Fishing on the Indian River

I don't have any fish pictures for this post but we did have fun last night catching them. We caught a grooper, a snapper and a catfish. When Jim released the catfish, it stung him and boy did it hurt. We soaked his hand and put on all sorts of hopeful remedies, by 1 am he said it was finally feeling better.

We lit a fire lastnight and roasted some marshmellows, it's Thursday and the ne-see-'ems are still in full force. Unless the wind is blowing with a little bit of strength they lite on you and boy do they bite. Unless we are at the ocean beach where the wind always blows, there is no relief unless we are indoors. So far this is the only downer here. It would also have been great to have a boat or our kayacks. Oh well, now we know.

We were planning on driving to TN, IN and IL on our treck across country, but with all of the tornadoes and the flooding going on in the Midwestern part of our great country, we have decided to take I10 and drive towards New Mexico and then towards Oregon from there. That's the update for now.

JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE BEACH

The beach here is really beautiful. Lily played for 5 hours, running in and out of the waves. She really had fun and so did we.

LONG POINT CAMPGROUND, MELBOURNE, FL

Lily is off to fish with Papa this morning. Papa went to the little store and brought back some live shrimp to fish with, after loosing several to the little swimmers, finally one was caught. Not sure what it is but it was fun to catch and we put it back in for another day.

GRADULATIONS!!!!!! FOR LILY KAI

Yes that is correct, according to Lily. It's GRADULATIONS!!! Quit clever, if I say so myself. She has the combination of both words, I couldn't even come up with a fun word like that. We really enjoyed going to Lily's gradulation party at St Jerome's school in Ft Lauderdale, FL. It was held in the church and Msg. Swanger was handing out the diplomas for the children that graduated from Kindergarten. The other classes, pre-k 3 and 4 entertained with several songs that they practiced over and over to which Lily almost lost her little voice.

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!!!