After a three-hour nap this afternoon, the kids and I walked along the shore – stepping carefully to avoid the numerous shell fragments. We watched a Disney Cruise depart and then returned to our motel for a dinner of peanut butter and crackers. We had flown from Denver to Orlando on Thursday, taking a taxi to Cocoa Beach, and will return this coming Thursday. We are visiting Wayne’s parents and sisters whom we haven’t seen in a few years. Today Anne, Leo, and Mary met us at a restaurant on the pier by our motel where we ate tasty, locally-caught seafood and watched the surfers out the window. Tomorrow we’ll visit a nature preserve.
“I’m so excited that we’re flying to Orlando!”
Ron Jon’s Surf Shop
Heh?
Awww
Probably not my most flattering portrait
Mary & Dagmar, the dachshund
Pelicans on the pier
Laurel thought these dirtier-looking pelicans a littler further down the pier looked like chimney sweeps. She sang, “Step in time! Step in time! Never need a reason, never need a rhyme!” (We recently watched Mary Poppins.)
Laurel has enjoyed going through Grandma & Grandpa’s extensive record collection and then actually listening to some of the records. Laurel had never before heard a record. Mary & Lynn said the records that Laurel liked (pictured) had all belonged to Wayne. So they have the same musical taste!
Lynn is recovering from a badly-broken leg.
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 
We have been to CoCoa beach many yeas ago twenty yaer or more. Are you going to the Space center Charlie would like it?
we are in show lo, AZ on the way to Phoenix for a week long Cowboy Action shoot.