Hollywood here we come!

Thursday we went to Hollywood.

Hollywood Florida.

I want to come here again. It has a 5 mile boardwalk.

No cars. Only people.

There are stores galore, and every kind of eatery you can imagine.

We rented this bike and rode up and down the boardwalk for 1.5 hours.

Then there was this playground the boys played at. It was a boring one. No slide or swings. So that ended fairly quickly.... Because they discovered this on the other side of the playground.

Mike and I sat in the shade and watched them and the people. Once they were thoroughly soaked, we took them to the beach to get even wetter. Then we discovered that the bag with the extra clothes in it was still at the hotel.

So they got to pick their own pictures/sayings on clothes at a cute little shop. Caleb loves pictures of sharks and Zachary was excited to get a shirt saying Daddys best buddy.

Monday was back to school. Zachary started 2nd grade, Christina 11th!

We took Zachary back to school shopping, and he picked out all his own outfits. Isn't he a sharp dresser?

Well, we had our first 'major' storm, although it turned out to not be too bad at all.

Tropical Storm Fay came in very very slowly Monday night, Tuesday, and it's still here today. Some decent winds, and a good amount of rain. But no thunder. No lightning.

This was last night. We are in the area of the last 'O' in Orlando. You can see the eye south of us. Luckily, it veered off to the east a little bit, so we didn't get much excitement. But I stocked up just in case. Lots of water, and easy food. Made lots of ice. We have so much camping equipment and supplies, that I am not worried if we had to be without power or water for a week. I guess the water is the biggest issue after a storm because of bacteria that easily gets in it. Yuck! Nascat is finally getting use to the kitties and is starting to play with them. Although they still think he is being mean. Maybe he is still being a bit of a bully. Nascat kept wanting to go out in the storm last night, so we let him out back. It was raining pretty good, but he didn't care. He came back an hour later soaked. What a wierdo! There is no school again today.

Yesterday Mike and I took apart the boys closet and replaced the shelf about 2 feet lower, and added 2 new shelves. Then we pulled out their beds and furniture and gave the room a floor to ceiling cleaning.

I don't think that Mike wants to do any projects today tho.

I just asked him and he just smiled at me. heehhee!

My sister in law Michelle is doing better.

Here is the web site to get updates on her and baby John.

Continue to pray for them.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/michellemattingly