Splash Dance

I sing.
I walk around the house and sing. I catch myself in the grocery store singing along with the music. I'm out working in the yard I sing.
I like to play a game with myself where I hear a word and see how many song I can think of with that word in it. Dream, Stars, Alone, Road etc... You get the picture.
I especially like to sing in the shower. LOUD!
One year for our birthday Sharen gave me a "Splash Dance" radio/cd player for the shower. I want to say about 20 years ago. I still have it. At the old house it hung in the shower with Velcro.
It sits on top of our medicine cabinet at our house now.
Nothing about any of this is strange, except I haven't changed the batteries in 15 years since we moved here.
I use it most every time I take a shower too. I don't change the station or even move it from it's spot. It still plays songs to take a shower by.

I hope I didn't just jinx myself. I really enjoy this thing.

Florida Vacation

Florida, I've decided is a nice place to visit (especially in the winter), but I could never live there.
Down there all everybody talks about is the weather. What's to talk about it's hot or hotter. It was nice that the sun was shining, of course. We took walks on the "scenic trail" and it was not scenic. It was all sand dunes. It was sandy and dusty. No shade. I couldn't imagine what it would be like in the summer when it was hotter.

This is Scenic?

Golfing, we went to the closest course from our resort. It wasn't great. But we couldn't complain we were playing golf in February. and we could see our resort across the bay.

Those buildings are our resort

The next day we decided to drive an extra 15 minutes and try another course.
Mike calls for a tee time and the girl at the course asks him for a phone number. She recognized the area code and says "Oh, Chicago area?"
Mike tells her we are from Elgin. Turns out she is a friend of Bobby's daughter, Denise.
Mike was friends and worked with Bobby for 30 years. Well Sandy gave us a tee time and told us to stop in after to say Hi. (She wasn't scheduled to start work till after our t-time)
When we got there she was there - She had talked with Denise and said she didn't want to miss meeting us. Small world!

The resort where we stayed was very large. It had 5 towers of condos. It also had 5 pools and hot tubs. I was really happy it was off season. I wouldn't want to be there with more people.
The view from our 13th floor condo had the bay on the right and the ocean on

the left. Nothing in between. I didn't get a picture of Mike at the grill with the view, but I did get a picture of him eaing breakfast at our table.

Breakfast before Golf

Ocean View

View of the Bay

I'm glad we got away and relaxed. But I was glad to drive home into trees and mountains and cool, fresh air. I love experiencing all the four seasons and being right close to our families in Illinois.

It's All About the Journey

 Mike and I take an Anniversary trip each year. We try and go some place warm where we can play some golf.
This year I picked Pensacola Beach FL. We stopped there coming home after our 25th anniversary at Disney World and really liked the place. Mike was fine with this place it has 2 courses near by.
Nashville is close to 1/2 way so we decided to take our break from driving there .We had no idea what the weather would be so we came down a day early. There is plenty of things to do down here.
Broadway was our first stop. I love all the Neon. It was wet, but it wasn't raining so we walked all around.

My Grandson's Name in Lights

We stopped at Blake Shelton's restaurant to get some lunch and listen to some country music. I never could understand how some people "make it" and others are singing in bars on Broadway in Nashville on a Friday at lunch.

 We added another "Hall of Fame"  to our list with a stop at the Country Music Hall of Fame. The place is jammed packed with history. But I did manage to find my favorite singer.

Mike got us tickets to The Grand Old Opry for our anniversary and I was very excited. Teri Clark was one (there were 7) that was singing and I love her music. Vince Gill was a late addition. Love him too.

The  show is actually live radio so things moved along very fast and everyone was on time.