Water, Sunshine, & Friends

Orlando, the land of Disney, sunshine, water parks, and shopping is also the land of seniors with the average age over 60 years. However, Disney aside, the best part of yesterday was visiting with old friends. Benny & Teresa Holloway are working only ten miles from our hotel so we spent our first night with them and then had lunch with them yesterday. It was fun catching up on kids, travels and activities.

By 3:30, we were n St. Petersburg, about 80 miles frm here. Walt and Joy Seward have been friends since the early 70's. We've kept in touch while they lived in Ecuador as missionaries and when they moved to the US so Walt could take a positon as publisher's agent for a couple of major Christian publishing houses. Now they live in St. Petersburg so visiting with them was a real treat. In the photo, Henry and Walt catch up.

We lazed around for the most part today. I was thinking about everyone in Iowa and Canada, surrounded by snow and freezing temperatures, as I sat in the sun, soaked up some rays, and swam laps in a pool that had bathwater temp water. If you look closely, you can see me roughing it. One session of sun tanning and I look as if summer never ended last year - almost. I could get used to this life. Henry and I were just saying how wimpy we've become since leaving Canada. The cold is not as much fun as it used to be, if it ever was.