March 13th - March 14th, 2023

 

The time to head out on our trip to Florida has arrived on a beautiful sunny March day. First we headed to Kensington PEI to attend a beautiful service for Judy's Mom who had passed away. Between the visiting hours and funeral Su, Grun, Deb, Greg and we gathered for a quick lunch to catch up on everyone's lives. 

We left PEI and had a great drive to Fredericton to spend the night with Billy and take Jack and Meg out for dinner at The Rogue

A snow storm coming up the eastern seaboard is throwing a bit of a wrench in our travel plans. We headed out on Tuesday at 4am from Billy's, crossed the border at 5:30 and headed down the 95 towards NH. No rain until the NH border and then it turned to heavy snow. Time to get off the road. Booked into a Hilton in Haverhill, Mass. Had a brunch at a quaint little corner diner in downtown called Mark's Deli with homemade greek sausages. Interesting. Had an early dinner and early to bed. Hope the storm will be gone overnight and we will be back on the road. Think we will try the 95 this year 

Feb 27th, 2023 .

 Two weeks from today and we will be packing the car for our trip to Florida. Temperature today in Fort Lawrence is -15, feels like -21. Trips in 2020 and 2021 did not happen due to Covid. The 2022 adventure was great but different - no shows, ball games, restaurants (except outside), no Daytona golf. All still nervous about Covid

April 23rd - 26th , 2018, Florida

On the way home and rain all the way. Up the 275, 75, 301, 77, 81, 84, 87, 90, 495, 95 and across the border. Third night we stayed in Bath at Brian and Rosemary's. The travel and traffic were good with only a couple held ups thru Charlotte and around Scranton. Good to be home

April 18th - April 22nd, 2018

What a busy week with a lot of Amherst folks around, Karen and Elaine at FH with us, the McKees down the road,

the Martin's heading home early due to a medical problem. lots of time on the beach, swimming (watch out for the Sting Rays who are on a stinging spree), yoga, barbecues, Jen and Rick for dinner, dinner at TJ's with Elaine and Karen, last supper at Guppy's with Paul, Judy, Greg and Deb. shopping at Beall's,

April 15th - April 17th, 2018

Monday, the day after the storm was windy and cold. A lot of people in long pants and shirts and the beach was a very lonely place. We had a barbecue with Greg and Deb at their cute spot before we headed to airport to pick up Karen and Elaine. They were lucky and made their connection in Toronto, the last two on the plane.
Tuesday the 17th, is warm, sunny and still breezy. The gang from Amherst gathered around our umbrella and we had a lovely day chatting, walking, reading, swimming, laughing. At 3 pm we did get a group picture of the Amherst group ( a few missing and they arrived 15 min late) and the boys had their Investment Group picture taken.

 The Cormiers, Hatheways, Smiths, Carrs, Sigits, VanVulpen, VanSnick, MacLeods, MacEacherns, Brennans

 Donnie, Roy, Jim, Bernie, Joe, Rick, Corey, Barry, Paul

Jenn Brennan

 Umbrella trouble

Jen VanSnick

 After a late afternoon on the beach we barbecued with Karen and Elaine and then a visit to Friendly's

April 9th - 14th, 2018

Monday is another beautiful day to walk, yoga class, afternoon on the beach with Vicki, Rosemary, Judy and Karen, big salad for dinner and finish the evening off with a hot tub session

Tuesday morning the rain, wind and lighting came so it was a shopping day at Bealls and lunch at Miller's Pub. The boys were rained out in Daytona also. The McKees arrived today for 2 weeks. The weather cleared in the evening and the girls headed out to a delicious dinner ay Guppy's - scallops, salmon and crab cakes.

The next couple days were hot, sunny and beach days but we had to say goodbye to Vicki on Wed and Rosemary on Thurs but hello to the guys arriving back from golf. Only 4 games this year, cool temps, no swimming but did have a good time and watched the Masters. The Hatheways came for dinner, spotted the space station and then an early night. On Friday it was walk and yoga morning and another afternoon on the beach. The MacEacherns, McKees and us headed to the Martins for a great pasta dinner, lots of stories ( Paul and the float plane and alligators), laughs, sunset and memories. 

Paul, Judy, Deb, Greg, Jenn, Bernie, Gisele, Fred

April 7th - 8th, 2018

Saturday was beautiful and we spent the whole day on the beach, swimming, reading, relaxing, etc. At supper time a huge rain and wind storm formed on the horizon and headed south of us - we only a bit of it for 1/2 an hour. Gorgeous to watch

 Sunday was Rosemary's day - her birthday as well as my little brother Alan's birthday. Karen had the girls in for brunch, birthday cake and girl pictures before we spent the day on the beach. To top the day off we had a delicious dinner at Guppy's restaurant at Indian Rocks - scallops, crab cakes, salmon, lobsters scargos and of course a glass of wine. The boys are having fun golfing in Daytona

Jenn, Karen, Vicki, Rosemary, Judy and Auntje (Judy's sister in law)

Modeling the prom dress