Nice Visit

Great to have friends drop in to see you when you are 1500 miles from home!!  We had Laura and Alex stop in last Saturday for a visit.  Alex and Tom used to work together at Carevest.  We had not seen them for some time and it was great that they were able to come our way during their travels.

They had been down at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and were on their way to Clearwater before heading home to Ontario.  Coming our way was definitely out of their way.  A much faster trip would have been on the Tamiami Highway.  But they put in a long day of driving to arrive in time for happy hour with a big package of steaks in hand!!  We had a great bbq and a great visit.  They spent the night on our blow-up sofa and declared it to be very comfortable.    Sunday morning after breakfast they said goodbye and continued their travels before we headed out for our kayak trip to Crystal River.

Like I said, it is sure nice when friends make the effort to find us way down here in the Sun Shine State.



More friends are now down visiting in the park.  Old friends of John & Judy's - Debbie and Gerard - arrived Monday afternoon to spend a couple of weeks here in Rainbow.  Great to see them again.  Gerard has joined Tom and John for the early morning walks and Deb has joined Judy and I.  Nice to have more company while we blast around the park getting our daily exercise.  Welcome you two.  Glad you had a safe trip down.

Had a great Facetime with Granddaughter, Taylor today.  She is an EMR working in the oilfields in Alberta.  Today she is working at a pipe line construction site.  She is really pleased that this site has a heated cook trailer and a heated port-a-pottie!!  Her last job site had neither.  Kind of difficult to trudge through 6 feet of snow to go behind a tree!!  This morning when we were chatting it was -27'.  That is pretty cool but warmer than the -35' they had last weekend.

Because she is the only Emergency Medical Responder on site she has to stay there as long as the men are working.  Usually from about 8:00 to 5:00.  Makes for a long day when rarely there is a situation requiring her attention. But she has to be on the spot just in case of a medical emergency.  Long hours but she loves the job.  That's my girl!!

Until next time - safe travels.