Going flying!

Marc called and asked us to meet him at No. County Airport, so here we are and about to take off! Wooohooo...
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Friday fun...

TGIF, so that means Scotty B's tonight with Wade and Ginger! Well, the place has sold and changed names, but somehow or other, it'll always remain Scotty B's to us.
It is sunny and beautiful here in WPB, and the wind is not blowing very much today--finally! This has been the coolest and windiest winter we've had since we've been doing our moho living. At least the weather has been better here than back in Mayberry.

So what are we doing today? Dick put distilled water in the moho batteries and did a little other piddly maintenance. He is even contemplating washing the moho, since it is so nice outside. I need to run out a get a few items on my list and do a little straightening up inside. I think we can handle all this without too much stress!

Just another day in paradise. Hope y'all are expecting a good weekend. We sure are! Go out and have some fun. Life is good!

Thursday things...

I finally got pictures downloaded last night from our Cruise and Crop on the Monarch of the Seas adventure last weekend. Here are a few of the journals that were submitted for judging on various categories. Haley's winning journal in the one on the far R:

And Joy's winning entry is the one above on the L - "Thinking outside the box" - she cut strips of paper to look like piano keys on the left-hand side of the journal. Pretty clever! She is VERY musical--plays the piano, organ, and sings beautifully...played the cello in her youth...disgustingly talented. And she is a sweetie. Now she is gonna put various musical pictures on the inside. Oh yes, her two daughters are also musical, along with her brother and nephew........no lack of musical talent in that family!

Here we all are hard at work cutting, pasting, stamping, coloring...thanks to Dick for catching this shot...

Queen of the Crop Haley and Joy with their winning entries...

And the whole Mayberry group all gussied up for dinner...

Hope y'all enjoyed cruising with us. Who wants to go next time?

Fun in the Bahamas...

Sandy and Joy in Nassau, with three ships in the background...

Shells for sale...but we resisted temptation.

Haley and Amy having fun...
Beer wagon on CocoCay...

Dick on the beach, but where's the beer???


The day was sunny, but that water was still cold...
As you can see, we had fun. The ship was an older, smaller one. And........the captain was Captain Karin, the very first FEMALE cruise captain anywhere! We were quite thrilled to sail with her. Gals sure have come a long way!

We began today with breakfast at John G's (gosh, it's been a week since we've been there!), taking Bill and Barbara, since they've never been and we just have to fix that! Then I'll fill in at the park office today, since the office is short handed. Enjoy this Ash Wesnesday! Hmm, time to think about giving up chocolate for Lent. Who is joining me???

Fat Tuesday...

Go ahead, let the good times roll on this last day of Mardi Gras. I'm wearing my beads...Dick asked what I did to get them. Haha...I'll never tell!

We'll go to St. Andrew's tonight for the traditional pancake supper that signals Lent is beginning tomorrow.

Who out there has attended a 'real' Mardi Gras celebration? When...where? I'd love to go to New Orleans one of these days to celebrate there...well, I don't really like big crowds, so I probably will never attend other than through what we see on TV. Oh well...

Happy Fat Tuesday, y'all! Party safe!

Home again, home again...

Well, not the real home home in Mayberry...we are back at the moho in W Palm Beach, our winter home.

We had a fine time on the Monach of the Seas, most especially because of daughters Haley and Amy being there with us, along with friends Joy and Debora. We are unpacked, clothes are washed and in various stages of hanging around inside drying (I can't dry them all the way in the dryer b/c they'll be all wrinkled). The suitcases are stowed...snailmail is picked up and dealt with (for the most part). Reality. No Royal Servants...no one to bring our dinner to the table; no one to turn down our bed. Dang. Why'd we leave the cruise ship???

Missy was happy to see us, even though the sitter spoiled her terribly. She'll probably be ready for us to leave soon so Dottie can come back and spoil her!

Us gals had 'stampin' fun' and got a lot accomplished, well, SOME of us did. And Haley won Queen of the Crop...and Joy was selected as a member of the court! I'll get the photos downloaded soon and show y'all their projects. It was sooo fun seeing our two sweeties...and Joy and Debora, too, of course. Amy informed our waiter that last night was her dad's birthday, so they made a fuss over him, which he loved. He enjoyed his birthday, and appreciates all the nice birthday wishes.

Brian is home after his Cali-Cali adventure with the Tour (glad he did it, but probably won't do it again)...the girls are almost home...and I promise to make the rounds of my fave blogs and get caught up! Whew...it sure takes time...and I survived being 'computerless' for the weekend, but I missed everyone in cyberspace!

Are y'all ready for Mardi Gras? Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday) is tomorrow, so pancake supper it will be. I'll have to pull out my beads to wear. Do you have yours???

Day 3 - Cococay - and Happy Birthday!

Think Dick needs new Birkies for his birthday? Naw...he glued this one back and it's good as new! Happy birthday, honey!


We'll be spending the day on Cococay. How's that for having some birthday fun? Not bad!

Well, I'll go to the Travel Journal class at 9 before heading to the beach. The crop queen will be crowned at 3 this afternoon, but that isn't high on my list of things to do today, our last day of the cruise!

Out having fun in the sun. Life is good!