Sunshine and raindrops! It's warm either way! I think a person can live here without a single coat!

This morning Diane and I did a walking tour of the community. I know where the camper will be parked and where the dog park is that I can play frisbe with Shiloh at this fall! I also got to meet a few more people and their dogs here!

Jack has safely returned to Klamath Falls and was joyfully greeted by our two fur kids.

I have been talking about looking for work and my willingness to do any kind of job... so when I got to Vero Beach Sis let me know that she had something for me. There was an Easter Weekend Breakfast at the community center and an Easter Bunny was needed. Being one of the newest residents I was asked if I would be willing.....

It was fun to be a bunny for a little bit.

Hopping around the club house to distribute candies and get pictures taken was equal to an hour workout in a sauna! The kids, young and old, seemed to enjoy my antics.

My First Florida Weather Watch

It's 11 am - check out time at the Holiday Inn Select near the Orlando International Airport and the TV screens in the lobby are repeating Tornado Warnings over and over with doppler screens showing the storm front as it is moving across the state. Currently the thunder, rain and winds are hitting this area but the 'high wind cell' is behind that and coming this way. Hmmm a whole bunch of new terminalogy to learn and dechipher!

The advisory is to stay in and do not drive if you do not have to so I believe I will have breakfast here at the Holiday Inn and watch the screens a bit longer. The storm warning extends to Melbourne Beach... about half way to Vero Beach... my destination.

Jack flew out at 6 am this morning and should be in Portland, Oregon in a few more hours. Mike will pick him up there and then he'll be on his way across the state to our home. He may be dealing with snow and ice issues! Every area has it's "issues"!

Yesterday we spent a great day at the Kennedy Space Center before checking in to the Holiday Inn. Jack was asleep almost immediately! The Shuttle Experience was interesting but not as good as the space shuttle ride Diane and I did at Disney World a few years ago. Touching a real moon rock was cool, seeing the Land Rover and the emmensity of the rockets was awe inspiring.

I planned to return today and see the IMAX shows and the Hall of Fame but think that will have to keep for another day. Since I got the tickets signed I can go back within the next 7 days. Maybe Diane and I will drive up one day. It's only an hour away.

Thunder is rolling and lightening striking! I think I'll go eat something! Comfort food!

And of all times my cell phone battery has run out! Darn!

Vero Beach Vacation is well underway! We've been here since Wednesday the 8th and have managed to do a FEW things! Wednesday it's self was mostly jet lag day but Keith, Diane and I did make it to the Wednesday night dinner, gospel music hour that evening.

Thursday Jack and I took a driving tour of Hwy 1A1 from the Causeway Bridge (SR 60) to Fort Pierce. We stopped at the local dive shop, Deep 6, first and discussed local beach dive sites and how to tell if it's a good dive day off the Vero Beach sites. Then went and scoped out Pepper State Park where the lobster are enormous. Lobster season ended in March so we will have to wait until our return in the fall months to get to go after those big boys! When we returned home Diane, Jack and I took a refreshing swim in the pool and then had a great BBQ chicken dinner.

Friday was scuba dive day! We went out on the Deep Obsession with Jim Abernathy's Scuba Adventures for a two-tank dive off West Palm Beach. It was everything advertised. Lots of sealife, including a sea turtle, a romoria companion for Jack, and several moray eels The seas were to big for my sea bands to compete with and Jack and I were both very sea sick. The currents worked against us and we had to work hard to stay with the reef along the Flower Garden Reef so much so Jack was exhusted after the 1st dive and did not do the second one. I would have skipped the second one but I was to sick to stay on the boat - I had to get back in the water to get any relief. The crew was great and got me rigged up for the second dive and then got be launched into the water. At 55 feet deep I was fine! I didn't take the camera on the second dive, which was at the Breakers Reef - named after the famous West Palm Beach Breakers Hotel that the reef is directly infront of. I wasn't feeling up to finding it, so there are no pictures of the hawksbeak turtle that swam through our school of divers or the batfish that came up out of the sand and "flew" away. While I was diving Jack got a really good start on his suntan.

We were a little done when we got off the boat so we rescheduled getting together with the Tews until Saturday! Here's me after a rough day at sea!I'll post more later!