We had a great time back with family and friends. As always,
it just didn’t last long enough! We have too many people to try and see and not
enough time.
Billy, Chelle and I got together with our cousins Tammy and
her husband Barry, Donna, Danny, and our uncle Dan. We had seen Tammy and Barry
during the summer and wanted to spend more time with them. You all know how it
goes, we have family and friends we want to see, but just don’t make definite
plans and the time slips away. So, before we left Vero heading back we set a
definite date and time and made it happen. And we are all glad we did it and
want to get together again when we get back up there.
We had our usual get together at Chilie Rojo for fun and
great food. We saw George and Pam, David and Betty, and Mike and Phyllis there. Chelle and I went on several long hard walks and loved
spending that time with each other. I went back and forth to daddy’s several times during our
two weeks back. Chelle and I both spent a night at daddy’s and we haven’t
done that in years! We ate way too much good rich food and had several “carb
comas” as a result of it! Lauren didn’t spend as much time back home as usual, so we
tried to cram as much time together as we could. We did our usual day after
Christmas returning and shopping.
My family all had Christmas at Daddy’s on Christmas Eve as
usual. We had a great time. We were very busy with lots of eating, talking and
laughing going on.
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Michael, Ethan, Sarah and Michelle |
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Michael, E-man and Sasa |
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Me and my babe, Lauren |
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Lauren and Sarah |
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Billy and Daddy |
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Daddy and his crew |
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Daddy and his baby girl |
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Daddy and his oldest daughter, as he introduces me |
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Papa and his babies. |
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Sarah, Rascal and Papa |
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Rascal loving on Sarah |
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Us |
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Daddy in his favorite chair with some of his favorites |
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Me and my "first child". I love her so much! |
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Three peas in a pod. |
Shay, Jason, Travis, Lauren, Jean and I had a great
breakfast prepared by Lauren Christmas morning and then opened gifts Christmas.
We all got too much stuff and were very blessed.
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Jean and all the kids. Look at those yummy desserts.
Wish I had some of those now! I would really appreciate them now!!
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Jean, kids, in-laws, except Lisa. You left too early! |
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Shay, Jenny, Phil, and Joey. |
As always, the trip is too short and it’s time to head back.
We will start looking for a weather window as soon as we can. You never know,
we could get really, really, really lucky and get one in the next few days!
Well, the weather has not cooperated, but hey, Vero is still
a great place to be “stuck”. We keep seeing more boaters coming in. Some stay
for a while and others are just overnighters.
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Beautiful sunset at Vero |
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Full moon on New Year's Eve. Beautiful weather. We ate dinner outside.
A nice change from the NC weather.
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We’ve enjoyed spending time with Richard and Connie and had
several great meals with them. Connie had us over for her “ham junk” a few days
after New Year’s. Yum. Then she had us over another night for crockpot meatloaf
and veggies. Another masterpiece.
The only thing missing is Five Flip Flops. We have spent
some time with them since we’ve been here but the boat is MIA. They left it in
Daytona for a paint job and it ain’t going well. There have been major delays
and problems so Sir David has gone up and been the overseer. The job was
supposed to be a 2 week job and at the end of two weeks he went up to see the
progress and there was NONE. The guy had told him they were sanding and stuff,
but they had not been. So he stayed and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally
after about 8 weeks, many discussions, and much ranting from David the job was
finished and they got out! They are slowly making their way down to Vero for
provisioning and a weather window.
As usual, Shay had been doing hours of weather watching each
day. Listening to Chris Parker, looking at lots of weather sites, and
discussing options with David, our weather guru.
It’s January 22, 2018, and we have left Vero heading to Lake Worth. It will be a long day
for us; we usually take 2 days for the trip. But we want to leave in the
morning from Lake Worth so on we go.