The last blog entry was quite a while ago and after that we headed south through Wisconsin, Illinois and then Kentucky and arrived in Florida just before Thanksgiving. In Wisconsin we experienced the awesome House on the Rock attraction and a night and a day in Madison which is a really cool town. Spent the day in Chicago and went to the Field Museum where they have the skulls of the Tsavo Lions (that I've always wanted to see since seeing the movie Ghost and the Darkness. Google it). Checked out some caves in Cave City, Kentucky near Mammoth Cave. Overall getting to Florida was pretty cold and rainy and reminded us of why we cut the trip sort of short to go south. Florida wound up having record breaking cold weather most of the month of December which was a bummer though we did get a few beautiful days.
We stayed all around Florida for over a month, spending Thanksgiving, Xmas and NYE with my parents. We spent over a week up in the St. Petersburg area trying to decide on where to start our new life but then at one point starting asking ourselves why wouldn't we return to Charlotte. We really have the strongest base here and the Florida summers plus lack of seasons started to seem different in reality vs. the mental image we had. We decided to keep Fl as a place for vacations but had a really great time with my folks and my aunt, uncle and cousin.. Cady and I even took advantage of the Grandma time and spent a weekend away in Miami for a Lady GaGa concert; our first ever time away from the boys for two nights.
When we finally decided to come back to Charlotte we were spending the week up in Sarasota at a great place called Sun N Fun RV resort which we look forward to returning to. I looked on Craigslist one day to see if there were any rentals listed in the Highland Creek neighborhood that we have several homeschooling friends in. I recognized the Blue Sky Ln. listing and called, mentioning that we have friends on that street. "They're my next door neighbors" was his reply. Long story short, we now live right next door to some good friends of ours and about 300 feet from some other close friends. It's all cul-de-sacs and neighborhood pool, impromptu happy hours and kids playing all the time around here. Really what we realized are our priorities nowadays. We are home....
...for now. :)
BTW in the end we put over 9000 miles on the car and trailer.There's a pic of the popup in her snug winter storage spot below. Psyched to pull her around NC this spring/summer camping...
St. Cloud, MN
Chicago, IL
Cave City, KY
Englewood, FL
Ft. Desoto, FL
Dunedin, FL
Sarasota, FL
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