A Day at Allaire State Park and the Pine Creek RR

The kids had a great day riding the train at the Pine Creek RR in Allaire State Park. They got to ride in the cupola in the caboose. In addition to the train ride, we walked around the old village and visited the bakery.

Today: Sugar Cookies!

The Five Bakers show off their Sugar Cookies!

The flour was flying! In the last two days, the Five Bakers made fudge, butter and chocolate chip cookies and a few dozen sugar cookies. Outside of the kitchen, they helped make two grave blankets, visited the Cemetery and sang a Christmas song to Mom Mom and Pop Pop as well as Anna Marie's Mom and Dad.

The Christmas Season Has Started!

Our five grandchildren are visiting this weekend. On Friday, we tie-dyed white "T"shirts using red and green dye. On Saturday, we made five pounds of fudge (dark chocolate,  peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter, mint chocolate and strawberry) before heading out to see the Christmas Parade in Ship Bottom. When we got back, we made 10 dozen butter cookies, toll house cookies in milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and mint chocolate. Tomorrow, we'll make sugar cookies before heading out to make grave blankets and a trip to the cemetery.

The kids are having a great time and they even want to go to the cemetery so they can talk to Mom Mom with us.

The kids show off their first batch of cookies.

Granny and the kids in their tie dyed shirts with the fruits of our toils - cookies and fudge!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Hau’oli La Ho’omakika’i (pronounced how-oh-lay la ho-o-ma-key-kah-ee)

A Short Drive Home!

SUNSHINE was moved to the marina last Monday. The rest of the day was spent preparing the boat for a short lay up while we go home to play with the grandkids!

On Tuesday, we drove up to New Smyrna Beach to visit friends. On Wednesday, we headed north and stopped to camp in Florence, SC. The following day, we camped in Chincoteague, VA and on Friday, we finished the drive home, after meeting friends for lunch at the Elmer Diner.

Completing the trip in four comparatively short days made for easy driving and we managed to miss all of the rush hour traffic.

We're ready for Thanksgiving and in about a week, we'll be ready for Christmas too.

Aviation Day at Marathon Airport

Aviation Day at Marathon Airport

Experimental Airplane

Sky Divers

About to land

A day at the Pool!

After days of rigorous exercise, we decided that today would be a good day to try out the pool at Banana Bay. So we hopped on our bikes for the 1/2 mile ride to the resort. We spent several hours by the pool and perhaps 1/2 hour in the hot tub. A great remedy for a sore back!

At about 1600 hours, we returned to the boat and relaxed for awhile before grilling a nice, juicy steak for dinner, which we enjoyed al fresco in the cockpit.

This is the view sunset we enjoyed from our back porch.