Friends Arriving...fun time!

 Beautiful day, but a tad bit on the cool side.  Considering the forecast for the Northeast, we take the nip in the air, warmed  a bit by the always shining, Florida sun.  We are looking forward to our first house guests of the 2011. Mr. Bill's best buddy Ward, arriving tomorrow in the AM for a few days.  Hopefully the impending snow storm in the North, not wreaking havoc with travel schedules.

We laughed about that this morning over coffee, remembering how winter vacations always seemed to be changed due to snow.  Amazing, it doesn't snow for days or weeks, but plan on flying out months in advance, sure as hell, snow wind, all sorts of natural disasters, arrive on departure day!  Of course our vacations usually took place during the months after the holidays, for obvious reasons, a definite slow down in business due to weather, paying off holiday debts and those ever hopeful New Year's resolution of eating healthier, losing weight and saving a few dollars.  So business usually dropped off until will power dwindled, boredom of being shut in during the cold winter or the first income tax refunds arrived.  Yippee...money, money, money...no more hibernation, splurge on food!

A number of years ago, long before our move and a few years before our youngest son became a Disney Cast Member, Mr. Bill Ward, myself and friends Doris and Patty decide to head to Disney for a week.  We would drive, renting a large Cadillac, allowing for leg room and comfort.  As usual, the departure date set, everyone on the brink of excitement, anticipation and an early January storm producing over a foot of snow, socks in the little Town of Sprague and most other major metropolitan areas in the I-95 corridor.  Not to be outwitted, Big Joe Lussier with his snow plow, cleans out the driveway allowing a get-a-way, with a drive straight through.  Leaving in the evening, I remember hitting Washington D.C., thinking alleluia, we made it.  Quite the trip we still laugh and talk as we remember the "finer" points of the vacation.  Mr. Bill and Ward just "newbies" at the game of golf, Doris, Patty and I off to do whatever as the the two honed their golf skills.

Now, almost twenty years later, Mr. Bill and Ward, still attempting to hone their skills, as for myself, honing is on the back burner, career calls first.   Hopefully, with the impending warmer weather. some stretching exercises, and walking, I won't hurt myself with the first swing.  But it is with great anticipation we welcome our friend Ward, the buddies have weathered much over the past months...now a time of renewed health and fun!