So far

Dad, Teresa and the dogs arrived right around 5 on Tuesday afternoon.  Their arrival was delayed by dad’s drowsiness, he actually stopped at a rest stop and took a nap on a bench.  It was no big deal to me since I had spent the majority of the day working on the SSR radio upgrade which will be receiving it’s own dedicated blog entry at some point.    Let’s just say it has been as challenging as I expected. For now if you would like to see the pictures of the install you can see them here.

The dogs took next to no time to become re-acclimated, they immediately  took off running around the yard, it was very cute.  Clara also wasted no time getting re-acclimated with our pond, jumping into it within the first 10 minutes.

Tuesday evening Ali made nice salads and we reheated some of the rice pilaf and sweet potato patties that she also made a couple days ago.

Yesterday I again spent a considerable amount of time out in the garage with the SSR with my dad offering an assist during certain points of the install.  We broke it up with a trip out in the party van with all four dogs.  We had lunch at Panera and I needed to stop at Best Buy to buy another radio mounting kit after we accidentally snapped a bracket on the old kit via pushing on the dash too hard.

Teresa bought food to make a really nice meal that we enjoyed out on the lanai last night after Ali got home from track practice.

Today dad and I will be driving over to Fort Lauderdale to pick up Patrick and his girlfriend Maureen.  He is flying in from Pittsburgh.  Once they get here we will start doing more sight seeing and tourist stuff.