Well yesterday Barbara and I went to Ormond Beach to visit with her cousin Marge and Marge’s husband Joe. We had a very nice lunch and then Marge and Joe took us to see some sites. Our first stop was Memorial Gardens Park. They have lovely walks through a small park with many types of Palms and flowers. They also have two turtle ponds. The first one we came across there where many turtles sitting on the rocks sunning themselves and what we believe was a Snowy Egret. In the second pool that had a sculpture of two peacocks there where more turtles sunning themselves, some of the smaller turtles where sitting on top of the bigger turtles. These turtles are not native to Florida but come from Long Island New York; they are an invasive species that they have tried to get rid of without much success. We went down the road to The Casements the Florida home of John D. Rockefeller. He bought this house after he was in his 70’s and only lived in it for 20 some odd years. We went on the tour and learned a lot about his life in Florida. After that they took us to the Bicentennial Park where Joe and I walked to the river on a nature path and then back to the ocean side where we found the ladies sitting and talking. The walk was only ¼ mile long so total Joe and I walked ½ mile. It was very interesting there was a point in the walk where you could see the change in the vegetation from small trees and bushes to tall pines and oaks see pictures. We then went back to Marge and Joe’s for a lovely chicken dinner. We left there after more talking and got home (to the trailer) around 9:30PM.
Today we got one step closer to deciding to buy a place in the park. We went to the people of the trailer we looked at earlier and asked a bunch of questions, and took a real careful look around for leaks and other things. Then we went to the park office and asked more questions of the manager. We also got a copy of the rules and a resident application. We will need to fill it out and turn it in and pay $50.00 for a background check. I think we might finalize this by early next week, one way or the other.
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