Pre Christmas Party

A Holiday Gathering at our house prior to Christas w/friends

No one believed Rod had a fishing shirt in every color! Arnie liked it.

Terry & Arni keep watch on the desert table

Lots chatting

Bruce & Kym profile

Plenty of food and deseets

Mike in his official Ant Hat

Erika enjoys her cocktail DeDo and Charlotte enjoying some desert

Enjoying the Holidays in Florida

Don comes over for dinner
Home made bread
Shrimp Scampi and fresh sald


Christmas morning breakfast w/Molly & Terry
French Toast Casserole ice cream & fresh cream Vt maple syrup

nancy & Molly digging in and all smiles Molly said, whats better than ice cream for breakfast

Done

Molly's fresh Butter Tars too

Holland Farms cookies arrived on 12/24 Thank you Aunt Barbara
My new cap from Steve & KTK

Utica's best T Shirt from my sister Barb

Badgers hat from sister in law Mary

Christmas morning on the bayou

Pool side

Here is our Christmas Tree and Santa

Rod decorates the tree
another December sunset

Bike ride to the new John's Pass Bridge

Friends Joe & Kathy Kiss



Holiday Bike Night at Quaker Steak & Lube
Those Honda Gold Wings are a little over the edge w/the lights






Santa sings

Trip continues 2011 to Florida

A beautiful sunset over the marina at Oriental NC where our friend Drake lives aboard his sailing vessel

Drake meets for breakfast in the AM on his battery powered scooter AM temps was 18

Here we enjoy a Southern breakfast in a local diner.....all the locals greeted us like old friends because we were w/Drake He is like the un-official Mayor in town

We spent the evening in Calabash NC w/friends Cass & Beth (can't believe we didn't get any pictures)...but we did get a couple of shots of the Southern JFK Library and rare book collection
Even the complete Warren Report 1st Edition AM temp 22
Complete with the Limo
Some beautiful flowers in Savanna Ga Our favorite city stop at on the way north and south AM temp 18 got to get further south

Once a Girl Scout always a Girl Scout

Finally 12/9/10 we arrive in St Petersburg Fla and our 1st sunset from our patio All is good
Our 1st AM temp was low 30's

Heading South for the Winter 2010-2011

We left Somerville on 12/2/10...spent the 1st night on Cape Cod at Diane & Ricks House
Here is the Bourne Bridge the morning we left

Our 2nd night was spent at Seafood City in Fenton Del. our favorite restaurant ...eat-drink-sleep in the parking lot.........very good sea food ...espcl oysters & crab

Our full rig truck camper kayaks motorcycle trailer over looking the Chesapeake Bay bridge & tunnel......23 miles long.

Fishing boat
Tunnel 1 or 2

Fishing boats around the bridges...pretty good swells for a small boat
Long stretch B/4 the next tunnel

Great nephew Collin greets us
and advised me of our flat tire

Chef Kevin prepares one of his asome meals on his EVO ....as you can see he cooks w/wine...he told me some times he puts it in the food
Tonight it it is chicken/steak w/vegetables and Asian noodles


I prepared and grilled chicken hearts in kosher salt


Collin eats a chicken heart on a bet....he actually liked it too

A ful plate of hearts

We stayed a second night for the rib roast...Dusty insisted we stay!

Mary (the Sous Cef) prepares the roast

Nancy watches and is in charge of keeping the wine glasses full! She did a great job.
After we ate ...this was left
Twice baked taters
Our Hosts Collin Kevin & Mary

Collin models his new ski under wear that Aunt Nancy got him for being so cute...I don't get it!

Uncle Rod (bad influence) taught Collin how make a book marker out of a Land O Lakes butter box.....there is more to this post........