More Fun with Dick and Jane....

We never made it to the beach. En route on Wednesday, the car started making unGodly sounds and we had to pull over and get towed home. (One loaner car and three days later we got it back. Lucas Dodge admits it may have been a little their fault that the caliper fell off, since they serviced the car recently....)

We are still dancing up a storm at Prospectors with Ganine, Lisa, and a growing cadre of newbies. How fun!

The NJREA Fall Luncheon was held at a very impressive Hamilton Fire House. The highlight of the meeting was hearing about the new Health Benefits Commission and upcoming changes (for the better.........) I picked up Conni and Suzanne drove us (and Judi) up. Too bad I have to miss next week's BCREA luncheon/meeting, but CA will be fun too!

I enjoyed working with the PTA folks today, helping to set up for the Eastampton Schools Book Fair. I'm helping out Tuesday morning, too.

To the Beach!

It is almost October, but the temperature is heading to 87 degrees today, so we are heading to the beach! How fun to be retired!!!!

Just to catch up a bit....Sunday was our brunch with the brunch group...but we were the only ones who showed up at Prospectors at 11. !!!! It seems the brunch was cancelled, but everybody thought someone else was notifying us, so we never got The Word. We felt quite out of the loop, but had a good time anyway. Better luck next time!

I went back and danced later. It was lots of fun! Joe and Ganine and I practiced "Waltz Across Texas" in the Prospectors parking lot after Sugarfootin' Sunday was over. It was so much fun!

Last night I went to a PartyLite(candles) shindig at Kim Hummell's house in Burlington. I was there under kind of false pretenses (but I told her!). I really just wanted to see her and the girls. Oh, my God! They are soooo adorable and beautiful! I brought an album of old photos and they were amazed to see their mom, poppop, nanny, Aunt Margie, Aunt Patti and all (and McKenzie, too, of course!)

I finally talked to Jennifer about the upcoming trip and she is going to be our trip planner. (We love Jennifer!) We love Sue, too, and I know she is huge on the agenda!!!

Okay.....off to Seaside! Hasta luego!

Week-end fun (Sat. night report)

Friday, Tom and I went golfing. We had a lot of fun with another twosome, Brian and Jason. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed it to the fullest!

We rested briefly, and then went to Prospectors. Ganine and Lisa, our new protegee/friends were there and we did a lot of dancing. We stopped at the new dancing place on the way home and didn't leave until closing time!

Today I worked the Eastampton Fun Day event (I covered the frog jump!) and took a lot of photos. The Township did a great job, as usual. It rained a few times, but it didn't stop us from having fun, and mostly it was sunny.

We did the dual dancing scene again tonight. The new place has a really nice new dance floor!

Tomorrow is brunch with the crew and Sugarfootin Sunday.

Monday night is a basket party at Kim's and Thursday is the NJEA Retirees Fall Luncheon meeting.

I want to go to school, too, and pick up all the old photo albums I left there. I'm thinking I'll use them for some sort of project...at the very least a web page dedicated to the teaching years....

I am so glad the stock market went back up!!! Now let it stay there....getting higher would be great too! :-)

Making new friends and reuniting with old

I have been having a lot of fun since last I wrote!

Don't expect daily blogging for two reasons. One, it would be boring for you, the reader, and two it would be like a mandatory assignment for me, and I don't do that anymore! LOL

I've seen two country artists in concert-Luke at Michael's and Steve Holy at Prospectors. It is always a treat to see and hear these rising singers up close and personal!


Prospectors was the scene for meeting some new friends and up and coming dancers,
Ganine, Lisa, and former student, now teacher, Christie
and her colleagues. We are all meeting up again tomorrow for some lessons and fun at the club.








It was a great week-end because George and Doreen drove down to visit and party with us there too!

Tom and I played golf in beautiful weather a couple of times and are probably going out again tomorrow too. (How wonderful to finally be able to enjoy the great outside anytime I want!)

I went to ABCO today to deal with the new Time Share loan stuff and bumped into Jean Zensen. What a coincidence. She is going to be at the NJREA Lunch next week too.

Ok...see what I mean about boring (well, for you, not me!) Sorry! Back to pogo! LOL

First Day of School 2007

Tuesday was the first day of school and I went on my Second Annual First Day of School Trip to Seaside.
It was a beautiful day and I enjoyed both it and the freedom of retirement that allowed me to be there.

Soon after I got home, I headed out to the Verizonwireless store for my second phone lesson. I didn't really learn too much new, but I met a new friend, Diane.

From there, I bravely drove into Philadelphia and found Michael's Cafe, where Luke was playing, and All My Friends Say Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! ($12 and a free CD, signed! whoohoo!)

Big party for Ann!

We had such a great time at Gina's house and the party she threw for her mom, Ann!
It was quite a reunion for some of us who haven't been in touch for over 20 years.
It was a huge photo op. My take on the photos are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/rosallee/AnnS70thBirthdayParty

Delta is ready when you are?

Poor Tim! As if the weather delayed flights from Memphis to us in Myrtle Beach weren't enough, the way home was (still is!) even worse. His 5 p.m. flight to Atlanta was delayed so much, he not only missed the first scheduled connecting flight, but the one two and a half hours later, too. Now it appears he is confirmed on a flight tomorrow morning at 10: 37 a.m. I have no idea if they put him up somewhere, or where. Meanwhile Linda and some friends drove the 3 hours to Memphis to pick him up ....I don't know what happened to them either. :-(

Meanwhile, the good news is....we met another online friend in person. Rinnytintinny of megalottso fame lives in Myrtle Beach and she came to the airport to check us out. (Safe, public place in case we were serial killers...but I think we passed the muster!) We really liked her, and daughter Emily too!

We added a day to our vacation here in Myrtle Beach and should be heading out for home tomorrow. We had a lot of fun!