12/17/14  - The last couple of days have not been very eventful.  I changed our plans for Monday 12/15 since I thought I would get the RV back but later learned that there were some more issues.  We then decided to go visit Anna Maria Island.  We found a city pier with a restaurant at the end.  It was a very interesting place and a small beach.  We then drove all the way down to south Sarasota before driving back to the mainland.

On 12/16, I spent all day with a cousin of mine that I have been active with a circle letter that includes three of us cousins since 1979.  It was such a good day because she shows me all of her area including places of work, churches, place were people lived, several farm markets.  We had lunch and ended the day with a Dairy Queen blizzard.  It will now make so much sense when she writes things in her letter.  We went back to her house and there her mother and daughter came over and I learned to play a marble game.  We had so much fun and it was a wonderful day for me.

Today, we did a load of laundry and then decided to try the Bradenton Beach.  We got out to the beach with umbrella, chairs, books and drinks.  It started out a nice day but by 4:00pm, the wind arrived and it got very cool so we packed up and came home.  Now the evening will including playing on the computer and crocheting an afghan.