Jennifer at the Nationals

Just finished our plans for a two week stay in Port Charlotte, Florida over the Christmas Holidays.  We have rented a lovely property with a large salt water pool.  It also is right on a canal which will make the kayaking easy and convenient.  Just need to find out if it is salt or fresh water....alligators or not???  The flights are booked and we are organized.  Get those kayaks ready John and Judy...do they have repellent for alligators?

My stepdaughter, Jennifer, just returned from Vancouver where she completed in the Canadian Nationals.  She didn't place this time but she deserves a big round of applause for all the hard work she did to get into such awesome shape.  Here are a few of the pictures taken at the competition.

  

She has been doing body building and gymnastics for years and has competed in numerous competitions.  She is really dedicated and works extremely hard at it.  Not bad for an old lady that will be 35 on Christmas Day!!

After the competition she had a photo shoot on the beach with her fellow competitor and friend Emmanuela.

Jen is back in Ontario and back to work but the gym time for her never stops.  She is lucky she has a job that allows for many hours in the gym and no kids to keep track of.

On Sept 9th she will be participating in the big move cancer ride.  In honor of her late friend Sasha she will be rollerblading 50k.  The money raised will go to support the Walkerville Cancer Centre.

We had met Sasha a few times.  She was a lovely girl and she lost her life to cancer at such a young age.  We will be cheering Jen on and applaud her effort to raise cancer awareness in her age group.

We are proud of you Jenny and love you lots.

Until next time - safe travels.