North Port!

Well, we've moved from Punta Gorda to North Port.  It's closer to work for everyone and we will get better gas mileage.  It is really convenient to everything as well.  We are only a few miles north of Port Charlotte and closer to Venice as well.  We like it so far.  This area reminds us of North Central Florida for some reason.  Maybe it's the pine trees and the woodsy areas. 
The house we are renting is bigger than before but the same cost per month.  Also, electric bill will be lower since it is newer construction!  We have well water too which saves on paying for city water.  All in all, I think it was a good move.

Fraser North Port Home

North Port is growing.  We are getting a Sports Authority, TJ Max, and a Ross Store.  The mall is in the north part of Port Charlotte, not that we go there much.  The neighborhoods are laid out nice and provide for a lot of biking in different neighborhoods close to us.  We still haven't investigated a lot near here yet.  North Port does have a YMCA with an outdoor pool which we might look into.

Bob recently had a scare with a retinal detachment in his right eye.  He had surgery this week but is recovering well.  He has to keep his head parallel to the floor almost all the time though, whether sitting, laying down or whatever.  Every hour, he can take a 5-10 minute break.  He has to do this for the next week.  We just recently bought a 23ft Proline cuddy cabin and he won't be able to go out on it for 2 weeks per his eye doctor.

Sebastian is doing well at his job.  He gets quite a bit of overtime which he likes.  Right now he is working day shift b/c he is one of only a few people who know how to operate this one machine that they are trying to get working correctly.  He will probably return to second shift soon though.  He rather work that shift anyway.

I still like my job.  My medical assistant and I are working well together.  Some changes may be coming though; changes that I may not like but it is in God's hands and I'm going to rest in that.  It is out of my hands, that's for sure.

Our grandchildren are growing and doing well.  Jazmin got 7 awards in first grade this year.  One of them was in Bible verses!  She got the outstanding student award for her whole class too!  What a smarty!  Anthony Jr is growing like a weed.  He is just too cute!

Here's a picture of one of the few times he has let Bob hold him!  Something about men....

Well, guess that's about all the news from our end.....

Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family!  I know I haven't updated our blog in a long time.  Seems like too much was happening.  Some of it not so good.  
In August, I had to be hospitalized with Diverticulitis.  I was in Orlando for a Nurse Practitioner conference when I started having abdominal pain during the last hour of the conference.  Had to be taken by ambulance to Florida Hospital in Celebration, FL, "the town that Disney built".
Nice hospital; I had to stay there for 6 days with a PICC IV central line, NG tube down to my stomach, etc... went in on a Saturday night and left Friday evening for home in Punta Gorda.  I woke up on that Saturday, and saw that my right arm was a bluish color and immediately thought "I  have a blood clot", so off to the local hospital I go and sure enough, an ultrasound showed the blood clot in my armpit.  So I had to be put on Heparin and then Lovenox for few days while taking Coumadin for a blood thinner.
Whew!  all that is a lot to process in and of itself.  Eventually I had an endoscopy that was normal, no stomach or duodenal ulcer as they suspected.  So I slowly got back to nomal.  Had a cold virus in September that really knocked me back for a week or two and just when I finally feel that I'm getting back to my normal self, I have another abdominal pain attack in late October and have to go back to the local hospital.  Geesh!  I did not want to be there and go through the IV, and another CT scan which supposedly showed another diverticulitis attack.  Anyway, another round of antibiotics and light eating.  By the way, I've lost 10-11lbs since this whole thing started!  I wanted to lose some weight but not this way!  So then just as I was feeling better again, I get another cold virus in November just before Thanksgiving.  Took several weeks to feel better again and now I'm getting my energy back.  I want to be able to start walking again and doing the Wii Fit Sports Plus----to get back to normal!
I am so thankful for my family and how they have stood by me and helped me through all this.
So I am looking forward to the New Year----to be healthier without any health problems!
We love it here in Punta Gorda.  The water so close by and being near the grand-kids.  We all have good jobs too.....Bob teaching at our church's Christian Community School, Sebastian working at PGT Industries, a window and doors manufacturing plant and also me with Healthstat, a company that provides work-site clinic for companies and their employees, in this case also at PGT!  Thank you Lord for everything... Here's looking forward to 2012!

Punta Gorda!

Wow, it has been 2 months since I posted anything!  Can't believe how the time has flown by.  We have been in Punta Gorda now for 1 month and really like it here.  We felt that we were "home" in the first few days, so we knew it was the right choice for us.  We love being close to Jazmin and Melissa.
Getting a house with a pool was a great idea since Jazmin loves the water.  The pool maintenance and yard maintenance comes with the rent so we thought it was a good price.

There's a canal behind the house.  We hope to have a boat in the near future so we can just hop in it and go out to the open water.

I will start my job on June 27th.  Trying to decide whether I should make a trip home to NY for a visit before my job starts.  Tickets are a little high right now.  Sebastian got a job at a windows and doors manufacturing plant and is working 40 hours.  Bob is busy trying to build up his insurance business.  He is also going to be a coordinator for a foreign exchange student program to place students here in Florida for the school year.  He has also put in applications in charter schools and Christian schools for the next school year.

We' like to save some money to buy a house again one day before we officially retire!  But we thank the Lord for all the blessings we have now.
We have found a church home and are going to First Baptist of Port Charlotte.  They also have a christian school there that we'd like Jazmin to go to.  She loves going to church.

Moving to Florida

Well, we will probably be moving back to Florida in about 4-6 weeks.  We want to live in the Punta Gorda/Port Charlotte area.  We found a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house on a canal with a boat dock.  We don't have a boat yet but plan to get one in the future.  It has a pool which comes with pool service and also comes with lawn service.

I thought I had a job opportunity doing house calls with a physician in Venice, going to Assisted Living Facilities but that didn't pan out.  I may be able to do house calls with a recruiting company called EMSI in Florida and maybe still with Sunbelt Staffing who I am with at present also in Florida.  So I have some options.  Just have to figure out when to tell CIP that I am leaving!  I have to give 30 days notice.

Melissa and Jazmin were in Punta Gorda these past few days also.  It was fun to spend some time with them.  We took Jazmin to a park where they had a fishing pier.  She was casting her little fishing pole.  She was so cute.  She was afraid of the live shrimp and so I put in on her hook.  She sidles up to me and says "Mimi, when I'm as big as you, will I be able to put my shrimp on the hook?"  I guess meaning by then she won't be afraid of doing it herself!  I told her yes, she would but that Papa Bob used to put my shrimp on the hook when I first started fishing and sometimes he still does!

The night before, all of us including Sherry and Bill went to a restaurant and after eating she wanted to snuggle on my lap and as she did she says "Mimi, I love you".  That was so precious.  We haven't spent much time with her over the last few months, so that was really nice to hear that she still loved me!

We took Melissa and Jazmin home to Gainesville and in the car I played her favorite CD of children bible action songs.  She knows almost all the words and wanted me to sing along.  She's asking how to spell certain words now.

Well that's all for now.  Will upload some pictures in near future.

February 14th

So I'm late with my "Happy Valentine's Day"!  It was also our anniversary- 16 years now.  Doesn't seem that long.  The three of us went down to Punta Gorda, FL for the weekend.  It was somewhat warmer but windy and chilly also.  We went out on Bill and Sherry's boat onto the canal and then the river leading out into the mouth of the river near Alligator Bay.  We stayed in Gainesville on Friday night at Gene and Cindi's house and visited with them and then also did that on Sunday night on our way back up.  Then drove up to Statesboro on Monday morning.
I'm now in Dublin, GA working for my 4 days which is over tomorrow.  Then back home to Statesboro.  I'll be there till next Thursday then fly to Baltimore, MD for the CIP summit for a week.  The days are moving fast.
We have been thinking of moving to Punta Gorda area in the summer.  Melissa and family are thinking of moving there as well.  We'd like to be near them and help out and see Jazmin more often and be able to take her to church with us.
We'd definitely like to live on one of the canals and get a boat again.  Bob wants to become a fishing boat captain and take out charters.  So guess we'll see what God has in store for us over the next few months.  My niece Jill is in Fort Myers, so that would be nice to be nearby.  Also, heard that my brother Dan and Linda want to come down to Florida for a couple of the winter months next year.  Be cool to see them while they are there also!

Update for January

Well, January is almost over.  I am off for a nice 4 day weekend!  I really do like my job doing home assessments and the time off in between.  It's getting a little warmer here which makes us long for Spring weather.

Lately, we've been thinking about returning to Florida to be closer to Melissa and family.  She may be moving to Port Charlotte area in late Spring before she has her baby.  I've checked with my recruiting company in Florida and they are now working with another company that does Home Assessments like the company I am with in Georgia.  So it could be feasible to do this same type job in Florida!  That would be great if we want to move back.  Would be especially wonderful if they give the same amount of time off!

We'll keep praying about it and see what God has planned, but for now we are enjoying being in Statesboro.  We wish the weather was a little bit warmer during winter-----the locals says it usually is, but not this year!  I guess it's cold everywhere.

The First Baptist Church here is great.  We love the Pastor and his sermons.  The people in our Sunday School class are really nice as well and they have a lot of class socials that we hope to take part in.

Sebastian is doing well so far at Ogeechee Tech.  He is in Math and English this Quarter.  It looks like he will be able to take 3 automotive classes next Quarter and 1 class in the Summer and be finished with the Brake Service Section to take the ASE certification by August.  If we move to Port Charlotte area, he could take more automotive classes down there if he wants.

Bob is signing up with more companies to be able to sell insurance here in Georgia and also in Florida.  He is learning more and more about the business so he can do his best!  He has also applied with some schools to teach here but so far there aren't any positions, not even for substituting.  Bob wants to take the captain charter course one day and get his captain's license so he can do fishing charters in the future.

We continue with teaching English online with Sebastian's Polish family through Skype.  We have a lot of fun with it and all the kids are doing well.  It started out with just the girls but the boys are sitting in now also.  Even mama sits in on the classes and I will usually call on her as well.  Patrycja is the youngest and she is probably doing the best of them all!  She is learning English in her school now and is doing really well.  She even took one of our chants called "This, that, these, those" to school and taught it to her class!  She is usually the one who helps the boys when it is their turn to speak to me on Skype.  Maybe she will be a teacher one day!

Our goal is to be able to communicate better with them in English for our own reasons of course, but in Poland the kids could possibly get better jobs if they know English and other languages as well.  The older kids do learn it in school too, but when they don't use English to speak to anyone, it's kind of useless to them. Also, I think at some point they can choose to learn German instead, and since they live close to the German border, they might use it more than English.  I think the oldest girl, Marzena is learning Russian and German.  But she understands a lot of English at times also.  She is learning Hotel management in school and is in Sweden right now as part of her classes until early February.

We like living in our small house here in Statesboro.  It is much smaller than our last house and so much easier to keep clean without all the dogs and cats that we had before [as much as we loved them all when we had them]. We do have to keep the yard up when the grass starts growing but Sebastian will be doing that and it's not going to be much overall.  It really gives us a lot more time for other things instead of being so busy with housework and working in the yard all the time.  Over the last couple of years since going to Poland and being without jobs for several months and then traveling with my job [and no home], that we can really live more simply and without a lot of the "trappings" and it's a good feeling!

Besides being committed to reading the Bible on a daily basis, we've committed ourselves to working out with the Wii Fitness Plus on a regular basis and also walking several times weekly.  The Mill Creek Park is close to our house and it has a paved mile-long track around the baseball fields.  It has a small pond in the center and also hosts "Splash in the Boro", a water park with big slides for adults and older kids and a kiddie area where the smaller kids can run under "rain showers".

Well, guess that's all for now.  Blessings to all our family and friends!

Happy New Year 2011!

It's the beginning of the New Year!  Bob and I are reading the Bible from the beginning again.  We have a new daily bible reading book that is much better than how we were going to go through the Bible 2 years ago.  We only got as far as April that year but are determined to go all the way to the end this year!  This book has a commentary with each section, which really is very interesting.
Sebastian starts school this week.  We are praying that he doesn't get too frustrated with the learning process.  Bob is continuing to learn about the Insurance business and has applied to different schools to teach.  So far, I'm still liking my job.  I will be working from home this next week but will be in Laurens county [Dublin, GA], the following week for 4 days.  We'll be staying at the Page House again.
It's nice to finally get "settled in" to our new home. I like that it is small enough to clean easily!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all of our friends and family a very "Merry Christmas" and many blessings for the coming New Year!  Here's a photo we took of us for the holidays from our new house in Statesboro, GA. 

Our new house

We moved to Statesboro, GA about 2 weeks ago. Today, we finally got the pictures hung and the clutter stowed away!  It looks like we really live here now.  Now we can come home and everything is in place!  The only thing we'd really like to have is a bigger sofa and recliner.  We'll be on the look-out for one soon.

We will be going to Dublin again on Tuesday morning and seeing members in Dublin for 2 days then drive to Johnson county next door to see members for 2 days.  But we'll stay at the Page House again.  We are going to try a different room that is downstairs that may be warmer and we won't have to lug all our stuff up the steps!

Sebastian put up lights on the outside of the house.  We are trying a "fake" tree this year.  It looks pretty good to me and not all that mess and having to remember to water it!  The kitten really likes it and has tried to climb it twice now!

Page House B & B

We've been at the Page House B&B for a week now.  The first 2 days I didn't work b/c of being sick!  Went to work yesterday and today and should just have stayed home----all I did was feel lousy and cleared my throat and coughed, ears plugged up.  I usually was able to hold it together in a member's home but wore a mask some of the time anyway. Oh well, just one more day.
Janice and Kelly the Innkeepers are very nice.  They've been owning the B&B for 13 years now.  Kelly's a social worker and Janice runs the Inn full time but is studying to be a nurse. 
The House is all decorated for Christmas already and looks so pretty.  We'll be back for another week in early December.

Page House

 

 

 

Going to Statesboro

Well, things have just turned around completely.  After talking with Martha and Thomas further, we all decided that being caretakers probably would not be in the best interest for either party.  They really need someone who is going to be around and maybe not have any other job commitments so that if they decided to go away for a weekend or a night here and there, they could leave.  We felt like it might be somewhat restrictive for us as well, b/c we'd also like to be spontaneous!  Plus if Bob got a teaching job in the area, he wouldn't be available in the mornings to make breakfast for any guests and not available in the early afternoons to check them in.
Martha had really fixed up the doublewide for us and it looked really nice, so somewhat disappointed about that but on the other hand not so much.
Yesterday we went looking at houses in Statesboro and we did find a cute house to rent for the next 6 months.  Sebastian is planning on taking some courses at Ogeechee Tech College.  He and Bob have talked to someone on the phone and once we move there, they can go in and see someone.  They have auto technician, welding and HVAC as well there so if he wants to do one of those, he's got the opportunity.
The other reason to choose Statesboro is that it is still somewhat central for me to do my job.  Also, Bob can train with Mary in Savannah to learn more about the insurance business.  He received his insurance license.  He also has his Georgia teaching license so could do that as well.
So I guess we are still on track to bring up some or all of our stuff from Gainesville after Thanksgiving.  It's been somewhat of a roller coaster for us.  Not knowing where we want to live and wanting to help Sebastian a little more.  Bob's daughter, Melissa is pregnant again and the baby is due in July 2011.  We feel like we should be closer to her and Anthony and Jazmin, so we are not sure how we can accomplish that.  But at least Statesboro is only about 4 hours away from Gainesville.
So our plan is to do this for the next 6 months and see how we like the Statesboro area, see how much school Sebastian wants to accomplish, how much I will still like doing the job I have and also for Bob to see if he can make any money in the Insurance business or not!

New Opportunity in Louisville, GA

While staying these last 2 weeks in Louisville, GA at the Old Town Plantation, we had a conversation with the owners of the farm and B&B.  We were discussing our dilemma with trying to find a place to "perch" for awhile somewhere in Georgia so I could do my House Calls job without having to drive too far within a day of work, so I could return home almost every day.  We have also been trying to help Sebastian to decide on whether he wants to go to school in Georgia for automotive or HVAC repair and also get a job somewhere in Georgia. 
A few days later, Martha, the owner comes by our cottage with an interesting proposition.  She wanted to know what we would think about becoming part-time "caretakers" and helping them out around the place especially when they needed to be out of town periodically.  We could live in a small house on the property with free rent and electric in exchange for approximately 13 hours per week of work.  There may not be work every week so it would be sporadic---like when they were gone, we'd feed the dogs, water some plants and be here for emergencies.  Occasionally, if there were cottage guests at the time that they needed to be gone, we'd cook the breakfast in the mornings.  We could still keep any jobs that we had.  And if we did any work above those hours, she'd pay $20 per hour!
She even talked to the local HVAC repair owner [heating and air conditioning] about possibly hiring  Sebastian to work with him and train him in the business.  There are a couple of tech schools about 30 minutes away that Sebastian could learn more in HVAC if he liked it or in automotive repair if he wants to.  
Sebastian could also help take care of the basic work around the farm if we are gone at the same time as the owners. We told Martha and Thomas that we'd like to try it out for the next 6 months.  It just felt right to take them up on this offer. 
We had been searching for some place to call "home" again in Georgia.  For a time, we thought maybe Savannah.  But prices for housing seemed to be on the high side there.  We really wanted to be close to Anthony, Melissa and Jazmin in Gainesville as well, but again trying to be there enough for them and do the House Call job seemed to be at cross purposes. 
We finally just let go of trying to make any decisions and had sort of committed to going back to Gainesville as our home base when this opportunity presented itself out of nowhere!  But it feels right to try this out. I do have a lot of time off from my job and we could travel back to Gainesville as often as we want to or need to for the next several months anyhow.  And then, things could change from there in ways only God knows right now!

OLD TOWN PLANTATION & RETREAT IN LOUISVILLE, GA

We've been in Louisville, Ga this past week and will stay for another week.  I only have 3 days of work and then we'll be flying off to NY to visit family for about 7 days. We'll get to enjoy Tom's renovated house longer than we did after we finished it in April!
We are staying at the Old Town Plantation and Retreat.  It is a bed and breakfast but they don't have individual rooms like most B&Bs, but have cottages.  Ours is called the Courtside Cottage b/c it is next to the tennis courts.  Tennis anyone?  Not us, no rackets and weak knees! 
The houses are on several hundred acres of land---just beautiful countryside.  Martha and Thomas, the owners are just really the nicest people. This land has a very historical background also, dating back to the 1800's.  There are several houses on this property that are very old cracker-style houses.  One was torn down b/c it was too costly to fix up but they left the chimneys!

See some of the pictures below.....check out the Picasa Link for more.  They'll be up for awhile there as well.

Courtside Cottage

 

We walked down this tree lined lane to find the river and a good fishing spot but never did find the river.

Restored old Library with remaining chimneys from torn-down house.

SAVANNAH, GA

We are back in Savannah!  We were at Red Gate RV park about a week ago also then went to work in Emanuel, Jenkins and Candler counties for 3 days.  We stayed in Statesboro again at the Parkwood RV Park.  It was simpler to stay there and travel to the other counties which surround Statesboro.  Anyway, then we came back to Savannah last Saturday and have been here since. We are still in our RV staying at Red Gate RV Park.
Bob is taking the last 2 days of his insurance agent classes and then will take the test before we leave Savannah this Saturday coming up.  We'll be dropping off the RV in Jacksonville but may head to G'ville first to drop off all the extra stuff we have been carting around due to the RV!

 

We did some sightseeing in downtown Savannah a week ago, walked along the river front and also around City Market area. 

Savannah feels like a "small" big city.  Traffic didn't seem too bad for a Saturday.  Sundays probably are even slower!

Red Gate Farms is where we have the RV parked.  It has a lot of land that is still owned by the same family for the last few generations.  Lots of amenities---pool, clubhouse with 60" screen TV and laundry facilities.  It has been very convenient to Savannah and the water as well as Bob taking his classes.  I will be working from  here also for 3 days this week, seeing members in Bryan, Evans and Liberty counties.

One of 4 fishing ponds

Home away from home

Bob-firing up the grill

Horses!

Swings overlooking the pond

TYBEE ISLAND!

We just spent last week at Tybee Island for 3 days.  Wow, what a great place!  It had a cute downtown area with cute beach type shops.  The beach was nice and they had a pavillion with a pier.  We went to a different section of the beach where the "back" river meets the ocean and it reminded us of the panhandle area in Florida! The water was still warm enough to go in and do some surf fishing.  Didn't catch anything though....
We rode our bikes around the campground and some of the neighborhood area.  We also went kayaking one morning but I'm afraid I just don't have the upper body strength I need to make that more fun than work!

The Tybee Island Light Station [aka--lighthouse] was really neat to see.  Also around that same area, there are bunkers from the Civil War era, I think.  Houses and other establishments are tucked in all around them. Kind of strange in some ways---should have been a state landmark to be preserved, you'd think.....

On Sunday morning, we went down to the beach to watch the sunrise come up on the horizon, only there was a bank of clouds in the way.... I didn't get up as early as I should have to bike there in time, so the cloud bank gave me extra time!  It was so neat to be on the beach watching for the sun.  Other people were there as well.
We definitely want to go back to Tybee Island!
We have rented an RV for 3 weeks, not sure about living in it that long but since I had a lot of days off, we thought we'd take advantage of the time and go to a bunch of parks in between working while the weather was still nice.  So we'll make the best of it.  Can't wait for cooler weather though!
After one more week in Statesboro, we'll go down to Skidaway Island and then closer to Savannah to an RV Park.  Bob is going to an Insurance Agent class for 2 days in Savannah.  He'll have another 2 days the following week as well.  So we'll be in Emanuel, Candler and Jenkins counties for 3 days then have another 4 days off.

STATESBORO, GA

We have been in Statesboro for about a week now.  I worked four days doing House Calls and now have the weekend off. Yeah! We are staying at the Statesboro Inn which is a bed and breakfast; but we are staying in their 2 bedroom cottage in the back of the property.  It's kind of cute but has too small of a refrigerator.  The young owner acquired this property about 3 years ago.  The Inn may have seen better days in the past.  There are just little hints that this may be a bigger job for this guy than he expected maybe.  Anyway, we are here until next Friday.  Then we will take a jaunt down to Jacksonville, FL and pick up the RV that we reserved.  We thought we'd try it for a few weeks to see how we will like it.  We may buy our own in the future. 
The town is a fairly good size with about 40,000 people.  The university here called Georgia Southern has about 19,000 students. 

Statesboro Inn-main house

Our "cottage"

Labor Day Weekend-Canton, GA

We are in Canton, GA visiting Fred and Linda, Bob's brother and his wife.  We met Sebastian on I-85 coming from Panama City, FL.  He followed us up the rest of the way.  There was a traffic jam on 575 and we decided to get off and follow some back roads; it still took us another 45 minutes but maybe we would have been sitting in traffic due to a car accident if we hadn't gotten off.
Today, we drove over to Lake Acworth area and Red Top Mountain.  We took a trail from the visitor's center and walked over to the lake trail.  Beautiful day and beautiful weather.
Fred & Linda have got us hooked on the Wii again this year.  They have been doing games for exercise almost every day and Linda has lost 10lbs doing it and Fred has become more limber! It's got us wanting to use our Wii more for a fitness routine.  It's challenging and fun at the same time.
Tomorrow we were thinking of going to Andy Stanley's church at Northpoint Church.

EASTMAN, GEORGIA

We have now been in Eastman Georgia for 1 week doing the House Calls program.  We are staying at the Dodge Hill Inn, in one of their cottages called "Mary's Manor".  It is a cute little house and comfortable for us for the next couple of weeks.  See pictures below.

So far we've been to a state park nearby and rode our bikes and fished but didn't get anything!  We went to the town of Dublin, GA to look around.  We had an awesome lunch at a place called "Ole Time Country Cookin".  It was delicious!

Fruit cup for Breakfast!

Mary's Manor where we stayed

I'm "getting into" my job more and more.  I feel like these are "my" patients.  I do enjoy teaching one on one. I am scheduled for 8 patients daily but have had at least 1 or 2 "no shows" each day this week.  I was concerned that I would have all 8 patients and I would be out  driving around till 6pm especially when it gets dark early.  But if the future is like this past week, then maybe I won't have any difficulty with 6 or 7 members per day!

Rochelle, Abbeville, Pineview

These were the last 3 towns in Georgia that we just finished doing House Calls in.  Next week, we'll be on to Eastman, Ga for 2 weeks.  I've decided to go full time with benefits with Sunbelt Staffing/Care Improvement Plus.  Bob [and I] need health insurance coverage and they have a really good plan, plus the salary is pretty good. 
We'll be in Gainesville/Archer, FL till Sunday, August 22nd.  We may not be back to Florida till Thanksgiving but we'll see  how things go. 

Back in Gainesville

Back "home" for a few days.  Took Jazmin to Cedar Key yesterday.  They have a great playground next to the water.  But it sure was hot outside.  We ate some hot dogs for lunch and got wet in the outside shower and sat in as much shade as we could.  We did walk the beach trying to find shells for her mama.  There's not much of a beach there and the tide was low so we didn't go in the water much but we had fun anyway....
She was sure tired but didn't fall asleep in the car like we thought.  She got cranky later and when we took her home, she said she wanted to know if it was okay to "rest" her eyes!
It's tough work watching a 5 year old for 2 days in a row.  We feel like we have a day off today!
We got up to get some things out of storage to take with us a week from now when we go to stay in Georgia for several weeks.