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Thursday December 16, 2010

An easy day today. Some reading and serious nap time...
Giselle and André came over for supper.

Great time.

Friday December 17, 2010

I had to get up early today!
I had an appointment at U-Haul to install a trailer hitch on the car. My appointment is at 9 am, but I got there at 8:15 am. The employee sees me and take my car keys. Then at 9:15 am they came over and told me the hitch is not here yet!
&?%$#@.
This is not starting well!
They gave me a van to use until the car is ready. Later in the day, they called and informed me that the hitch will not be here until 4 pm.
I gave the van back and booked another appointment for Monday.

On the bright side of the day!
At our campground, every weekday mornings we play either shuffleboard or pétanque. You can see me in my red tee-shirt playing shuffleboard.

The campers are very easy-going.

Saturday December 18, 2010

A little while back, we decided to do some remodeling in our motorhome. We wanted to change one of our couches for two Lazy-Boys kind of chairs. Giselle and André drove us around furniture stores looking for chairs for our living room. We found them at the Lazy-Boys store. That evening we had supper with Giselle and André. Supper was very good, again, and for bonus we played Mexican Train, a domino game.

Thanks for a great day and evening André and Giselle!

Sunday December 19, 2010

Having purchase our Lazy-Boys, we now have to remove the couch from the motorhome. Monday we want to clean/wash the living room carpet. The couch is very easy to disassemble and move out of the motorhome.

Thanks to Giselle and André for taking our couch right away.

Monday December 20, 2010

Another day that starts early.
Back to U-Haul for the second try at the installation of our hitch...
@#&#$%.
They managed to order a hitch for a Pontiac G6 and I have a G5! The paper work also said G5.
Home I go with another moving van. I use the van to get the carpet cleaning machine. By mid afternoon I got a call from U-Haul. They tell me it will take a little longer because they have to get the hitch from somewhere else.
Do I care where it comes from? Just get the job done!
I am not mad, just frustrated at the incompetence of people. The American wonder why it is so hard to get out of the recession.
I think I know why!

Back to cleaning the carpet, no problems with that.

At 3:30 pm I get a call from U-Haul. Our car is ready for pick up and it has the right hitch! I get the car, but no tips for anybody working there. However, I have to say it is a well-done job.

My beautiful van!

The carpet cleaning machine at work.

Tuesday December 21, 2010

Today we decided to have an easy day! Pool time, some serious reading and a bike ride.

You get to see all kinds of things on a bike ride, like this super high Jeep!

Wednesday December 22, 2010

Our Lazy-Boys are coming today!
Without the couch for a few days, we found that the Lazy-Boys are taking lots of room.
We got used to it very fast, a nice change from the couch to the Lazy-Boys. We are very happy with our choice.

Another great week relaxing and visiting Giselle and André.

What a life...

Thursday December 23, 2010

Another easy day.
Our new bike rack on the car. Love it!

Our evening was spent at the bingo hall with Giselle and her friends.

Lots of fun!

Friday December 24, 2010

Our first Christmas Eve south!

André and Giselle invited us for supper, but before supper we drove around to look at the beautiful houses in Palm Beach.
WOW! So beautiful.

Of course, with the beautiful house comes the beautiful boats...

Here we are pretending we are rich with the boats.

Christmas mass at a church in Palm Beach. Very beautiful church. The people are so pretty with all the diamonds. We look a little poor.
A very nice mass.

Back at Giselle and André's place, we had a very nice supper waiting for us. After a very good meal, we played Mexican Train, a domino game.

Thanks Giselle and André for a great day.

Saturday December 25, 2010

Christmas day supper was at the trailer park with Giselle and André and their friends.
Very good meal and a very well organized evening.

Got to have 50/50's to go along with the dancing.

Ah, love birds!

Merry Christmas to all!

No Christmas evening would be completed without a little story.
First, let me tell you that the park is for 55 years old and over.
Mostly francophone with a few American living here.
The Christmas supper is open to all, but the Americans chose not to come...
The park has a rule that all noises will stop at 10:30 pm. Well, imagine an American decided to call the police on us, a group with the average age of 70 years old!
Two police car showed up. They were very embarrassed being there.
Boy did we laugh!
Like the 75 years old will burn some rubber on the way home!

Sunday December 26 to Tuesday December 28, 2010

Days for relaxing and visiting around.

In this part of Florida there are lots of "gated communities".
Mostly for the rich, white people for some reason?
But still very pretty.

One afternoon we took a little bike ride in Palm Beach to check out the real estate.
Everything is so well maintained...

The Atlantic ocean was actually warm.

One of the many weird trees we have seen in Florida.

Wednesday December 29, 2010

Every weekday morning at the campground, we play either shuffleboard of pétanque. Today is shuffleboard.
The other campers are very nice.

Pretty neat to see all the birds on the wires...

My niece is in Fort Lauderdale tonight because she and her boyfriend are going on a cruise. We meet them at the hotel and went out for a drink. We had a great time talking with them.

Karole and Mauro, have a good trip.

Thursday December 30, 2010

Even with the cloudy sky and cool weather, we went to the beach today.
The water was nice and the waves were even nicer.

I mentioned this before, but our travel always bring something new to look at, from the small lizard to the sign on the back of a car...

Friday December 31, 2010

New Years Eve at the trailer park with Giselle and André.
No, no police car tonight. I guess someone had a good talk with the "individual" to make him understand!

Ah, love...

A very Happy New Year 2011.

See you next year...