Sunday Morning

Well Saturday found us heading over to Brandon to watch grandson Gabe to play baseball while son Bobby managed the team. They played great but lost at the end. The weather was perfect with just enough of a dry breeze to keep you comfortable but by late evening the humidity had returned. We were truck shopping either as a lease or outright purchase so we stopped at the largest Ford dealer in Tampa and wow what a place with salesmen everywhere and hundreds of new vehicles but no new Ford trucks to meet what we were looking for. One of our main goals was to have the front seat split so we could seat 6 adults, well all of the trucks were bucket seats so they decided we could order one. They made an offer on our truck which I thought was decent and fair and almost a third more than the big dealer in Tampa. So hopefully we will be driving our new truck when we leave on Wednesday.

We decided to go by where we had previously purchased two new trucks in the past and we had a salesman on line send a picture of what we wanted with a price. The more we thought about the seat we wanted we thought it best to make sure this was the seat that he had in the truck. So we stopped only to check out the truck as we were running short on time. We had company coming for a huge family dinner.

Well this truck had the seat we wanted and we were puzzled about the huge place in Tampa not having a truck with this front seat, anyhow we test drive the truck and loved it and they gave more than we thought for our truck so we made a deal. I will pick it up on Monday as they will install a bed liner and a roll up Tonneau cargo and detail it for us. Anyhow what a day.

We got back around 4:30 and since we had the house ready from the day before with lots of food prep. Our company arrived within the next half hour and we had three flank steaks marinating, oven taters, fresh garden carrots and salad, baked spinach casserole, crusty bread and two cake desserts and a little vino before hand. We had 11 adults and 5 kiddos so the house was full until after 10'ish. The Ross kiddos were going home with Bobby except for Eliza so they all got baths before leaving. After the cleanup which I was in charge of we sat around and talked until late in the evening.

This morning I'm up at 5:30 as I head out on my bike to the Rec. to help with the first run through for Bridgepoint Church. I'm basically a greeter but will help with the set up as well. Time to go, LATER