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********* THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!!!!!************

Passport, tickets and all info regarding transportation and accommodation are in hand ready for take off......OOPS! we still have eleven days to wait until our Great UK Adventurer begins but it can't come soon enough!

Till next time...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MY APOLOGIES to all visitors to my blog!

I have been taken over by the REAL WORLD! Yup, daily living, yard work and taking care of the details for the big trip to the UK..

Oh yes, L'll Sis and and I are going to Scotland. England, Wales and Ireland in the month of May.
We are conducting our own tour which will include a visit to the new genealogy building in Edinburgh as L'll Sis has done quite a bit of investigating into our mother's relatives.
She wants to invest in a blindfold... cause I am going to fulfill a dream and rent a car to drive (on the other side of the road) into the highlands to Balmoral, Inverness and then travel down Loch Ness to Fort William then onto Glasgow to drop off the car.
A train to London for three days and nights and then off to Gatwick to pick up another car and we've off to Stonehenge, Bath and Stratford Upon Avon to check out the digs of the Bard.
The Irish cousins (Phill and Mike) will meet us in Telford for a visit. The cousins, L'll Sis and I will head over through Wales to catch the ferry to Dublin Ireland and check out our father's ancestors. Belfast is the place where we fly out of at the end of our trip....no tears...."WE'LL MEET AGAIN"!!!
OH! OH! I feel a song coming on!

Till next time...

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****** A special thank you to L'll Sis and Hubby for being lovely hosts during my stay with them in Florida.

I had a safe flight back to TO. and now I'm recovering from a cold the first in 21/2 years. YUK! Excuse the sneezing and the blowing.

Till next time...

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************** LET'S HEAR IT FROM EVERYONE!!!!!
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****************** HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

************* THE BIG 65TH!!!!!

And it was a really lovely day. Shopping and got a new
bathing suit which is 2 sizes smaller than the last one,YEA!

Then L'll Sis and Hubby surprised me with a "O" gravity chair for my patio and they are taking it home for me since I am flying.

And to top it off they took me out to dinner to a place on the Banana River which was just lovely...

Thanks for the memories.

Till next time...

*****NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!

I think those are my famous last words because I booked an early -never again -flight out of TO. for my trip to FL. and of course I was up and on my way to the airport at 3am. All the American paranoia about security, even shoes off does take time. I often wonder what they'll want to check next?

It ended up being a good, fast (2hrs and 17min) and secure flight.

Following all details of getting the rental car I was off to L'll Sis and hubby's house where they were waiting for me in the brilliant sunshine
of their sun porch wearing their welcoming smiles.

It was a very long day and I crashed at about 9pm.

The next day we were off for lunch in Cocoa Village with all the participants of L'll Sis's workout group. It was their thank you gift to her for running all the classes and they really appreciated all the effort she put into it. We had so much fun and the food was great too!

Thunder and lightening prevented us from swimming however it did cool off and for this norther gal it was a welcome relief!

Till next time...