Barbara's Birthday

Our next door neighbor, Barbara, is 80 years old today.  Her children gave a super birthday party for her at the East Ocean Bistro in Stuart.  There was a huge cake, there were many, many balloons,  there were leis to wear, and there was a three course meal for everyone.

We sat at a table with other residents of 3624 Quail Meadow.   At our table were Ron and Joanne, and Tony and Dorothy.  It was a perfect chance to meet our new neighbors and have a nice three hours getting to know them.  It was a lovely party, and we had a great time.  We are so glad to have been included :)

The meal was delicious, especially the creme brûlée !

Dick and Ron enjoying it all :)

Pictures to Remember

The blog has kind of fallen into disrepair during the past few weeks.  There are so many other things to do in South Florida.  Maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying to remember what we have done.  There has been a small amount of geocaching, and a large amount of shopping for the condo - just things like a dust buster, hot pads, and dishcloths - necessary things that are easy to forget!  There has been a fun amount of spending time on Saint Creek Drive, especially watching Downton Abbey.
It was also a very fun day when we all went to see Frozen,  met up with Andie and Lainie, and then went to Laurie's for pizza.  I'll try to remember which day that was!

Right now, Chip is at training in Dallas, Laurie and Dylan went to a get-together at Peyton's on Friday night, yesterday Laurie and Dick and I went to Tradition shopping for a birthday gift for our neighbor, and then did a little caching while Dylan was at his tennis clinic.  Afterwards, Dick did great burgers on the grill for all of us.

This week we've also had a torrential rainfall -  hundred year event they say - which caused much flooding, but not by us, thank goodness.

New Year's Eve Day on the fishing pier in Fort Pierce

Father/son togetherness on dirt bikes in the dirt :)

Our very own Man from Mars

The view from our condo office, including sand trap and screen!

A Few South Florida Finds

Your Geocaching Details

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01/11/2014	You couldn't find Happy Birthday Monkey Girl: Redux		Visit Log
Out with Mrs Sharkie on a shopping run. Drew a blank. The hide is too much for us today.
01/11/2014	You found Jabba the Hut		Visit Log
Out with Mrs Sharkie buying a birthday present for our 80 year old neighbor. The log is damp. Look out for fire ants.
01/08/2014	You found August 3rd		Visit Log
We completed the August Challenge and got the souvenir while still up in Michigan. It was a nice gesture to place these here for those seeking the same down here. We were out for a ride exploring the routes to the Tradition area from our new condo. We pulled into the WalMart parking lot and Nuvi said there is a cache here. In fact, more than one. We did two before shopping. A quick peek and Zap! Signed log and replaced as found. TFTC
01/08/2014	You found August 2nd		Visit Log
We were out for a ride exploring the routes to the Tradition area from our new condo. We pulled into the WalMart parking lot and Nuvi said there is a cache here. A quick peek and Zap! Signed log and replaced as found. TFTC
01/04/2014	You found Who knows?		Visit Log
The magnetic nano was laying on the ground in the dirt under the yellow thing. Log was soaked and too wet to sign. Replaced with scrap of paper, signed and replaced where we think it fell from.
01/04/2014	You will attend Tower Flash (mob) and Dash		Visit Log
We are looking forward to it
01/01/2014	You found Hidden Pond		Visit Log
Happy New Year! We've been down here for two weeks and hadn't even looked for a cache. When I saw that yesterday our friend Goldfinch completed his goal of finding at least 10 caches each of the 366 days of the year, I decided to get off my butt and extend my morning walk south to the nearest cache. Made the find, signed the log and replaced as found. TFTC