Monday Morning in Florida and a few pics from our Western Trip

Well Sunday was a great day that ended on a sour note as Nancy was up most of the evening and night with a stomach bug or food poisoning. She is still peaked as I write this ramble.

The morning started out fine on Sunday and we had decided to visit First Baptist of Riverview where Bobby now is the worship pastor and leader. Nancy has been watching the podcast of the sermons by Jeff Knight for the past several weeks and I too have listened to his messages. He is a wonderful speaker and his messages are to the core with no sugar coating but strictly from the Word. It's too bad he is such a great distance as we both like him and the venue. We got back around 1:30 and went to work on the family dinner we were serving at 5 PM as Tyler had a meeting at his church at 6 and this was another combined birthday supper for GG and him.

I tuned into the hapless Bucs who play lights out one week and then this week it was horrible to watch. They definitely need a place kicker as he left 10 points on the field with his missed kicks. I vacuumed, snapped beans and helped as much as possible with the preparation. Nancy had 2 huge chickens in the oven roasting along with carrots, salad and crusty bread. There was carrot cake for dessert.

Arianne came up from Miami by herself and Betsy and Braden came along with Bobby's new friend Katie. We had a house full with all 5 grand kiddos there as well. It was our typical family supper and the eatin' was superb as usual. All except for Nancy becoming ill a couple hours after everyone left left around 7'ish.

I promised to share some pics from our western trip as Tyler has shown me how to download our photos onto this new laptop, bear with me as I'm still trying to learn the Apple methods; these pics start with a shot of the rocks around Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe, the gals in Napa and then some winery pics at the Mondalvi Estate in the Napa Valley area where some tasting occurred.

The second group of photos are from the western side of Calif. as we traveled south towards the Bay Area. We came upon the Sonoma Raceway. Notice how brown and barren the hills are, then a few shots of the Golden Gate and cliffs surrounding it as well as the steepness of a typical city street in San Francisco. I will publish more on a different post.