Christmas 2008

Rod and I traveled to Fernandina with Bonnie on Christmas Day. Traffic was light luckily. Rod had to work early, so, he was home by 9 a.m. and we were on the road with food, gifts and luggage by 10 a.m.

We arrived at Deb's house shortly after 1 p.m. and unloaded the van. We almost had to make this trip in the Miata--I can't imagine how that would have gone. I had made the dinner stuff the night before and put the turkey breast in the oven in the morning. SO, everything basically had to be heated up, hopefully without drying it all up.

Deb had everything decorated beautifully. I lit the candles and popped things in the oven and waited for the party to start! Deb and Jan were in Orlando with Bo and his family, but, were expected to be back sometime on Friday.

Rod took off to pick up his parents, but, his Dad was stuck on the computer...trying to get it to do what he wanted it to do. So, Cody came ahead with her cornbread dressing and a jello salad. We cracked open some Mimosas and started celebrating. About an hour later Rod Sr. arrived and all the food was ready to go.

After dinner, while opening gifts we received a call from the Iowa Turbots which enabled Rod Sr. to scratch another thing off his list of things to get done. Cody and I took a nice walk to work off dinner and hopefully walk off some of Bonnie's steam. Shortly after, Rod's parents headed back home while we made sure all the candles were blown out. Another Christmas for the books.

Friday morning Deb and Jan showed up early, so we made plans to do a movie and grill out in the evening. Rod wanted to use up the ham we had bought, so we nixed the grill plans. Cody and I had wanted to see "Australia" but it was already gone from the local theater, so, Deb and I did the Brad Pitt movie, "Benjamin Button" instead.

Later we tried to get everyone together for ham and fixings at Deb's but Rod Sr. and Cody had a big meal at lunchtime, so they passed. We enjoyed seeing Elizabeth, Deb's friend and her dogs--including her new rescue, "Daphney". Boomer seemed to put up with Bonnie's dog shanigans better than before, so it looks like Daph has mellowed him out a bit.

All in all a nice trip to North Florida. :)