in Florida.
Thanks, Mom, Woody & Maite for a fun week!!
