After returning from
Australia, it was time to visit the US family some more. We headed to Wyoming
for another visit with Leslie’s mother and sister for a couple of weeks. Leslie
reviewed her mother’s Social Security options while we were there. How in the
world does the government expect older citizens go through this whole Medicare
parts and figure out what is best for them?
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| huge veggies Leslie cousin grows |
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| deer in Ally's back yard |
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| Mom, Ally and Lila |
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| we all feast |
Ally hosted an early family
Thanksgiving dinner which was magnificent! It was great seeing all the family
together. It was a wonderful dinner.
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| David and family |
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Jessie with two of her kids
Mckay and Davidson |
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| Mckay |
On our way down to Tampa to
visit with Aron’s family we stopped in Tennessee so Leslie could have the
implant put into her mouth. We got to
see Dave and his family neat to stay with ones dentist. Carl got to experience an old time hardware
store and was tasked with removing Leslie’s stitches in 14 days.
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| Madison at the museum |
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| We shoot Madison out of a cannon |
It was great seeing Aron, Katie and the kids.
We had a great time down south and took the opportunity to spend a couple days
visiting my brother Bret and his family as well as cousin Anita and her family.
We also spent a day visiting Frantz and Xaiver, two French men we met during
our sail with the kids 25 years ago, who we hadn’t seen since our trip. While with Aron, Carl got to remove the 3
stitches. He is starting to get quite good at it.
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| Bret's daughter Arcadia |
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| Darryl, Bret and VAl |
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| Xaiver, Leslie and Frantz |
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Anita, Julie, Jennifer, Yvone,
Paul, and Leslie |
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| The family at the cabin |
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| Cloe and Cole |
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| a float at the parade |
For Thanksgiving we got the
whole family together at a log cabin in the mountains of northern Georgia. It
was cozy and it even dusted snow on Thanksgiving Day. The local town of Blue Ridge had their annual
Christmas parade. Amazing floats for a
small town.
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| Tali and Cloe with St Nick |
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| the guys skating with the girls |
For Christmas we were up in
St. Louis with Eric, Kelly, and the girls. What a great time! We visited old St
Charles where they had a Christmas program with dozens of people playing
various Christmas characters. It was also Cloe’s Birthday and we brought the
girls to an ice skating rink for their first experience ice skating. They did
very well, especially Tali. She was skating on her own after only an hour of
help.
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| Cloe's birthday |
We headed down to Tampa for
New Years We had a family game night and
watched the ball fall with Aron’s family, Paul and Genny, the in laws.
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| New Year's Dinner |
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Madison and Cole in their natural
pose |
With the start of the new
year we headed down south Florida to visit Bret and Val, Carl’s brother and
sister in law, and pack up some boat equipment to be shipped to BVI. The
packing and paper work took about 2 hours so we visited more family, Anita,
Paul and Julie, before heading back to Aron and Katie’s house.
We are all packed up now and
will now head back to Frolic to start another year of cruising. Hope this blog
finds everyone in good health and we wish all a Happy, Prosperous, and Healthy
New Year!
