Florida and Georgia Jan through April 2011

We arrived in Jensen Beach to spend a few days with my mother.   We then went to Kars Park  for a week and to store the RV as we were heading to Georgia to housesit and dog sit for Lindsey and Dzmitry while they were in Australia. 

While we were there the D'Avis's were visiting and came over to Kars Park for the Space Shuttle launch and to spend the day with us. 

We couldn't see the launch that good but alot of people were there and they had eats and drinks and games for the kids.  Fiona and Soren had a good time as did we.

We then left Kars Park and went to Georgia to house and dogsit.  We were there from February 2nd through February 22.  We got to spend alot of time with our grandchildren.

While we were there several snow storms came through but we didn't mind the change in weather.

While we were there we celebrated Soren's first birthday.

They decided they wanted to move back to Florida so on the 22nd we helped them pack up the house and move back down to Florida.  Well, I mostly just watched the grandkids which of course I enjoyed.

 

We got the RV out of storage at Kars Park and stayed there until March 1st then went to Whispering Pines Mobile Home RV Park up in Titusville for the month while our friends Lou and Yvonne (and Ty's friend Buster) were there. Yvonne and I went to Bingo and I won the first game! We also went to one of the music nights were about six of the residents performed. They were quite good. Everyone at the park were really friendly and Bill even helped one elderly resident move into one of the homes.

We also watched the Space Shuttle land.   I had seen many liftoffs but  this was the first landing I had seen. 

Here is a picture of our friend Brooke for his first skydive out in Central Florida where we went and watched him and his daughter in law Jennifer who loved it.  One of these days I will get the courage to try it myself....maybe when I am 60?

In April we went to Patrick AFB  and had an awesome sight across from the Banana River. We washed and waxed the RV right there on sight as I was doing in this picture.

 Some of the male Rv campers came up to Bill and wanted to know how did he get me to do that as there wives would no way get up there.

We biked around the base a few times and Bill had the urge to bike over this levee or whatever you call it.

We went up to Palm Coast one day while Debbie and Brooke were visiting Bill and Maureen who had bought a nice house on the canal up there. We went to the Moose Lodge and had a few drinks and ended up spending the night, had some Mimosas and breakfast before we headed back to Patrick AFB.

 Lindsey and Dzmitry and some of there friends came down for a long weekend vacation and for Fiona's fourth birthday and we rented a pantoon boat for four hours in Sebastian.

 Their friend Dan did most of the driving, then Dzmitry.  It was fun cruising the Indian River and the Sebastian Inlet and stopping at an island to eat our lunch.  We saw lots of dolphins on this trip, more than I have ever seen at one time.   We then had dinner later that night at one of our favorite places, Grill's.

Fiona's fourth birthday was at Riverside Park in Vero Beach and it was hot and humid.  The kids had fun in the pool and on the beach.  I think Fiona had an awesome time.

On Sunday May 1st we went to my mothers house to visit for the last time before we left for our trip North and to leave our kayaks there in her garage and while Bill was unloading them, the wind picked up and pushed the Kayak off the car. We did not know it but Lucky was right by Bill and even though he caught the kayak, part of it hit Lucky on a diagonal across his back. We had to rush him to an emergency Vet where they took Xrays and said nothing was broken but he probably had disc damage and we needed to bring him back the next day. Well we were headed for South Carolina the next day so we decided to find a Vet up there to have him checked out. 

We left Kars Park the next day and started our four month trip up the East Coast.