Cool Change Travels & Adventures: December 18 - December 25, Merritt Island, FL

Merry Christmas to all of you. We've just reached the end of a lovely, memorable day. Thank you, Roger and Marcy and Marla and Al, for sharing your grandchildren and children with us this holiday season. We have missed our families but you have welcomed us and fed us and gifted us and made this day a lot of fun. We are stuffed with Grandma Dorothy's ambrosia, Marcy's quiche and cinnamon coffee cake, Marla's unique sweet potatoes, Cathy's yummy cake and Al's well-carved turkeys, to mention just a little bit of the foods on which we've feasted today.

The Glover's loaner truck. We are so grateful to have this set of wheels while we're here!

It has been a busy week. Both of us have been ill with a horrible cold (yes,Wayne did share his wet, headachy, cough and sore throat "gift" with me - and I could not find a single store to which I could return it). We made it to Orlando last week and enjoyed a long-time tradition of cookie decorating with Wayne's youngest brother, Harlan, and his wife, Patty, and also got to see our nephews, Kyle and Mark. We attended a fun dinner party with old friends, John and Peggy. Peggy and I taught together in 1976-77. Guests at the party just happened to include a former math teacher of Patrick's and her husband who was a customer of Thrailkill Bike and Mower, our Orlando business from 1976-1997. Small world. We had planned to spend the day on Tuesday with daughter-in-law, Maria, and grandgirls Jackie and Kate but Colleen was sick and very contagious by then so we just got to give them a quick hello and good-bye. So difficult to do : (

Boat news - Bow thrusters are repaired and working well; aft cabin sump pump has been replaced; hopefully we've diagnosed and cured the problem of water getting into the front berth by redirecting the drain scupper on the anchor locker in the bow. So....when we're ready to move on in about ten days we should be in perfect working order.