MOTHER'S DAY 2008

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

I received these beautiful roses from Mike and Amity. Thank you so much, they are so lovely. What a wonderful surprise. I have to say our children are awsome. They are all very successful and productive adults. Mike being a motor yacht captain, Sandy a contract flight attendant for some major corporations and private and professional individuals and athelites and Karen, an owner of two beautiful scrapbooking and stamp stores. My gosh, what more could a mother want or hope for to have for their children. Blessed, you bet, Proud, absolutely, so Mothers out there we all have an absolute right to BRAG. God love them all.

Karen Sandy Michael

TREES ON OATLAND ISLAND, SAVANNAH, GA

I love the different textures of bark on the various trees that we see thru out the different areas that we visit. These trees are all located at the Wildlife Center in Savanna, GA.

A DAY IN VENICE, FLORIDA

CHEERS!!!!

What a great day. We had lunch with our good friends, Janet and Rudy Sparks. The four of us drove over to Venice, Fl mainly to see the sunset on the beach. This is our first stop though, we are on Venice Ave enjoying a great lunch outside this very nice eatery. Once done there, the guys drove over to an RV dealership to check out their motor/homes. While they did that Janet and I walked the Avenue, went in and out so many of the great stores there, we tried on dresses, went to an art gallery and just had a relaxing afternoon. I did buy one thing for our RV lot, picture below.

We drove down to the beach, it was really nice, there is a bar there called Sharkey's. It's the only one in town right on the gulf so you can imagine how busy it gets. We walked onto the fishing pier, watched the folks fish awhile, then the guys went up to the deck of the restaurant and Janet and I walked on the beach for a little while.
































Now this is what we really came all the way over here for. It is so breathtaking, we stayed until the sun was totally over the horizon, the different colors it goes thru are just magnificent, I can't get enough pics of sunrises or sunsets. Enjoy!!!

THOMAS, YOU WILL BE MISSED

On March 10, 2008, our nephew Thomas Arthur Johnson went to be with our Lord, after a very short illness. We received the phone call from my brother-in-law and I could hardly believe my ears. It was such a shock that in this day and age that anyone, especially a young man of only 42 years, could pass away from pneumonia, but he did and the reality of it hit when I got to their home in Little Rock, AR. Thomas was such a great fella, he was loved by so many people and he will be missed by his family, co-workers and the children at Holy Souls school where he worked for 2 years.

Good bye, Thomas, we miss you terribly, keep watch on us all.

A COLLAGE OF OUR JUNGLE QUEEN TRIP

Can't quite figure out how to place this collage with the original post with the bus on it, so I had to create another one. Oh well. These are really cute pics of just some of the people that went on the trip.

A GIFT FOR LILY FROM LINDA

Linda made this beautiful golf towel for Lily and presented it to her when we were all having breakfast at the Ding-a-Ling Deli last Saturday morning. What a thoughtful gift for our little

golfer, she and her daddy thank you very much.

Lily thought it would be fun to sit in the little basket in the back of the golf cart, she held on tight and off we were for 9 holes of golf, not good golf, mind you, just golf. It was a really fun day.

OUR ADVENTURE ON THE JUNGLE QUEEN

Joe and Debbie put together a great evening for over 58 people from the Big O RV Park. Our driver was very nice and he got us to Ft Lauderdale, FL so we could all enjoy a wonderful dinner cruise on the famous JUNGLE QUEEN. The JUNGLE QUEEN has been in operation in Ft Lauderdale for 65 years. It cruises down the New River and the announcer on the boat points out the beautiful mansions that sit on the water front and gives us some history of them, like who owns them and how many millions they cost and then there are all of the mega yachts that sit in front of these homes. It's really something to see.

We left at 3:00 pm and arrived in Ft Lauderdale at 5:30, we boarded the boat and off we were exactly at 6:00 pm. Once we arrived on the island where we were to have dinner they met us at the dock and guided all of us to the area where we were to eat. It was an all you can eat ribs, chicken and shrimp dinner with a few side dishes and then dessert. Oh my gosh, did we take advantage of the "all you can eat" part. It was very, very good. After our meal we went outside to a stage where we were entertained by a comedian and a ventrilaquist. The evening was really great and I want to thank Joe and Debbie for coming up with this idea and organizing the whole event.