Dolphins and Pick-Ups

Here's some stuff that happened today - our 7th day at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach, FL -

1) We went swimming in the Gulf beach today. Ellyn wasn't in the water too long because the "yellow flag" waves were a bit much for her but Geoff enjoyed them. We saw a pod of dolphins through the binoculars from the beach. Loved that!

2) Geoff flew an old kite of his and we started up a conversation with a couple on the beach. They are RVers staying in the park only two days and we had such a nice conversation that we all went out to dinner, tonight. It was a pleasure to exchange tips and experience with them. We exchanged our info-cards so we can keep in touch to perhaps meet-up for another dinner someday. (Oh yes, and the kite crashed - not sure how much repair is needed).

3) If you're following Ellyn's eye saga, you may recall that the new prescription still left her seeing double but it was improved. She found a place to order the stick-on prisms and bought a few different diopter strengths. They arrived today and the 3 diopter prism did the trick - so for the first time since February, Ellyn can now see well with her glasses!! YAY!!! She's going to make an appt. at John's Hopkins to follow-up on that on our way back to CT at the end of the month.

4) P.S. To Geoff's account of Ellyn's ear problem (yesterday), here's a link to a web description of how little of a problem it is: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vertigo/DS00534/DSECTION=causes. The ear-dr. who said I had this problem (when examining me for something, else), recommended the head-shaking solution and it seems to work.

It's hard to believe we only have 3 more days, here...so much kayaking, biking and beach-ing still to do.

Mother’s Day 2009

Staying in one place for a while has its perks. Today we got to be lazy in the morning. I got up and fixed Ellyn a nice breakfast of a mushroom and cheese omelet and some cantaloupe. Then we packed up all our dirty laundry and made a trip to a local coin laundry. All done in about 2 hours. Next, a quick lunch and off to the local Target to do a little shopping. Then to a movie theater to catch the new Star Trek movie. It was great!

At the Target, I got a little scare from Ellyn. As we approached the entrance, she suddenly grabbed me and said “I feel really dizzy. Hold onto me.”. I did that and she shook her head hard and said it was passing. I tried to get her over toward the store and out of the parking lot, but then she suddenly dropped to the ground. I was scared but she seemed to be laughing it off and shook her head again. Other people came up but she was able to get up and go on with the shopping. She said she had been diagnosed by her doctors to have some kind of sand in her inner ear. I had not heard of that but she said they told her to just shake her head and the sand would redistribute and the dizziness would go away. I guess it worked but I guess this was the first time it happened while she was standing. She had not told me about it before but I guess she has had it happen every couple weeks or so. Sheesh!

After the movie we walked around a little in the outdoor mall near the theater and then headed back to the RV. We had to move it over to the dump station at the park and empty the holding tanks. Now we should be ok until we leave here on Friday. Then we headed out to get some dinner but I had left my wallet in the RV by mistake. It was disappointing but we came back to the RV and just had some leftovers.

Now I need to put away the clean clothes and get our bed made back up so we can get some sleep. Tomorrow is another day in paradise.