Update for 2012

Well it is a year later and we are finally getting around to updating the blog.  We went back to Florida  this winter but did not take the Airstream this year.  Instead we took a mini van and packed it to the brim.  My son came with us with his stuff on the way down.  He brought along a kayak to do some exploring in the Everglades.  After some trials, he decided the single person kayak would not have enough freeboard to make the one week trip.  He bought a tandem kayak for more carrying capacity and took off for the swamps.  My daughter drove down separately with her family to take a one week ocean cruise.  After the cruise my son drove back with them to Chicago and took the tandem.  We were left with the Perception to bring back to Chicago in the spring.  We spent the very mild winter doing some upgrading my sister's coach by replacing the damaged floor in one bedroom and over coated it with laminate flooring.  We did some upgrading on our coach as well.  We also spent a lot of time in the pool and enjoying ourselves.  We hot footed it home about April 22 covering the 1300 miles in two days. Since we have been home we have reconnected with out rental properties doing some preventive maintenance.  We have also help my son with the wood sailboat he bought last fall.  It is now at the Lake Forest Harbor and my son and my daughter's kids are spending some time on Lake Michigan.