Well Sunday was another awesome day spent with family and friends at our local church, Bridgepoint. Nancy and I volunteer a couple times a month as greeters, ushers and offering collectors. We had a packed house and I gave out lots of hugs and handshakes. We always meet new folks each week and Pastor Tim had an awesome message on generosity. If your interested check out the message at Bridgepoint Church in St. Petersburg as its archived on Google. We rode with the Botbyl's our good friends and neighbors and afterwards had a delicious lunch at Applebees in Largo.
Well the morning started with my usual roll out around 6'ish. We still had overnight guests; niece Arianne and Errol from the Miami area so I did my morning routines; posted this ramble while in the kitchen and spent a few quiet moments with my Creator. They were still sleeping when I finished so I headed out to hand water the gardens and then got ready for church as we had to leave at 9:15. They emerged and decided to spent some time with GG before heading south later in the day. It's about a 4 hour drive or so as they are north of the big city but they both teach in the city of Miami. Miami was erupting with a festive spirit as the dictator Fidel Castro had died a couple days ago. He was a brutal Communist dictator who held the Cuban people hostage for over 50 years. The Cuban society was so excited for his demise there was dancing in the streets of the little Havana area in Miami.
After church we headed to Applebees for a delicious lunch and then home where I spent the afternoon reading and watching football. The Bucs played a very good team from Seattle and beat them to everyone's surprise as they were leading their division. Bobby and Katie were in attendance as well along with some of her family and the day was just magnificent weather wise. Nancy took off shopping and then made a stop at GG's getting home in the late afternoon. We skipped supper after the large noon meal and I popped some corn the old fashion way. She was on the Internet while I read and watched NFL football until bed time around 10'ish for me.
We had a grand visit with two of our nieces Erica and her 9 kiddos and Arianne who is still trying to have her first over the holiday. There was way too much delicious eating and I'm afraid to get on the scales this morning. It's back to our weekly routines until the Christmas holiday of baking, eating and family get together's. I did manage to stay away from the taters, desserts and breads except for the stuffing's, oh well, LATER
