We spent much of the last week at Franklin preparing for the coming holidays. After receiving our first batch of mail on Monday and getting it all sorted out—no Christmas cards yet—we went into Ft. Myers on Tuesday to finish our Christmas shopping for the grandchildren. We roamed all over Toys R’ Us trying to find the perfect gifts. We then had lunch at Sweet Tomatoes. Gierharts had introduced us to this restaurant and it is one of our favorite places to eat in town.
Our 8-pound turkey JUST fit in the convection oven on Thursday and it was delicious and provided lots of left-overs. I spent the day finishing a Christmas stocking and starting to address our Christmas cards and, of course, we watched some football. We thought longingly of all of our family and talked to many of them on the telephone. We truly have much to be thankful for.
On Saturday, we made our final shopping expedition to Camping World, Bass Pro Shop and Costco before driving down to the Keys on Monday. I especially enjoyed seeing all the children enjoying the Christmas activities at Bass Pro Shop.
We always enjoy this island campground and the only drawback is that there are no individual sewers at the sites. Hank’s favorite task, while here, is emptying our portable tank at the dump station. We saw many turtles and the manatees continued to swirl around the waters beside our coach on a daily basis. Tomorrow, we will set off for our drive down to the Keys.
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