Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Dawn and Sean Visit Ocala

Last week we drove to Alpharetta to pick up Dawn and Sean for a visit to Ocala. We left early Thursday morning from Alpharetta to Ocala, which takes about six hours to drive. It was a long drive down I-75 but we all made it and Sean was a good little traveler. He watched his movies most of the time. After we got to Ocala Dawn and I took Sean to a little park so he could play a while after being cooped up in the car most of the day. He had a good time and he can really climb. This was a "nature park" which means everything is "natural" except the brand new playground equipment.

This piece of playground equipment is made to resemble a spider web....cute, huh.
This was a "jungle gym" that Sean climbed all over.
In this picture Sean is hanging by his hands, of course Dawn is close just in case he falls....which he didn't.
The next day we took Dawn to a couple interesting stores in Ocala, like a Gourmet Food store and a Restaurant Supply store. Then we took Sean to the park where he fed the ducks.
The ducks would actually take the food from his hand...and one almost took his hand.

Dawn and I also kept busy trying to make an airplane cake. We actually did pretty good but this is just a practice for Sean's 3 year old birthday cake.


On Saturday we took Sean to Silver Springs and he had a good time seeing all the animals, like the alligators and the stinky giraffes.


Sean wanted to ride the Carousel but only in the seat. He wasn't sure about the horses that were going up and down.

But Dawn and Jimmy had a great time on the Carousel!!

But he did not have a problem with the aligators.......

...or touching a great big snake!

We all had a great time even if Dawn was fighting a bad sinus problem the whole trip. Dawn is a real trooper and you would never believe she is four months pregnate.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Why old people retire in Florida....

Today is the 4th of January and it is 80 degrees with a beautiful blue sky. This is why people retire in Florida.


This is a picture of Ormand Beach, about an hour and fifteen minutes drive from Ocala. We drove down to Ormand Beach because it was such a beautiful day.


This is Jimmy walking on the beach. It was such a beautiful day.

Monday, January 5, 2009

New Years Eve

Jim and I spent New Years Eve with our grandson, Sean. Dawn and David had tickets to the Chick-fil-A Bowl with Georgia Tech playing LSU so Jim and I kept Sean. We took him to play at Monkey Joe's ...

and to lunch at Chick-fil-A.


We also fixed him a good breakfast in the morning. (Notice all the healthy food)

Sean was a good boy and we enjoyed taking care of him.