Well we've made it back from our seemingly whirlwind 9 day vacation! We had a great time with family and friends!
We started off out of Cleveland on Friday and flew into Orlando. From there we stayed at a place called Rosin Shingle Creek. 
It's a new hotel/resort and was really nice. I especially like the adult only swimming pool, as we were usually the only 2 swimming! Ken liked the golf course! The bathroom there was probably bigger than our entire room on the cruise ship! LOL! We bummed around an area on International Drive Friday evening and ate and wandered around an outlet mall. Sat. we decided to head over to the Magic Kingdom since neither of us had been there since we were kids. It was fun, but we probably should have done one of the Universal parks as I think we would have had more fun. Oh well! Then Ken's cousin and his girlfriend came and picked us up and we went to Downtown Disney/Pleasure Island. We ate at House of Blues and just wandered around for awhile. Sunday more of Ken's relatives came down and the guys all golfed and us gals took a trip to Ikea and then hung out in the pool. After they were done golfing we all ate dinner together.
Monday morning we headed out for our cruise. We went with another couple from home who were also in Florida visiting family. We went on Royal Caribbeans Sovereign of the Seas, out of Port Canaveral. 
It's their oldest ship but it was still very nice. We had a great time, it was a 4 day cruise so not very long but a ton of fun just the same! Our ports were Coco Cay, which is Royal Caribbeans own island. It was nice but not very exciting so we went back to the ship and enjoyed the pool without a lot of people around. We also went to Nassau Bahamas 
for a day and that was a blast! 
We first just wandered around a bit, then met a taxi driver named Dee-Dee who was a riot! 
She took us around the Island and showed us the sites
, we met some locals, and had the best fresh fruit smoothies EVER! 
She dropped us off at Atlantis and we wandered around there a bit before 
heading back to the ship for dinner. 
After dinner we went back to the island and stopped at Senor Frogs for a few drinks and fun before heading back to the ship for the night. Thursday was an at sea day so we just hung out by the pool and enjoyed the sun.
Friday we left the ship and headed out. Our friends dropped us off at the Sanford Airport and Ken's cousin then came and picked us up in his plane! He has a Saratoga 7 seater plane! 
It was awesome (I've flown with him before a couple times) he flew us over Disney 
, and Winter Haven-where he lives. We saw the field where the Indians used to do spring training 
and over Cypress Gardens. 
(When I first moved into my old house there was a HUGE mural on the wall in the kitchen of the gardens in Cypress Gardens!) Saturday we hopped in the plane again and headed up to Leesburg to pick up another cousin, and then on up to St. Augustine. 
We rented a car and all headed to town 
to wander around. I could have definitely spent a couple days there rather than a few hours. We visited the fort 
, and the old jail 
. After that we went back to Leesburg for dinner at Ken's Uncle's house and met up with some more family (OK so I took mostly pictures of the puppies instead of the people..but comehow darn cute are they?!) 
before heading back to Winter Haven. Sunday it was time to pack up and head back home! No wonder I was Exhausted on Monday! We really did have a great time though!
OH yeah knitting..at lot less done that I tought I'd get too, isn't that always the case? I finished a sock and started the Lacey Bolero-but only got the ribbing done and like 3 rows of lace.
I can't believe I have to go back to work on Friday! bummer! Where did this summer go!?!?!
...I have magazines, books, yarn, needles, notions, lotion...What mess (actually it is a bit cleaner than usual) 
but what a great mess! I hide some of my projects in the space between the end table and sofa. It keeps Abby out of it! LOL Does anyone else have this kind of space? I mean this doesn't nearly encompass all my stash- that's in another room!
since I finished Newport (picts soon). I've been on a bulky knit kick lately. I'm using the Berkshire Bulky so it's going very fast. It's knit in the round from the top down but the sleeves are knit before the body. Though I think I want to start Hey Teach after I finish up Marianas.
I used the magic cast on from Knitty! Oh man is EASY! If you haven't tried this for Toe up socks you have to!!! It is unbelievably easy!!! I'm just going to knit in plain stockinette. 
The yarn is from Patons it's called Kroy Socks.
