Warm weather..sweet...warm weather

It was time to head for Florida..sad to leave the family, but happy to see no snow and freezing weather!

well our bags were packed and we were ready to go.

 

We drove to Branson to see Bonnie's kids...and I had gotten us two free nights at the Radison Hotel. The only catch was we had to sit through a time share presentation for The Big Cedar Resort, owned by Bass Pro Shops. It happened to work out well as they were trying out the no pressure presentation! Really! It was the easiest time share deal we ever went through...and we got 175 bucks worth of Bass Pro Shop gift certificates to boot!

 

King Kong was loose in Branson



 After the Branson business was over we resumed our trek south,

as we had heard snow was coming...Yikes! Step on it!!!

We passed a goodwill in Alabama, and had to stop.

 



 After 2 days we were on the Florida border! Only 500 miles to go.

Warm weather sweet warm weather!

 We got to the condo Friday night around 8:30 in the evening.

We opened the door after 8 months of no occupancy, not sure what to expect....It looked like we had just left last week. We were tired so we just opened the hurricane shutters and let it cool down in the condo so we could sleep. Sat morning we unpacked the car and got settled into our condo. The weather was in the low 80's. We felt bad for the family as we watched the news and saw winter blowing into the Midwest. At least they would have a white Christmas!

Christmas eve we went down to the beach to see what was going on..

Trying to show the Christmas spirit in 80 degree weather

Loving the beach on X-mas eve

 



As evening fell we decided to go to a movie. We went and watched the move Lincoln. Not alot of action, but a pretty good movie overall. I found it interesting how they had partisan politics way back then. Same stuff (you figure the adjective I really wanted in there) different day.

I must be desperate...taking pictures of the movie theatre

Christmas day I was feeling lonely as I was used to spending it with the family back in Iowa. :( 

Lighthouse point park...lovely place to spend Christmas.

So we decided to find somewhere to get a good holiday meal. You know the kind I am talking about...turkey or prime rib, mashed potatoes, cranberry's etc. etc. etc. We found out Muddy Waters, a restaurant, had a holiday buffet featuring all the above mentioned goodies...so we beat a trail to get some.

I ate that...and another plate full.

this place is pretty cool. we were sitting out on the patio.

So that gets us up to date...we got our high speed Internet hooked up today!!!! I will blog more often now!
Later gators!!