3/18/17....Fun Birthday today at Roy and Marie's and then Daytona Beach. Sure missing my family though. I love my family!

We loved our visit with Roy and Marie in Haines City, Florida today

Roy, Marie and me

Loved this picture Janet sent me of my class.  They didn't an amazing job on their  Happy Birthday signs for me.  It was so sweet of Janet to have them do this and send me the picture.  Love that I have 3 grandkids in my class this year.  Love all of these beautiful and sweet kiddos!

Daytona International Speedway

Huge ferriswheel that was taller than these apartments

When we got by Disney World, there were lots of cool things we passed

Yay we are at Daytona Beach

Lots of Bikers

Lots of signs on this bridge welcoming the bikers

My Biker Bill (Sure did thank the Lord he was a CMA biker)
Wouldn't want him to be like some of the hard core bikers we saw today.  I felt peach whenever I would see a Christian Motorcycle Patch on a vest

This bike was cool.  It is the Lord's Supper on the and he was giving out free tracts and Bibles.  Below is the side view

Tons of Bikes and people

I was so happy when Bill stopped at Daytona Beach and we spent some time there.  Loved hearing the salt water sizzle.  We took this selfie

On the other side of the state at the Gulf of Mexico, the sand is white.  Here on the Atlantic it is red!  Both are beautiful!

The water washed one lane of the road away....Don't know what they will do if this road gets washed away.  Lots of houses on the edge of it.  Under that sand is the other road

We went to Longhorn Steakhouse to eat my Birthday Dinner and celebrate.  Our hotel gave us a card for a free ($8.99) appetizer.  We got chips and spinach dip.  YUM!  Our steak was the best ever and our salad and potatoes were delicious.  Yummy Bread too!  The servers all came and sang Happy Birthday to me and brought me a huge hot fudge sundae which I shared with Bill.

We got up at 7 and went to Turner's Donuts and picked up donuts to go.  Wes, Gayla and Joel did too.  We said our goodbyes again and they headed home and we headed to Roy and Marie's on our way to Daytona Beach.  We ate one of our donuts.  On our way, after we had driven quite a while, I had Bill stop at a McDonald's and I got one egg mcmuffin.  He didn't get anything.  We made it to Marie and Roy's and visited in their 5th wheel.  She served us delicious coffee cake.  Visited for about 1 1/2 hours and then left to head to Daytona.  It was a nice country ride most of the way, and we passed lots of orange groves with tons of oranges.  Beautiful to see!  We ate our other donut before we got to Daytona Beach.  It was heavy traffic when we got there and so many motorcycles. It was something to see.  We drove around looking for a parking spot but found none, so we paid to park.  Once sign said $5 for motorcycle parking and $100 for cars.  FUNNY!  We didn't park their.  We paid to park in a church parking area.  $20...Wowsville!  I found a nickel so it was only 19.95 actually.  We walked down one side of town and up the other. Browsed some of the vendors, but many had lots of the same stuff.  We decided not to eat there, but to find a nice restaurant somewhere.  We stopped at Daytona Beach once we got where there weren't a lot of people.  We walked out to the water and it was absolutely beautiful.  Love the ocean waves sound.  We took some pictures and talked to a CMA couple we saw from Canada for a little while, then left.  Ate our other donut on the way.  Got to Kingsman, just across the GA line and went to a Fairfield Inn to get a room, because we love the breakfast there.  There was no vacancy.  Next we tried the Hampton Inn.  No vacancy there either, but they told us the Country Inn had rooms still.  We went there and they only had 3 rooms left.  We took the kingsize bed one.  We had the nicest room with 2 televisions, a little living room, then a hall with a sink and across from it the bathroom with another sink in it.  Then there was a door to our bedroom which was beautiful.  We got our stuff in and then went to the Longhorn Roadhouse for my Birthday dinner.  Such a fun day, but I sure missed my family.  So thankful I can talk to them.  They are the best and I sure do love each of them.  Cell phones are great for that!  

3/17/17.. Celebrated my birthday today since we will be traveling tomorrow.

Breakfast at Peaches.  It was delicious!

A nice lady next to us offered to take a picture of all of us.  

It was beautiful when Bill and I went for our morning walk

There's a dolphin out there. Two of them were swimming together.

Lots of good shells today.  With all the wind, the tide was lots higher.  This row of shells  was so close to the water.  Usually the shell line is at least 10 feet away from the water when we walk.

Bill took a picture of me on the beach with the sunrise behind

Our selfie

Bill with the beautiful sky behind him

Spent time with Joel by the pool while Gayla did her laundry and packed some of their things

Bill in the pool

Selfie...waiting for my laundry to be finished

This is the way to wait for laundry to dry.  Sure will miss this when I do my laundry at home!

My phone timer is set as I relax

Ronnie came and paid us a surprise visit and brought us each cokes.  God is sure working on his heart!

Wes, Bill, Joel and Ron

Joel

Wes and Gayla bought us dinner at the Oyster Bay Restaurant for my Birthday.  I had grilled Salmon.  It was delicious.  Everyone else had fish.  The restaurant was so busy!  There was one little oyster in my rice that I thought was a mushroom.  I politely put it in my napkin. YUK!

Bill told the waitress it was my birthday so the whole group of servers came and clapped and sang Happy Birthday and brought me a huge piece of delicious Key Lime pie with a lit candle in it.

Embarrassing but worth it!

This was when we were waiting for our beeper to go off at the restaurant.

Wes took this goofy picture.  He never lets you know when he's taking one.

He tok this one too and Bill told us to look

This is how Wes usually looks when I take a picture.  He doesn't like his picture taken

Me and my super hero!

Silly super hero too!

Skinny little onion rings that were delicious

I loved their tables with all the neat shells in a couple of areas on each table.  

My yummy meal!

It was a very  nice birthday celebration.  Great day with friends and Bill treating me like royalty and then I really loved getting to face time the girls and families and opening my birthday presents from them and all the cards were just beautiful and precious.  Bill videoed, but no one took pictures.  Love all my stuff.....beautiful new designer mug from Kimmy and family which I can't wait to get home and use.  Collapsible clothes basket, huge sheet quick dry towel and cute little fan that plugs into my phone and works great.  Can't wait to use this stuff camping and at BayShore.  What a sweet family I am blessed with.  Loved seeing them and talking to them.  Miss them all so much.  Took Kimmy and the boys on a tour around our place and down to the ocean. I had already done this for Vikki and the kids and Melissa and the kids.   I love my family!!!

3/16/17...Went to visit Louise, Becky, and Dave today.

You can see a couple of horses under the trees.  They are unloading the rest and then they go with riders into the water.  They are beautiful.  We were driving so didn't get a good picture.  

Louise is 93 and rides her bike all over!

Nice time visiting at Becky's and Dave's

Bill and I by our favorite tree here

Wes an Gayla

Another beautiful sunset

The beach next to us was beautiful after the sun set.

We ate pancakes for breakfast.  After that, we walked to a store to get something for Stacie.  

Came home and laid in the lounge chairs by the pool.  It was 37 degrees here this morning and windy.  While we were by the pool is was nice and warm because the sun was out and the wind is blocked.  Wes grilled ham and cheese sandwiches on the grill for lunch. They were delicious.  We are eating all the stuff we have left in the refrigerator before we leave.  We went to Mixon's which is a store by Louise's which makes orange juice from the oranges in their groves.  They have dispensers with grapefruit juice, orange juice and lemonade in them that are made there.  It tastes delicious.  This store a lots of beautiful things in it plus some food items.  We went to Becky and Dave's after that.  Louise rode her bike down to visit with us.  Joe (Louise's late husband's late sister's husband) and his daughter Katrina came to visit too.  Becky and Dave served us pie and ice cream.  Homemade Raspberry cheese cake, black raspberry pie and pecan pie.  YUM!  Came home and had the rest of our Kentucky Fried Chicken and hotdogs on the grill.  Went next door and watched the beautiful sunset and got our picture taken by our favorite tree.  Sad news today that our friend Dave Stuart died.  Last time we were here we went to their beautiful home in Port Charlotte to visit him and Sandy.  They didn't get to come to Florida this year because he got Dementia, went into the hospital and his body shut down.  He knew Jesus so happy about that!