Eat, Drink and be Merry...Christmas Holidays 2015

With record high temperatures during the Florida Christmas break in 2015, bicycling on the beach is the order of the day (with helmets on, of course) …

… and with adult supervision

Just as in the “old days” 30 years ago, the children were banished to their own table for Christmas dinner (delayed 3 days to allow everyone to arrive in New Smyrna Beach) …

… while the adults dined on the main table!

Despite the warmth and the sunshine, the “snow birds” were slow to arrive in Florida this year. That left the beach free to “dig a hole to China”.
Even the passing of speed walkers and joggers on the beach could not disturb the children’s concentration on digging in the sand.

A sunny lunch at JB's fish camp

With the grandkids, parents, grandparents and bicycles, the condo got crowded.
The 8 pound “Christmas ham” lasted longer than the family could stay in Florida. Grandma and Grandpa eventually finished it off the following week.

With Ella mugging for the camera, a crowded couch gave Tom a place to “hide”…
… but, sometimes, we could catch him unaware

Once again, “New Year's” came early at 9 pm….
… but Joshua wasn’t happy not to be allowed to stay up until the real New Years and had to be tickled to produce a smile.



On New Years Day, the north winds finally arrived. Tom got out his “space shuttle” kite from the Kennedy Space Centre and ran into the wind and back along the deserted beach faster than grandpa could keep up.

Now, where was that hole to China? We still have a day to get there before we fly home to Canada!

Comments

Megan said…
Great photos! Thanks for posting.
January 9, 2016 at 12:33 p.m.
Megan said…
Tom's comments:
It wasn't a hole to China, it was a sand city!
I learned about flying a kite: if you go into the wind, you get more lift.
About going away from the wind and into the wind: if you go into the wind, you'd better run. If you go away from the wind, you'd better walk, but the kite will start going down, so turn around and go into the wind.
January 12, 2016 at 7:36 p.m.
The Old and the Restless said…
Correction noted!

I shall check this out the next time we fly a kite.
January 12, 2016 at 10:06 p.m.
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