First Post of the New Year

I haven't been posting much lately. We have been staying in the same RV park for nearly a month. The time has been spent visiting family. Dianne's sister Karen and Karen's daughter, Laura and her family both live nearby. Laura was on Christmas break, so we all went to Busch Gardens amusement park near Tampa. It was a great opportunity to re-learn how to stand in line. We also visited with three of my cousins, Beverly and her husband, Steve: Carl, and his wife, Mary: and Altanette, who all live about twenty miles from here. We also plan to get together with some of the people we knew from the cruise.

I had mentioned getting sick while on the cruise. Just before New Years Dianne was feeling bad enough to visit a doctor. She was told she had "walking pneumonia", something that was common from cruise passengers. They prescribed an antibiotic that quickly knocked out the ailment. She was coughing so badly that I set out about 6:00 am for a nearby drug store for cough medicine. All is better.

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