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Hi! I’m typing this blog post from outside the RV! I’m sitting in the lawn chair outside looking at the blue sky and it’s 77 degrees out. Where’s my freeze time button?? If I could stop time right now…..
This is perfect weather and I have friends that are texting me from New Hampshire saying that there is a foot of snow on the way. I said, “Where?? I don’t see any snow.” They said, “Here in New Hampshire, Dummy.” I said, “Ohhhhhh.” Heehee…..I wonder if they will text me anymore??
Well, my cousin and her husband stopped by. It was so nice to see them. We sat around and chit chatted for a while and then we went out to eat at Applebee’s for lunch. I wish I had their luck! They fly into Orlando and had an economy car reservation waiting for them. They get to the rental car counter and they don’t have any economy cars available to give them, so they give them a convertible corvette…….some people have all the luck! So, it was so nice for them to stop by. I hope to see them again soon. So now I are sitting outside at the RV and I have to tell you what happened this morning. I, certainly, wasn’t impressed at all……
My little Maltese is a curious little bugger. And he’s been looking out the window at the cat next door. Well, he went out this morning to do his duties and found the cat under our pickup truck. Jake got a little too close to the cat and the cat turned and scratched his face. Yep, scratched my little puppy’s face. Well, he’s got a scratch mark between his eyes and nose and I stopped the bleeding and he lost fur around that area and now it’s getting a little swollen. I will monitor the damage thru the night and see how Jake does. He’ll be fine and I think he learned his lesson. Well, I’m not sure about learning his lesson, but we shall see. I really think his pride got the worst of it! He didn’t even cry, I think he was in too much shock to cry.
Other than that, everything else is quiet. We are just going to relax tonight. Have a good night!

Hello, I’ve made some progress on our internet connection here. We are in an area that is pretty far away from the RV Park’s wireless router so we purchased a wireless signal booster. Don’t ask me if I’m impressed with it yet, but so far so good….I’ll give it a few more days to see it in long term action. Tonight’s internet experience was a tad bumpy, I’m going to try again tomorrow. I really appreciate everyone’s emails and comments on how to handle a weak wireless signal – you all made my work on solving this issue very easy!
Sooo, I’ve been taking some local pictures here, and I’m hoping to post them tomorrow if the wireless signal wind is blowing my way! Today, we went to Walmart and got some errands done. Simple day, but people are everywhere….the Kissimmee tourists are everywhere. License plates from every state but Florida are around us! I’ve got a guy from Maine on one side of us and another guy from Michigan on the other side of us here at the RV park. But, no complains, everything is good here. Tonight we skipped dinner and punched “Dairy Queen” into the GPS. You have got to try the Chocolate Covered Cherry Blizzard….sooooo good….I can’t wait to go back and get another one! As Mickey would put it “Magically Delicious!”……no wait!! “Magically Delicious”??, why does sound so familiar??? Hmmmmm…wait, isn’t that from some cereal commercial…..Trix?? Nooo, that’s for kids…….it doesn’t go back to the 80′s with the Pac Man cereal, does it?? I’ll have to think about that one….but, anyways…..go to Dairy Queen!!!
Okay, moving on from my derailment back there….today, we put the awning out and the mesh screen that goes from the outer side of the awning to the ground – looks great, I got pictures of it, I’ll try to post them tomorrow. But, we really made ourselves at home here…the grill is out, all the lawn chairs are out, the bicycles are down from the RV….we will be staying here a whole month – I’m so happy!!
So, my cousin is here! Yep, she flew in today with her husband and she called me up tonight. We are going to catch up with her tomorrow. So I gave her our address here and she’s going to stop by tomorrow morning and we are all going to hang out. If my family back home is keeping up with this blog, this is my cousin from Oklahoma. Yeah, you know which one now! So I’m looking forward to that tomorrow!
Jake is doing great, but boy, has that little dog been plowing thru his canned food! Got to look around this week for a vet that sells that type of Science Diet food….he loves his food and he’s doing super! The temperature here is in the 70′s so I decided to give Jake a haircut…..I just can’t bring myself to drop him off at a doggie spa here and leave him there. He’s only been to one groomer back home, so he’ll have to live with the bald spots all over his body until Kim from Angel Paws can get her hands on him again…..sorry buddy!
As for me, I’m doing great, but somehow suffering from allergies. I’m taking my allergy meds everyday now to see if I can clear up the sniffs and sneezing. Hey, you take the good with the bad and right everything is awesome! Magically awesome!! Have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow!

Hi! Well, we made the 68 mile trek from the Tampa area to Kissimmee! Everything is great and I’m super happy to be staying here a whole month! Yep, a whole month!! Surprised you too, huh?
You want to laugh?? We exited the highway here in Kissimmee at exit 64 (the exit to the RV park here) and we pulled over on the side of the road in a completely safe area and we all looked at each other and we all said the same thing “We are here, now how long are we staying??” We are 4 miles from the RV park parked on the side of the road trying to decide if we are staying a day, a week, or a month. Now That’s the lifestyle of an RVer!!
So, I called up the RV park here and they had an opening (whew!) and I asked how much it would cost to stay at their RV park. They told us the price and we checked in and we got a great site with a great monthly rate and we are staying a whole month!!! A whole month here in central Florida! I’m so excited! My cousin and her husband is flying in tomorrow and my aunt is 45 minutes away!
But it was a last second decision on how long we were staying here and I’m not sure what that’s going to do to the rest of this snowbird trip….will we hit Key West? Will be go to Miami? Will we visit other areas of Florida or just head north in a month?? I’m not sure….all I’m sure of now is that we paid for one month to sit 4 miles from Disney World!! Andddd (no I’m not done yettt) ….and, we took the bicycles down off the RV and there’s a Dunkin Donuts across the street (a bike ride away!) and we are sitting right on US 192 where all the action is!!
The only thing that is super lousy right now is the internet connection here at the RV park. Soooo terrible, I’m going to try to shop around for a wireless signal boost adapter of some sort. But, I’m hoping to fix the internet problem sometime this week.
So, that’s the update for now….I’ll be taking picture around and hopefully can post pictures later this week. I’ll be back tomorrow! Have a super night!!

Hello! Well, we decided to leave tomorrow morning for Kissimmee. Not too early in the morning as it’s only a whopping 68 mile trip. Today was a nice day spending time with our friends here. We spent some time at the Hard Rock Casino and I won some money, and I was sure surprised I won money at a casino on a weekend, but there were a lot of winners today, even a jackpot of $6000 was paid out on a dollar machine by the front door (of course not my jackpot). After that we came back to the RV and since Jake had been inside all day, we took him for a walk down the street to the next intersection where Checker’s Restaurant is. I ordered an ice tea, Mom got a Pepsi, and Jake got ice water. We walked back to the RV and after I fed Jake, he fell asleep on the couch as I watched the Olympics.
It was a nice day today, beautiful weather. I have a cousin from Oklahoma who will be in Kissimmee next week with her husband and I can’t wait to see them! We will be spending time with her and my aunt that lives in Groveland (I think it’s Groveland, I’ll have to check on that town name again). So as we make our way around Florida visiting friends and family, visiting friends and family is the highlight of this trip for me. I have always loved visiting others that we hardly see, spending time with them as we go along. I’m not sure how long we will be in Kissimmee, but I think it will be for at least a week.
So, that’s what I did today and I hope you all had a nice weekend also. I’ll be back tomorrow night blogging from Kissimmee!

Hi! Today was a simple day! We visited a friend of ours that use to live next to us back home in New Hampshire. She and her husband come to Florida in the winter and they own a park home in a senior community area. Unfortunately they were not home, but we visited around and looked at some of the lots for sale and talked to some of the local residence. My parents always keep an eye open for a good deal. We took some information from the community office and went back home. I gave Jake a bath this afternoon and now he’s white and fluffy again. Let’s see how long he stays that way as I can see outside that it is raining right now. This evening, we hung out with friends – nothing too exciting and then watched TV the rest of the night. I didn’t even take any pictures today, nothing really worth snapping at. Tomorrow morning we will try to hit a flea market and, again, look for a good deal. Well. I wish I had more news on my simple day. Thanks for checking on me and have a good night!

Hello! Wow, what a day of traveling. We stayed over night at an RV park in Lake City and woke up to 29 degrees – very cold. We left Lake City very early and landed in Bradenton at around 2pm. We got settled in and couldn’t wait to visit our friends here in Bradenton. All 7 of us went to dinner at the Golden Corral – not a bad place either. After dinner we headed back to the RV and fed Jake and relaxed. I’m a tad tired of all the traveling today, so I’m going to call it an early night tonight. We have a lot to do this weekend (including a visit to the Hard Rock Casino near here). I will have internet service here and I will bring my camera with me tomorrow. Check on me tomorrow as I will be posting pictures of beautiful Florida. Oh, the temperature here today was 59 degrees. Nite Nite. *yawn*