26 March 2014

Good Morning,
Here we are in Tampa...and it is 48 degrees!!! hmmmm
We have had safe travels. We left Gulfport on Friday morning and arrived in Crestview just in time to have lunch with Ann and Jim.  Even had the same booth in the restaurant we met at 3 years ago!!   It was good catching up again....hope they will be able to come to Tucson sometime in the next year.  We then stopped just to say hi to John before we left for Prattville.   It was so great to see Doug, Sybilla and Taryn  and Manny THE dog again.   We had wonderful food, took walks and played games and laughed until we were hoarse!!   Tom and Doug even played golf.
We gave our hugs and left for Niceville on Monday Morning.  Joe, Sandy and Lizzie Grace and Hope (their dogs) met us at the door with open arms and paws!   We went to "The Front Porch" and had a wonderful lunch and then went home , took a nice walk and talked and laughed until midnight!  After a nice breakfast on their new closed in porch, we hugged our goodbyes and headed for Tampa.  Had a nice drive down and arrived after 5 PM.   We are staying at the Inn on MacDill Air Force Base.
Last night we did "Face Time" with Carrie and Emme.   She gave us her Nana and Granddad smiles.
We talked to Kelly as she was at our home with Alastair and Louise as they are heading back to England after a stop on the East Coast and they were at the house returning our Camery.
Today, we are going to meet Deb for breakfast and then head to Bill and Charlotte's.  Have not seen Deb in 14 years so am so excited.  Deb and I worked together at the clinic at Davis-Monthan.  Deb was an Air Force nurse.  Now she is an accomplished photographer.  Deb and Steve have been living in Tampa with their 3 children but will be calling Japan home this summer.   Steve is in the Navy and has been assigned to Japan.  
After spending time with Deb, we will leave for Cocoa and our time with Tom's sister and brother-in-law will begin.   We are so anxious to see them as has been a year since we were there last year.
There are no words to explain how blessed we are to have such friends that are family that we can just drop in to visit...except  "extremely blessed"
I still have not figured out how to add pictures....will talk to George and maybe he can help me or I will go to the Apple store when get to Cocoa.
God Bless
Tom and Maryann