Water Barrel Delivery Service

Sam and A2- we are headed your way with your water barrel- see you this evening :)

Happy Birth Day TODAY

Hailey Pete- born at 10 am. this morning. 6 lbs.14 oz. and 20 inches. I'm sure we will have pictures of her later :)

Date Night

After our vacation week of being together 24/7, Ron and I were happy to do "our own thing" this week. He had just started reading a new book on the way back from Florida, so he was more than happy to sit in his corner with his book. I had stuff to do- laundry, cleaning, shopping, unpacking, etc. Sometimes we were both home, but on separate computers (like now :) Of course we each had our own jobs to take care of. Ron has his Quicken and financial stuff to do and he did spend some time cleaning his car. On Friday evening we discovered some thing fun though. (Remember when we were looking for a drive-in movie theater just south of Dallas? When we were looking for that one, we also found one close to Katy. I also had a friend tell me that there was one close to Katy) We decided to go find it. (Ron will usually go for any suggestion I might have for a Friday evening activity!) It took us about 35 minutes to get there, and it was a very pleasant drive- NOT IN TRAFFIC :). The theater is just north and west of where we live. The movie that we saw was "Ice Age 3". The whole drive-in movie idea is a fun kind of entertainment. People go early, take the kids (and the dog:), take the pick up truck, take blankets, lawn chairs, (and mattresses:). Eat junk food and hang around until the movie starts.
Since we had just eaten dinner, that saved us from the hot dogs, hamburgers, cotton candy, chips, nachos, etc. But we did give in to the popcorn and slushy drinks.
We may do it often, although maybe not when it's so hot out side. (It was still rather warm at 9 pm on Friday evening.)
This activity is perfect for a convertible car though!

Strange Bird

Here is a strange Florida bird-

two heads and four legs :)

Okay...so there were actually

two of them- one behind the other.

These were walking around the

lake at Star Island. We went to

the swimming pool twice, but we

didn't try out the paddle boats, jet skis,

or canoes.

Crabs and Ducks

This is Ron trying to be a sand crab.

This is the real sand crab.

This is me trying to be a "duck" and let the water run off. When you are standing in line for a ride and the sign says "You may get wet"- believe it. The only good thing about going on a water ride at 5:00 pm was that it started raining like crazy at 7:00 pm when we were walking out to the parking lot- and it didn't matter, we were already soaked.

We Are Home from Star Island

We had a great week in Florida. Driving home from the airport today, Ron realized that we spent the entire week together- "we never went off to do our own thing". (He said, I didn't even go shopping :) The picture above is the one from the resort that I tried to post all week, but the Internet connection was too slow for that. I'll post a few more pics. this next week and my "what not to do list". Remember, that's why we went... to figure out "what not to do" on another trip there. We have decided, we will wait 3 years and then take the grand kids there.

This is me after eating out in restaurants all week :)

We Are Still Here...

at The Star Island Resort, but going home tomorrow. We have managed to find a few things to do :) We sat on the Melbourne beach one evening, watching the sand crabs. We went to the Titanic museum. We realized that if we came to central Florida and did not go to one of the theme parks, we would never heard the end of that from the kids- so we went to Disney World Animal Kingdom. We went to the pool here at Star Island yesterday and they had fireworks last night. Although any activities yesterday were done in between rain showers! We are going to The Blue Man show at the Universal theme park tonight. I will give more details and pictures on some of these things after we get home. I am still having some trouble with the Internet connection here.