Ankle update

I went to an Orthopaedic Clinic on Monday and have discovered that I have a fractured ankle. Nothing major - but a break along the right side of my ankle with some torn ligaments. So now I'm in a walking cast for the next 3 weeks. Hopefully it will heal quickly.

Working on my album

I've started working on my album. Thought I would share my page with the bird pictures....

Home again

Well we're home again. On Saturday I went to the hospital and had my ankle xrayed. No broken bones I'm happy to report, but they wanted me to come back on Sunday for an Ultra Sound to check for blood clots. Good news here as well - blood clots, but they are concerned by the swelling in my andle so they are sending me to an orthopaedic clinic on January the 18th. In the meantime they want me to get a walking boot but wouldn't you know it, these are on back order. Ah well, I'll just see how it goes. It's still swollen but I keep it elevated as much as I can.

We came home to have lots of work done by Bernie. He finished the trim around the stairs and trimmed off 11 windows for us. I'm so happy, they look great. He also put some cove moulding up for us in the front hall which allows us to finally paint this area as well. Today after work I primed the 3 windows in our kitchen. I can't wait to get the paint on. It's my goal to have all the windows painted in the next two to three weeks. We'll see if I meet that goal. Tomorrow I'll try to put the first coat of paint on the kitchen windows and then I'll move to the bathroom upstairs. I'd really like to get all the walls painted in the bedrooms, living room, dining room, hallways and kitchen before the summer this year. It's a big task but I'll tackle it one room at a time. I may look to see if I can hire someone to paint the walls. I have most of the paint already. We'll see as I don't mind painting and you can do a room in an evening, or on a Saturday. We'll see how busy Ralph and I get.

The final leg of our journey

We saw lots of snow on our final leg of our journey. I thought I would share some of the pictures with you...

The final leg of our journey

We saw lots of snow on our final leg of our journey. I thought I would share some of the pictures with you...

Ankle update

The drive home hasn't been agreeing with my ankle. I guess I need to keep it elevated. When we get home I plan to go get it x ray'd as it's swelling up quite badly. I can't get a shoe on my foot so I wear one sandal and one shoe... Geeky eh!!

Homeward bound Day 2

It was a white knuckle day to day. We left Savannah and the temperature was around 39F. It quickly dropped into the low 30's. We had snow on the ground by the time we reached North Carolina and blowing snow once we reached Virginia. It snowed for a good portion of our trip. We perservered and drove to Washington Penn. We got here around 9:15 and went to dinner at Applebee's. We're now at the hotel and hope to relax and sleep in and head for the final stretch tomorrow.

Homeward Bound

Hello everyone, we spent a fun day yesterday and today with Chuck and Claudia. We left around 1:00 p.m. and headed towards Savannah. We thought we would try to get to Paula Dean's restaurant for dinner. Unfortunately the restaurant closed at 9:00 and we got there at 9:06.... Oh well, next time we'll know better... We ended up eating at a Pasta Restaurant which was amazing. It was called Pastachinni. Wow the food was amazing. I had the most succulent Rizzoto that I have ever eaten with lump crab meat and Ralph had a Spagettini with mixed Seafood which was very flavourful. It was so good. We're at the Hampton Inn now right in the Heart of Savannah. What a nice area.

Yesterday we golfed in the afternoon with Chuck and Claudia - it was very cold, the wind was blowing quite strongly but it wasn't enough to stop us!! We went to a restaurant called Bone-Fish for dinner last night. Yummy... We all had the Chillean Sea Bass, done in different ways. Very good and tender. I would highly recommend it.

My golfing has been pretty consistent this holiday with most of my games below 100 and Ralph too has played amazing. Our golfing lessons have certainly paid off!!

We're on our way home now. We'll take our time. They aren't calling for good weather so well see what we encounter along the way. They are calling for rain/snow tonight in Savannah if you can believe that. It's pretty funny weather this year.

A few more pic's

I thought I would add a few more pictures of the birds and alligators that we saw.....

A trip through Alligator Alley

We decided to sleep in this morning and take our time getting ready to drive to Naples. Sleeping in for us, is 8:00 a.m. and we enjoyed a nice relaxing breakfast at the hotel. We left Miami without even looking at the beach. Can you believe that. The weather doesn't entice you to the beach. The drive from Miami to Naples is 2 hours. LOL We arrived in Naples at 4:30... We just loved Alligator Alley and would highly recommend everyone to take that drive one time. If you love nature, you will love Alligator Alley. I don't know how many Alligators we saw, but they must number close to 100 and the birds... there were hundreds of them. We would stop and walk around and before you knew it you saw birds in the tree's, wading in the water, you just had to know where to look. You wouldn't believe my excitement when I saw the first alligator. Ralph almost slammed on the breaks!! We had to stop and take a picture. I laughed when we finished our trip through the Alley, thinking of how we responded by the end... oh, there's another alligator - oh yah, that's nice, like it's something you see all the time. We went for a walk along a boardwalk which was quite interesting. We saw Cyprus knee's which I know are used for painting, an Eagles nest (didn't see the bird though we were told that there were egg's in the nest) and lots of birds. It was quite interesting.

We're at our Hotel in Naples right now currently looking for a place to eat. We plan to have a quiet night, probably go to bed early as we have a full day planned tomorrow. We've decided that we'll start driving home (slowly) on Thursday as they are calling for very cold weather and who know's if that will bring snow. We'll see as we drive along.

Our day at Doral

We got to Doral nice and early. It gave us a chance to walk around and check out the resort and golf course. What an amazing place. The weather was pretty cool but nice if you were out of the wind. We were able to tee off about 15 minutes earlier than our planned tee-off which was nice. We both played good games, actually Ralph played an awesome game shooting an 80 while I shot 100. I was pretty happy with that score as I had 3 bad holes, but was able to recover nicely. It's an awesome course. The next time we come down, we'll try the "Great White" course.

The big Day

I was up at 6:30 and Ralph was already gone... He's downstairs in the computer room at the hotel seeing if he can get his work done. The speed of the internet connection in our room isn't quite fast enough for his reports. I'm sure he wants to have all his work done quickly this morning so we can head over to Doral. I'll take a leisurely shower and go and have some breakfast and relax until he is finished. It's suppose to be 61F today so, I know for sure it's not a "shorts" day.

Sunday January 3

We got up early this morning and packed up the truck. We were on the road by around 8:30 and stopped and got a coffee at Starbucks and headed south. It was chilly this morning - at 39F...brrr.. By the time we arrived in Miami it had warmed up to 61F which was nice but the breeze was still cool. We listened to a sermon from Pastor Rand on the drive down. It was nice, but unfortunately I think we have now heard this one 3 times so it's time it got returned to the church library.

We had a wonderful day yesterday golfing at Orange County National - we golfed on a course called Panther's Lake. It's a very nice undulating course. Tiger Woods made his golf commercial at this course...it was interesting to see his pictures there...

While golfing we think we saw either a lynx or bobcat and the people at the course said that it's possible as there are cat's that roam the area. A coyote was also sited yesterday at the course. I took a picture, but it's not really in focus. The cat was quite a way away and it was getting dark. It's enough though to give you an idea of what we saw. We both played very good games. I shot a 95 and Ralph shot an 89. I got a little help from Ralph because of my sore ankle, where if my ball was on uneven ground he allowed me to move it to something more level. I still would have broken a 100 no matter what as I was having a great game. It was sunny yesterday and we really enjoyed ourselves. I think the temperature got as warm as 63F.

In the evening we went to Downtown Disney... It's crazy how busy these places are. We wanted to pick up a little something for the girls, so we braved the crowds.

I've bought some new glasses which I'll get my prescription filled when we get home. I couldn't decide which frame I liked better but the price was so good that I decided to purchase both. You'll have to let me know which ones you like ;-).

We checked out Doral today. What a place! I think we have to take Valet parking tomorrow and we planned to make sure our camera's are fully charged. The place is awesome. I'll have to give some thought as to what I'm going to wear tomorrow for sure. I hope it warms up. I think the forecast is for aroundn 61F.

Tomorrow morning Ralph has to do some work, so I'll take it easy and read my book. On Wednesday we plan to drive through alligator ally. I plan to have my camera and tripod ready. Driving here today we saw something like 20 hawks in the trees and we think we saw a few Eagles as well. It's really quite marshy along the drive. It will be interesting to see what is along that part of the highway.

Stayed tuned for an update tomorrow of our day at Doral.