December 16, 2009 Catching up.

The lawn all decorated at the Burroughs House in Ft Myers.

Inside the Burroughs house.

Coming up the porch of the Burroughs House.

View from accross the street

Langsfor-Kingston House

The art museum downtown.

Tuesday the 15th we went out to Captiva Island
to the Mucky Duck and took our Christmas card picture.

The Mucky Duck

Beautiful Captiva

More beach. It always reminds John and I when

we spent a whole month here when Ryan was just

3 months and Jackie was 4.

The Mucky Duck from the ocean view.

Neighbor Donna at their house for dinner.

Donna's husband , Tom.

John and Donna getting into the wine!!

I am trying to get caught up on my blogging. We were so busy getting the house organized and somewhat decorated that not much else new happened. We are slowly meeting people and learning the ropes around here. We actually got our first dinner invite by our neighbors Donna and Tom. We had a delicious dinner and spent the evening talking and learning about each others lives. We then reciprocated last weekend and had them here for dinner. After dinner we played a card game called "Phase 10". We laughed so hard, yes, I wet my pants!!! Tom was pretty funny!!!

Just the other day John and I drove out to Sanibel-Captiva for the afternoon. We ate lunch at the Mucky Duck and took our Christmas card picture on the beach in front of a Christmas tree.

The island really hasn't changed since we have been going there in 1981. They have replaced a lot of trees due to hurricane damage but basically it is the same. Kind of refreshing to know that some things don't change.

Tonight we went to downtown Ft Myers in the River District and had dinner outside and then toured the Burroughs and Langford-Kingston homes. They are two beautiful old homes that have been preserved and are part of the historical homes now. The city decorates them for the Christmas season and you can tour them both for $5.00. They were very pretty.

Historically they were friends of Mr. Edison, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Firestone.

We leave for home in two days. We are excited to see our family and friends. Will post Christmas pictures later.