Lori, Pandas & Ruskin

So here is my first attempt at posting on our blog.

Lori really, NO REALLY, loves panda bears and as you can see she even has to have them on our calendar. You can't see too well the picture to the left behind her but that was a gift from Jennifer and family of our Thanksgiving trip to FL (VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!) If you click on the picture you can see more detail and then you can see many of the pictures of the great time we had. We really enjoyed our time together and I hope we get to do that again... and soon. As for our next trip we will be going to San Diego to the zoo which will be the second place in the US where you can see live panda bears. That leaves Atlanta and DC (already went to Memphis.) Course then the only other real place to see live panda bears is in China where they are from. Lori thinks that is why I want her to get her passport but I'm not sure we are ready for a trip to China.

You can also tell she likes to get her picture taken and smiles :) for the camera. I like to take pictures, sometimes too many she tells me but hey they are digital and if you don't want them delete them. You don't know when you might get a great shot that you keep forever. Posted by Sam, her husband.

Our Thanksgiving trip to Tampa

This is Blake saying "cheeeeeese!" :-)

We took our daughter and grandchildren on a vacation. (This is her holding the baby). We flew into Tampa and drove to Ruskin, Florida. That's where we spent our Thanksgiving week. We stayed in a condo with a good view of the beach, water and marina. Our son-in-law, Jim, was unfortunately unable to get off work to join us, however, he was fortunate enough to take us to the airport and stay with us till security. (Thanks Jim you save us a lot of $$$ for me not having to park my car.) Sam was already there (airport) since he is contracting work there, so we didn't have a big fat parking fee. We were gone for 9 days. Most days were great, those were the days we did little driving and spent a lot of time out on the beach, in the pool, playground and hot tub.

This is everyone but me heading for the

luggage carrousel in Tampa.

ALL of our luggage minus the stroller.

We are waiting for our rental van to show

up.