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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Puerto Rico and Tampa

Wow playing catch up is brutal I'll try to just be better at staying up to date on my posts:) We arrived safely in Tampa only to turn around early the next morning and take Danny to the airport to catch his flight to Puerto Rico. My parents stuck around for the majority of the week though to help out with the kids and just to play. And man did we play:) We spent a day down in Sebring, FL visiting my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Stan and getting a taste of the sweet Florida retired life. I tell you what, there is a reason so many people retire to Florida and it isn't just the weather. The Sebring Diner was kickin', no joke. It's like spring break only it's in the winter... and Bingo replaces some of the other activities:). I keep telling Danny, we're already half way to the sweet life, we own a bus and he plays golf every day.
We had a blast once we got back to Tampa as well. We hit the park, story time at the local library and Chic-fil-a (like three times, someday ask me to get on my chic-fil-a soap box... I'm a fan) One of the highlights of the week was going to Clearwater Beach. We weren't planning on swimming so we came a little unprepared but the boys didn't seem to mind and by the time we left were strutting around in their underoos for all the coeds down there on spring break. We had such a fun week with my parents and they saved me from a week of way too many chick flicks and at least a carton of icecream.
Due to a very fortunate delayed flight my parents didn't leave until Friday morning and due to an almost as fortunate missed cut (at least for me) I got Danny home Friday night. So you see things worked out just swimmingly>We had a blast Saturday with Danny. We took the boys to the Tampa children's museum and burned a good 3 hours there and then came home for a sports marathon. These consist of Jack and Patton getting into the bay of our bus where we store all of our athletic equipment and systematically removing one ball at a time until they've played every sport imaginable and then we all go inside and crash. They're very fun! Danny told me I have to stop praying for him to miss the cut but if we keep having as much fun as we have been on Saturdays I just don't see that happening:) Sunday we went to church at a ward there in Tampa and I got to teach primary. I overheard a poor Primary president frantically trying to cover for 4 missing teachers so I told her if they would let me take Patton to nursery (he's still a month shy of being legit) than I would teach. I had a fun time with the 7-8 year olds and it was good for me to get to contribute at church (something I really miss believe it or not).
That afternoon we moved the bus up to the golf course (we had been staying at an RV park) where they were letting us park for the week. But this gets me into the next week so I'll start a new post for that...





1 comment:

Julie Thurgood Summerhays said...

I always remember that you love Chic-fil-a:) Glad you have fun on your Saturdays though and glad you got to teach at Primary - I know I would be SO grateful if I was that Pres. trying to find a last minute sub - you are awesome!!!