I just got home after spending a week in Park City, Utah, with Laura and her family. Just like 2 years ago, we stayed in the Westgate Resort in Park City. However, there wasn't a lot of snow - hardly any down where we were, and, most of the time we only needed a light jacket. Up on the slopes it was better, but apparently there wasn't good powder. It was kind of icy, making skiing and snowboarding (which Brian and Cade do) a little more tricky. Laura took a bad fall her second day and wrenched her thumb, so she was not to enthused about skiing too much more. Mostly we shopped in Park City. I did take a lot of pictures, which I haven't edited yet. I'll have to post them in the next day or so.
I left Park City yesterday at 2:30 PM, flew to Denver, where I had a 3 hour layover. They had to de-ice the plane before we could leave Denver, because it was sleeting and snowing. After we were in the air, I did watch the movie "Frozen", which was available on a seat-back video player - neat. What a cute movie! If you have children, they will love it, and the songs are so catchy. Finally got to Nashville after 11:00 PM, and then had to wait 45 min. for our luggage. My darling youngest daughter was there to pick me up, but it sure did make for a long day! I spent the night there, and then headed for home today, after they left for church. It feels so good to be back in my favorite lounge chair, sitting by my husband, and catching up on what went on during the week. I have to start making another baby book that's been ordered, so tomorrow I'll get to it. Love to all. Sorry I haven't written much lately. Judy
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- I was raised in South Florida back in the years when it was a peaceful and wonderfully safe place to live. We lived a mile from the beach and could ride our bikes over the intercoastal bridge right to the best beach around. All my years of growing up I was a competitive swimmer and belonged to AAU. I granduated from Florida State University with a BS degree in nursing. I am recently retired but I'm thinking of going back to work to support my hobbies.
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Friday, July 6, 2012
SOME TIME WITH OUR DAUGHTERS AT THE LAKE
We left with our visiting daughter, son-in-law and their son Cade to spend 2 days and a night with our youngest daughter on Norris Lake just outside of LaFollette, north of Knoxville. It was a huge cabin with 3 stories, 5 bedrooms and three full baths, and Kim and her family had rented it for a week and taken our boat to the dock right below the cabin. The first few days they spent with their employees and their families, but the last three days were for family members - and boy did a lot of family members show up! Kim's husband's family and a baby showed up, as well as the 5 of us with my sister and brother (who were only there for Thursday during the day). We all had to bring our pot-luck offerings, so there was food galore!
For the most part, we spent all of our time either on the boat or on the dock floating in the water on our life vests. The younger kids were learning to ski on youth skiis tied together, while Benjamin, the teenager, practiced his wake boarding and slalom skiing. I prefered to stay at the dock and just stay cool floating in the water.
At about 5:00, the afternoon storm arrived with a vengance, and by the time we got back to the house, the wind was roaring, the thunder and lightening got closer and closer, and our electricity went out. So much for warming up our pot-luck supper! It was really quite a storm all over east Tennessee. the Smokies were really hit hard. Two people were killed when trees fell on them, and people in the campgrounds were trapped in by trees across the roads. As for us, Ben's family all left, and my brother and sister had to head for home too, so that just left our family with Kim and hers. We almost left too, but all the kids began to cry, Kim started to cry, and then I started to cry, because I felt that we were deserting the ship, so to speak. So, as it turned out, my husband drove into town and found a CVS pharmacy that was open and bought three flashlights. We had hot dogs on the grill and played charades in the dark, and the kids absolutely loved it. Finally, at about 10:00 P.M., the electricity came back on, and things returned to normal, and we all got a good night's sleep. We did have to leave the next day, but I'm so glad that we didn't ruin things by leaving the night before. Kim and Ben had planned so much for this family get-together, and I know she would have been so disappointed if we left just because the electricity was out
On the way home, we stopped at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, TN. My next few posts will be all about that.
For the most part, we spent all of our time either on the boat or on the dock floating in the water on our life vests. The younger kids were learning to ski on youth skiis tied together, while Benjamin, the teenager, practiced his wake boarding and slalom skiing. I prefered to stay at the dock and just stay cool floating in the water.
At about 5:00, the afternoon storm arrived with a vengance, and by the time we got back to the house, the wind was roaring, the thunder and lightening got closer and closer, and our electricity went out. So much for warming up our pot-luck supper! It was really quite a storm all over east Tennessee. the Smokies were really hit hard. Two people were killed when trees fell on them, and people in the campgrounds were trapped in by trees across the roads. As for us, Ben's family all left, and my brother and sister had to head for home too, so that just left our family with Kim and hers. We almost left too, but all the kids began to cry, Kim started to cry, and then I started to cry, because I felt that we were deserting the ship, so to speak. So, as it turned out, my husband drove into town and found a CVS pharmacy that was open and bought three flashlights. We had hot dogs on the grill and played charades in the dark, and the kids absolutely loved it. Finally, at about 10:00 P.M., the electricity came back on, and things returned to normal, and we all got a good night's sleep. We did have to leave the next day, but I'm so glad that we didn't ruin things by leaving the night before. Kim and Ben had planned so much for this family get-together, and I know she would have been so disappointed if we left just because the electricity was out
On the way home, we stopped at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, TN. My next few posts will be all about that.
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