So another winter season at Sun-N-Fun RV Resort has come to an end and we are preparing to head out again in our motorhome to points north. Our plan for this year is to spend about a month in New England visiting with friends and family (and mostly seeing our adorable Grandchildren), and then working our way back down to Florida in July. We will likely be back into our home in August. We know, it sounds crazy but we have done so much traveling the past three years we have decided to do much less of it this year. Also, we have some doctor appointments this summer which cannot be done remotely so we will have to be here in Florida during the long, hot, dog days of summer.
The season at Sun-N-Fun was great. Geoff had a wonderful time teaching guitar, bowling, playing horseshoes and learning Pickleball. Ellyn had her many sewing activities to keep her quite busy and we had lots of time for going to the pool, visiting with our friends here in the park and going to events outside the park. The spring has had us going to lots of movies, as there was a Jewish Film Festival in March and then the Sarasota Film Festival in April.
The car has had its spring tune up and the RV will be going in next week for an oil change. Then we will be packing all of the stuff we will need for our travels into the motorhome and also packing into the last two weeks here in Sarasota all the things we want to do before saying goodbye for a few months.
Update: A day before we were ready to leave Sarasota for the Summer, we found out that Geoff’s Mother had passed away. She had been weak for a few weeks following a heart attack and, although we were hoping she would hold on until we were able to get up north, she passed peacefully in her sleep on April 30th. Our plans were changed accordingly to take us directly north to Vermont, where she had been living for 7 years since Geoff’s Father passed in 2008, to be there when family arrived for her memorial service on May 9th.
Geoff’s two brothers, their wives, our sons and their wives and kids, and several of the cousins in Geoff’s family converged in Vermont for the service and a general get together over a few days. It was decided that Geoff’s Mother’s ashes would be kept by one of his brothers and then brought to Michigan in July for interment with his Father in Lansing, where we would also attend the Lynch-Fineis Family Reunion. It will be the second year in a row for us to go to the reunion, a yearly event since the 1940s.
Next, on to Boston for time with our kids and Grandkids.
