Arizon

My six weeks in Az sure went by fast! The weather was chilly most of the time&rainy. I had to buy some sweat shirts & long sleeved blouses as I only had summer clothes there.Had sent them down with Pat & pudge so I did not have to bother with baggage on the plane.. We went to some estate sales--Pat was looking for furniture & to a big flea market.Went to a casino once but I did not like their 5cent machines( I play the 1cent or 2cent ones here)We went to Bingo one night at the community center. I do not care for that1Also they had a Minn night there-a good chicken dinner--Pat had Tshirts for us that had Minn on them-Mostly hockey shirts. Every morning the mourning doves would be cooing-there were lots of them. Even tho it was cool it was better than Minn --no snow or ice & green grass outside. It was fun watching the golfers right out the back.
Janet & Linda were here this past weekend We went to a concert at St Andrews church which was great.On Sun we went to Como Park to see the flowers which were beautiful. I had not been out there since Hans & Rachels wedding. The snow is melting fast which is great but we will probably get at least one Mar snow storm but we know it will not last long.

Christmas

After Christmas

Had a great Christmas --Everyone was here except Shannon who spent it with her Mom & Grandma. It was her 35th birthday also.Had a good time with our get together with the nieces & got some really good cookies with the cookie exchange!!I sent my clothes for Az with Pat & pudge so all I have to take when I go is a carry on.I am going on the 18th of Jan & return on Mar 1st.Now I am going to try to post some pix. Not to good at this yet!! Could not figure ho w to do the pix yet Will keep trying!!

Pretty table by Martha Stewart (Pat Soderberg) Zoie- Pat's Little neighbor girl. She loves Pat & wants to go with her all the time She is four & is such a good girl. She ate a little bit with us & then had to go home for her dinner at 6pm

Matt & Amber- his fiancee

news about cruise

Got back from the cruise late Sun. night-11:30pm---I was really tired as I had gotten up at 7am-Had a little nap at the airport & on the plane.The cruise was really great BUT I had forgotten how hot it gets in the Carribbean & with the humidity it was really bad for me. We only got off the ship 3 x .We went to San Juan,Puerto Rico,St. Thomas USVI,Antigua,TortolaBVI & Nassau,Bahamas. We went to a beautiful beach in St Thomas but I did not go in the water-to hard to walk in the sand but a nice breeze so it was good.We shopped in Antigua& I got a couple of bright flowered shirts. Then we took a tour in Tortola up the mountains with wonderful views. But the hairpin turns were a little much!!Then we took a city tour ro Nassau & that was the longest two hours of my life!!It was HOT& Humid & the tour cab was not air conditioned & the tour was boring.I was so glad to get out of there.My clothes were just wet from sweat.The food was great & the shows were really good-we went to the stage show every night after dinner.& there was a casino that we stopped at every day!!And we met some really nice people. It is raining & dreary out today-I am about to take a nap as soon as I get done with this letter.

news from Willernie

I Haven't blogged for awhile but when every day is the about the same &no news it is hard to think of something to write about.I always read everyones blogs every day & now facebook.It is so much more fun to read than to write!!
I did write an email about taking a cruise in Oct. This will be my 5th one--I really like those cruises!! Two have beento the Carribean(Western &Eastern) Panama Canal & Alaska. This one is also a Carribean but different ports of call.Nassau,Bahamas-& british Virgin Islands,St Thomas USVI & Puerto Rico.
Wed. I am going to Battle Lake MN-Not far from Fergus Falls -to Maxine & Alan Johnson's house for our yearly get together with Eleanor & Maxine.Alan is on oxygen & can't drive a long ways so we are going to their house. MaryBeth is going with me as I would not drive that far by myself. I do not drive very far any more--to grocery store,bank, & mall which is about 5or 6 miles from me. I can tell that my reflexes are not what they used to be!!
I have not sewed anything for a long time but now I am going to make two blouses for the cruise.one black & one print. I was looking at pix of the other cruises & noticed that I was wearing the same dressup blouse on 3 of them so decided it was time to make a new one!!.
Yesterday was cool & rainy so I made a big kettle of vegetable soup.It really hit the spot.
Oct 3rd we (Donna Janet Pat Diane & Dave ) are going to Scandia Mn.for a Swedish folk dress show.Scandia is a little north of Stillwater& was settled by Swedes.They have a museum there & several buildings(log) showing how the pioneers lived. This is also the area that the series of books--The Immigrants #1 & then 3 more but I can't remember the names of the others But they were really good books.Have any of you read them?They are fiction but really tell about the hardships of the pioneers.