Dec 19/2011 Merry Christmas to all

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Dec 6 Home for the Holidays

Weather 78 and sunny last two days before we came home.

Billy snapped a great shot of an early morning sunrise in our park, this does not happen very often ~ being up in time to see a sunrise... we set the alarm to do one last motorcycle ride.

We met Don and Annie for lunch at a halfway point between the two of our places.  It was about 142 miles and we took our time and stopped for a coffee getting to Old Town just in time for lunch.  After we cruised about a mile down the road to see the famous Swanee River.  Only bikers would be crazy enough to spend all day riding to go for lunch!

Almost forgot to post a pick of the awesome bunkies at the RV park.  Les & Barb - these might be too fancy to qualify as a bunkie ha ha.

Happy Holidays to family, friends and fellow rv'ers.  We will be back in Tallahassee to put our motorhome back on the road early Jan, 2012.  Looking forward to seeing everyone.

December 2 Mr. Fix-it & Mrs. I Broke It

Mr. Fix-it and Mrs. I Broke It

Looking back on the last few weeks it appears in a motor home there is always one person who tends to break things or have the bad things happen.....   yes it is Mom/Rosey.   'I know' it is not a surprise.  Billy is very patient and easy on things where I tend to be a little rammy *!  If you are reading this blog, you know us well enough to know what I mean, ha ha.   And believe it or not even when I did not even touch something it will fall off or happen when I am in the coach by myself.  By the way it is easier to reach/turn switches on when you are 6 feet tall - the most common words spoken in our home now are "Billy can you get this for me?" along with "I'm sorry I broke it"!
So far:
1. broke a cupboard door clip - you can buy one for $13 - yes you pay special for an RV piece of plastic
2. sliding door came off the rail, my fault - it was on the break camp checklist and I did not lock it
3. light fixture cover will fall out if it gets cold, seems to expand in the heat - just needed to clip it back in but it only falls out when Billy is not in the coach..... it is the rv demons at work.
4. hallway fan handle came apart - I swear I only turned it a few times this way and a few times the other way on my tippy toes.... either way it did not go up.  another job fixed by the handy man.
5. bathroom facet
6. power went out; oh yes I had 4 electrical appliances surging at once - my bad - and I made an amperage chart so that would not happen
7. wing nut came off the toilet seat
8.  broken clip on the sliding mirror doors
Oh yes almost every other day there is a little fix it thing; you get the idea. Remember if you want to own an RV someone has to be the Mr. Fix It.  I met a lady the other day told me she is the one with the tool box and her husband supervises, ha ha.

p.s. Bonnie that is the picture you took of us - thank you it is awesome!

December 1 - Apalachicola

Weather - Sunny, high of 65, nights very cool 40.  But we are from Canada so we got our leathers on and went for a ride and had a great day :)
We went out to Apalachicola and really spent the afternoon walking around the unique little stores and shops and bars and restaurants.  I fell in love with a little old bookstore that had knitting supplies in the back and a great friendly old cat walking around!

Most RV'ers have a sign they hang outside when they are parked, some have their names others a saying or even just a plastic flamingo.  Today there were so many shops with that kind of stuff so I was looking around for something - this is the novelty stuff I was looking at.  

 But Billy didn't like any of that stuff -even if we put our name on it and a saying......  he said he found the perfect thing to set outside our coach,,,, oh really!!! ha ha and what shall we call her? Yes well I can see that she is perfect.... what a guy. ha ha.

I had to have seafood for lunch and Billy still just wants his red meat....  so we ate at the Seafood Grill.

 Today was my day to tackle raw oysters, this place is known for the best; so when I tried to order them, you really could only get them by the dozen and I just didn't know if I could do it.   Our waitress was laughing at me by the time she took our order, I settled for grilled shrimp and scallops.  To my surprise she came back with a plate of 3 raw oysters, sat down and said "OK this is how we are going to eat them", she had the first one and then I had the next two - on crackers with hot sauce.  They were delicious, light, salty, fresh.  I did it!  Seafood is so fresh it just comes off the boats in the morning.