A Merry Mixture

Spring has arrived to our RV thanks to Stephanie, Ebony and Bob
The set of Nunsense

The entrance to the theatre - note the pool and the fire in the pool
February 5th - Sunday 80 degrees - Beautiful day

Lou and I were up early and returned to church for the second time. The church we chose was Mayport Naval Station Chapel by the Sea. Last Sunday the service was wonderful and the Chaplain spoke on Praising the Lord. The reason he chose the topic for his sermon was he was upset by a note he had read on someone's wall on "facebook" where someone had posted there was too much praise and not enough preaching and he said he disagreed with the statement and he has spent two Sunday making his "case" known and indeed he did. Chaplain Cayangyang reminded us of our Pastor Keith at home. He used his microphone over his ear and came to the middle of the platform and stated his points with scripture from Psalms 111 and 147 along with many others where they begin with Praise the Lord and how we are instructed to Praise the Lord. I don't think there could have been a person attending either worship service that exited the sanctuary without knowing why we Praise the Lord at all times. Great messages. With many different denominations attending these services, we sang praises, gospel and traditional songs.

With all of the activities leading up to Lent, it makes me really miss my home church and the special Lenten services. Hopefully, we can connect with a church on our next stay.

Friday night the Bahrs and us went to a Alhambra Dinner Theatre which is located in Jacksonville, FL. We had a four course dinner, starting with warm goat cheese and tomato pie, fire roasted sausage with white bean hummus, marinated tomatoes, olives and baguette. For the second course I chose a wedge salad with gorgonzola cheese, candied walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. The third course I chose Chicken Cordon Blue, Creamy polenta and green beans and the fourth course was dessert and I chose Chocolate Mousse tartlet with hazelnut crust. Note: I couldn't find the crust and made a remark to Steve and he asked and they checked with the kitchen and were told they ran out of hazelnuts and therefore brought a different dessert, which was a fresh pear tar tatin, which Lou ate!!

The play was hilarious. All of us had seen it before with the exception of Lou and he did enjoy it. He had never been to a dinner theatre before, so he found it all very interesting and thinks we should do this again.

We came back to our RV for a glass of wine after we returned home and while we were talking, I remembered the Paper White Narcissus that Stephanie had given us for Christmas, I had planted them on the 19th of January and placed them under our bed as instructed. Lou went in to retrieve them and they were more then ready to greet the world. By the next morning, they were already turning green. I placed them in the front of the RV, by my desk and they are all budded, soon we will have blooms. That was a very thoughtful gift and one we will enjoy watching.

Today we drove back to Georgia to have lunch with our friends that we winter with at Key West, FL. They were late leaving PA this year and had problems with their car in tow and need to have a new transmission put in their car. They are stranded at King's Bay, GA so we spent a nice afternoon with them and took lunch and enjoyed a nice picnic in the 80 degree weather.

Yesterday and today we had nice phone calls from our kids and even had a lovely phone call from my granddaughter which was special treat. It is always good to hear news from home.

Tomorrow is our day to go the the Zoo and I am excited about that. It looks like we may have to leave here on Thursday, and we are not sure where we are going. We had wanted to go to Disney; however, when I called for reservations at Fort Wilderness they are booked solid through February and March. Boo-Hoo