I'm dreaming of a white Christmas....NOT!!!

Before I came down with this ridiculous head cold, we had a very busy (FUN) week. We headed for a new market in Sanford....where I bought nothing but a new cell phone/camera case.

This is a conversation piece which sits in one of the isles. In 1986 they had a contest to guess how many pennies were in here. The person who came the closest won that amount of money....not in pennies though. Here is the bummer....no one was around who knew the amount...anybody want to guess. I will have an answer shortly.

Wednesday morning we headed to Susie Muldoon's for coffee and Amish sweet rolls. Susie and Terry will also be hosting the Christmas Eve Day Brunch. Ruth Starcher helps Susie serve.

Tuesday we all headed for Deleon Springs State Park. What a cool place this was.... Here is the gang in front of the Old Spanish Sugar Mill Pancake House (inside the park).

The Menu....
And here what was so cool about it. The grills were built right into the tables and everyone cooked their own food. We all choose the "famous" pancakes.

Darlene and Salt with the "Dueling Spatulas"....

Yummmm....I was concerned about the lumps in the batter but was told that they would bake out and made the pancakes lighter......

There were alligators all along the river banks.....


Here I am about to stick my feet in the "Fountain of Youth".....OK, so you thought the Fountain of Youth was in St. Augustine right. Well, come to find out there is no Fountain of Youth. It was a myth first introduced by the writer Washington Irving. I guess Ponce Deleon had no interest in a Fountain of Youth.....bummer, huh?


We took the boat ride and got to do some bird watching.....

Took a walk on the nature trails.....here is Methuselah...

Oh yes....on Saturday we took in yet another Christmas play...the Santa land Diaries.

The boys finally caught enough fish for our first fish fry. Doug has the secret recipe and did all the cooking.

From the look on his face it would appear Gene was enjoying!!

Five or six of the guys have lined up a deep sea fishing trip for the 6Th of January. Salt is very excited....they will go quite a ways out and I am hoping Grouper will still be in season.

Saturday we went into MT Dora to watch the kids slide in the park. The lights were beautiful throughout the town.

And here are the little Floridian kids with their only taste of snow. Every year they make snow and let the kids slide. OMG you should have seen the lines. I was SO glad we didn't have any kids with us. It was fun to watch them though and just walk and listen to Christmas music. They have the quaintest little shops in MT Dora....unfortunately with the economy as poor as it is, they are suffering like all of Main Street USA.

After we came back from MT Dora we stopped in at the Clubhouse for some Karaoke. Boy would I love to have Alice and Janna here to get up and do the Dixie Chicks "Earl has to Die".This crowd would love that show!!

I guess that about brings me up to date.....Salt has been going and doing while I try to recuperate from this cold. After bowling on Friday, he went with the Starchers into Daytona (to the beach) and to pick up tickets for the Lipizzaner Stallions. We will be going to see them after Christmas and before the cruise.