More Treasure

The next morning, Jan took us to one of her favorite places, as evidenced by the way she just lit up while we were there, the barn. We met Elmo. The word for Elmo is chill. He's a sweet and mellow horse. He had to have surgery for a hurt leg this week, which we hope heals easily.


Morgan was there training a horse. She was busy so we didn't get to chat, but Jan showed us some videos of Zoey later. We also got to meet some of Jan's students.

There were some happy people at the barn. Maybe horse is synonymous with Happy.


You can see that Olivia is catching the Happy bug...


Later, we were all happy when we were able to talk Meme, Poppy and Mitchell into stopping by for a meal at Cracker Barrel.

Treasure 1

This Spring Break held many treasures for me. We took off in the camper bound for two very different locations: Sanibel Island and Blue Springs.

The first day's travel was full of surprises. TWO flat tires, three if you count the spare that was flat when we put it on the camper. Poor Brad had to change the tires 4 times, I think. Luckily the flats happened on the way out instead of on the way home. The first flat was on 301 near MacClenny. We ended up at the WalMart where we confirmed that we are not as redneck as we thought.

The second flat was just a few minutes before the exit off I-4 that would take us to Jan and Pete's house. By then Brad had gotten really good at changing the tire. I think it only took about ten minutes to get the spare on.

Jan and Pete invited all the Tampa relatives to greet us: Terry, Tony and his friend Cat, Lisa, Cody, Mamma and Al were all at the house when we finally pulled in. What a treat to see everybody! Cody's finger was, well, kinda scary with that pin sticking out of it. Yikes! He just grinned. Compare that to Olivia's scraped knee which is causing her to limp and wear a very large bandage.

One of my favorite moments was on the house tours: First the big house, then the little house built just for Glenda by Peter. Glenda was our tour guide. When we got to her house, she said that it was "almost" finished. This made Peter raise his eye brows. I don't think the little house is on Peter's list anymore. There are just two shelves to find on which two dolls will rest. Oh, I forgot about the third house: the one with wheels. When you count our camper, we could have set up a refugee camp with all the beds available.

I wish I had gotten the camera out! That evening was my first treasure... more tomorrow.