CHRISTMAS AT THE BEACH

Bob and Liz stopped by late morning and asked if we wanted to go to the beach with them. So we did. It was really neat and something we have done before is to spend Christmas Day at the beach. And all you folks up north have nothing on us with all your snow and snowmen. We have our very own sandman. We don't know who made it but it was just down from where we were sitting. I thought that was so cute. They have their own way of celebrating down here. Here is Rick, Bob and Liz in the water. The water was a bit cool until you got used to it. Then it was refreshing. Rick and Bob deep in conversation. Don't know about what. They are probably solving the worlds problems. These birds were standing along the beach looking out into the water. Wonder what they were thinking? We had a good time. Now the turkey is in the oven and just starting to smell good. We already had dessert of pumpkin pie. I love a meal where you start with the dessert first. It had just started to rain as we were headed back to the park and now it is sprinkling again. Clouds have been coming and going all day. The traffic here is really starting to get bad. But we were told that it would get worse by the first of the year. We will be leaving here on Tuesday so just a few more days of real congested traffic.

We talked to both our kids, our parents, and a couple of friends. When Rick talked to our 3 year old grandson, he pretended to be Santa. Jay asked him where he was and he said the North Pole. Then Jay said that you didn't look like Santa and our son asked him how he could tell since he was on the phone. Then we told him that it was just Pappy and he started laughing. They had no electric when we talked to them. Hope it comes on soon. They were headed out to relatives for dinner. Then our daughter called and talked with Rick. They were supposed to go over to our niece's house to have dinner and Rick's dad was supposed to be there also. That will do him some good. He loves his grand kids and great grand kids. Hope everyone had a great day.