We arrived at hobby and were picked up at the airport by our friends Pat and Barry Bolin. We spent our first night back at waterford with lorraine and Richard on their boat Loyalty! The second night down at the docks we spent on Daddy's Money with Joe and Dawna! They even hosted a impromptu party and we got a chance to see a bunch of our Texas sailing friends!
We then headed up the highway to the woodlands where we spent some time with my brother!
Next stop was Keller tx to see our daughter Alissa! My brother was nice and drove us up there!
We spent 3 great weeks with our daughter, one of the highlights was going to southfork ranch to see where the tv series Dallas is filmed!
Some photos below
-Pic of Anita at brother jays house in the woodlands
My girls at the southfork driveway!
Famous patio at southfork!
The kids in front of the sailing club they belong to!
After our stay at our daughters we flew to little rock to see friends and get some dental work done by our family dentist John Cloud.
View out the office window at Dr Clouds!
Took a walk over the new walking bridge over the arkansas river in little rock!
Next stop was st Louis to see my sister Debbie and her husband Bill. She spoiled me rotten with her great cooking!
After 3 days with my sis we flew to Chicago to spend 3 weeks with Anita's family! We spent a week in Galesburg work my father and mother in law Bruce and Joanne! Had a great time with them and got to brush up on my handyman skills for them.
Then it was back to Chicago to spend a couple of weeks with Anita's sister Marty and husband Chris, and kids Stephanie and Michale. Has a chance to see a bunch of their activities like band for Steph and Baseball for Michale. See photos below
Steph tooting her horn at the band display!
The girls at the family dinner before Stephs band program
More girls stuff at Marty's place in Chicago.
Above pic from a trip we took while we were in Galesburg, we drove down to Sullivan Illinois to see my 89 year old Aunt fran and her husband Elliot. My Aunt fran is the last of my moms side of the family and she had always been special to me.
We then flew to Pittsburg to spend time with our son John and his wife Katie and Daughter Edalie. We had a wonderful time with our kids and our grand daughter. Had another chance to break out the handy man stuff helping my son with the install of a new countertop and sink for the kitchen. He did a great job it looks super. See photos below
Our beautiful granddaughter!
Peek a boo I see you!
New kitchen !
August 28th saw us fly back to Baltimore and then caught a cab to Deltaville for our reunion with our floating home. Upon our arrival we arranged to have the boat hauled out and bottom painted, impeller changed etc. We rented a car and drove to DC and spent a busy day seeing all the sights. Next day we drove to Williamsburg and toured that area. Also on the way to DC we went to the John Stone national park. Anita is related to this signer of the Declaration of Independence. We got to see his home and his grave. Pics below
Pentagon on the way out of DC.
Hope diamond on display at national museum of history in DC
Photo from Williamsburg
More Williamsburg pics
More Williamsburg
This pretty much brings us up to date. We are currently anchored in Mills creek at the Solomon Islands in Maryland . We left Doziers yesterday at 10:30 am and had a great 8 hr run downwind. We will post again soon!
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