Another Beautiful Florida Sunset and a great Brother in law and sister

10 Days in Paradise (Florida)

At least it seemed like paradise while we were there. We only had to look at the weather back home and see that the temperature was 10 below 0 and then go out walking on the beach in the 80 degree sunshine of Florida to make it seem like we were in paradise. What a fun time!! We went to bed when we wanted, got up when we wanted, ate when we wanted and just spent hours visiting with my sister and her husband. In a couple of minutes we were on the beach with the warm sunshine, 80 degree temperature, and a gentle sea breeze. You really have to wonder why we live where we do when we could enjoy this kind of life.

I spend some time doing little things around the house to help out. Balancing an overhead fan, repairing a door lock, installing computer programs, repairing lighting fixtures, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. All things that I really enjoyed doing. The ladies talked and talked (and did I mention talked and talked?) It just seems to me that after several hours of talking, that you would have said everything that could be said, but then they would go at it again for several more hours. I guess it's a female thing that the guys will never understand. We had wonderful meals three times a day, and all the snacks you could eat in between. A trip to the French bakery for baguettes and pain au chocolat will be long remembered.

I had taken a small portable photo printer with me, and as we took some pictures of our comings and goings, I printed them out. When I get to where I can hook my camera up to the computer, I will post a couple of pictures that will give some idea of the fun time we had. It was hard to leave, when our time was up, and even harder to get to our snow covered car and drive through the snowstorm and the canyon to our home. Our neighbor had watched over our home and all was well upon our arrival. We are almost adjusted to the time change, but not to the cold (right now 17 degrees) weather. We do have to say, though, that the snow is quite beautiful. Is there any way that we could have the snow and the sunny beach? I guess that can only happen in our dreams and memories, . . . of which we have many.