Well I guess if you are too busy living life and then too tired to write about it it's not all that bad. We had a whirlwind week of Christmas in Atlanta. Starting with a couple of days alone with Mike and Elizabeth and getting reacquainted with Drew and Ollie.

It seems that Drew has taken a liking to buses lately, so when he saw our Big Bertha out in front of his house this was quite a treat. When he gets an opportunity to get into a real bus, he will wonder where the kitchen is. 

We went to the Christmas Eve service at their church then immediately to have dinner with Elizabeth's family. These people are living proof to the truth of Southern hospitality. They take you in and treat you just like family and, fortunately, they are a family which likes each other. Dinner was magnificent and it was followed up with Christmas carolling around the tree. That is my kind of a Hallmark Christmas.

On Christmas day the rest of the family arrived. The threat of flight cancellations came not from Wisconsin or Minnesota but from Atlanta where flights were being cancelled 24 hours in advance because of an expected ice storm. Fortunately the ice turned out to be a significant snow fall giving them the first white Christmas in 128 years and allowing the flights to arrive. I suppose some might credit all of us Nannooks from the north for bringing it.

So the day after Christmas we were all fifteen together hanging out at Mike's. What fun.

The day after Christmas some of us went to the Georgia aquarium. Although we had been there before and Aquariums are low on my list of favorite places, it is awesome to experience these natural wonders through the eyes of the children. We returned to the hotel where we were met by the rest of the clan for a good swim. The kids and babies were all such fun in the pool. Unfortunately I was too busy playing  to take pictures. Perhaps I will be able to steal a few from Elizabeth.

The one job I gave to the parents of all these children was to get me a picture of the 7 grandchildren together. I didn't care if they were smiling, crying, or even sleeping. They did a pretty good job. Then we were also able to snap a few of all the old kids together while they were all taking pictures of the kids.

 

Everyone left town on Wednesday after Christmas, and God bless Mike and Elizabeth for making sure everyone got to where they needed to be on time.

We drove straight to Lakeland Florida where we are now to rest and recuperate in the sunshine and on the golf course.