Spring break

This week from Daytona, Florida.  We missed the big college spring break and a bigger bike week, but we just returned from a wonderful and wonderfully warm week with John and Marilyn in their new home outside Daytona.  It's a carefree, relaxed lifestyle they have built in a community with a pool and lots of stuff to do.  Free stuff too.  

We went down last Monday after Easter Sunday here with Annie and Dan Boyle.  We did our traditional Easter dinner at the Red Lion Inn (anyone want to join, come on up).  Annie had come up Thursday in a truck with Greg hauling furniture they were going to store for a while.  Greg left Saturday, and we took Annie to the train Sunday evening.  The Easter bunny came, ate some carrots and got into the Scotch before leaving a few goodies for Sunday morning.  Anyway it was a wonderful weekend, and nice to see Dan, who is teaching swimming in New London.  Mary also is volunteering to teach swimming, to non-swimmers.  Very rewarding to see people go from fear of the water to confidence.  

Since Mary had the week off from school, and my one class had been canceled, we decided to check out John and Marilyn's new digs.  We picked a great week, for the weather.  We never wore socks or long pants, shorts and tee-shirts the whole time.  We went to the beach three times and lost track of time on the boogie boards.  Great waves, long rides.  John and Marilyn were great hosts, taking us up to St. Augustine for one day to sight-see and showing us the local scene.  It was odd, being on vacation, since there we're retired, but we embraced being on vacation from retirement.  Mary went to the local YMCA to get in her laps a couple of times, and found it was the home pool for Ryan Lochey, the Olympic medal winner.  That's excitement.  

One of the reasons she went swimming was we kind of fell way off our diets, and happily so given our Lenten no-sweets fasting.  Marilyn even found a recipe for David Eyre's pancake and surprised us one morning.  We'll have to find it ourselves, cause it was a real treat.  Trivia - where did we live when we were making David Eyre's pancakes on Sunday evenings? 

We just go off the phone with Margaret who is in Lancaster PA with Andrew putting some final touches on their big day in a few weeks.  Joe was also traveling this past week, going back to St. Andrews for the first time since he graduated.  And, he has a new job, back in Washington n the China desk for Treasury.  He'll be returning in mid-June.  ​ 

Some of you may know that Paula has been taking painting classes. This Friday her work is going to be exhibited -- congratulations!  

I had to change the e-mail for posting since at least one of you noticed last week that our site had an unwelcome addition.  I'll send around the new e-mail for posting.

And happy birthday to Peter!  Wonderful.

That means it's almost the end of April and its showers, so we're looking forward to seeing a few flowers, without snow.

Love from over here.