The Countdown for Home has Begun!!!

.....and my whining has started!  It is too cold in PA right now to want to head back.  After all, it was 83 degrees here today!!!!

We had some light rain during the night and again early this morning.  After some debate, we decided to get ready and drive about 1 1/2 hours to Daytona Beach.  We knew this would be our last chance to go to the beach in the winter of 2013.  By the time we got there, the sun had come out and it was so warm!  We spent about 2 hours on the beach looking for shells and reading.  Amazing how there were  so few "jewelry" shells on this beach.  I think I only got about 4 the whole time we walked, and we went about 3 miles!  Disappointing.

Nice day on Daytona Beach!

No Shells to be found!!!

You can drive, bike swim, and walk on the beach!

We walked out on the dock!  Quite a fish!!!

We stopped at Aunt Catfish for a delicious 3:00 meal.   (Thanks Chuck and Melissa for the recommendation!)   They have a great salad bar and serve you their famous cinnamon roll and hush puppies with it.  We were able to sit outside and enjoy the water view!  Made one more stop at a Michael's Craft Store for more beads and wires!

Back to Willie by 5:30 and Ken started packing up for our trip home.  That was an important decision we made earlier today.  We are going to start for home on Wednesday, instead of the planned Thursday.  We hope to be home by Friday afternoon, but only drive about 6 hours per day, stopping 2 nights.  That will be so much better than leaving Thurs. and driving about 9 or 10 hours 2 days in a row. 

I spent the evening working on jewelry.  Had a nice conversation with our close friend and one of our PA camping partners, Doloris.  Also with my mother and our daughter, Lanie and Jamie.  We look forward to being with all of them when we return to PA!

Chuck and Melissa - we got it done today!!!!!!!