Happy Valentine's Day

Mickey and Minnie are wishing all of you a wonderful love-filled Valentine's Day. Did you enjoy Mel's effort at composing his blog? He was really nervous and put a lot of thought into what he wanted to say. I thought he did pretty good for his first time. It's true-he is a virgin blogger! It's been a long time since the words, Mel and virgin, were in the same sentence.

Anyway, I could not let the day go by without my version of our Valentine's Day. While it was a cool day in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, it wasn't as cool as yesterday. There was no wind and the sun was shining so it was quite beautiful. So while Mel de-camped us, I walked around our campgrounds to get a fair view of the place and to take a few photos. We were parked in the overflow lot with the air boat and gator wrangler employees, thus our fearful stay. But there was a nicer section of the place, we just weren't part of it.

Before we left the area, we had made plans with our niece, Susan, to meet for lunch. We chose a restaurant, Flannigan's, because it had a big parking lot. We secured our belongings. Then, we stopped for gas. We arrived a few minutes before Susan, so we sat looking at maps, planning our future travels. We saw Susan wheel in, in her Mom-mobile. As we opened the door, there came our beautiful niece, heading for the RV, bearing gifts. Our sweetheart brought us a minature white rose bush for the RV and a decorated notebook, titled "The Reivers on the Road: The Adventures of Nancy and Mel, 2005-2006," filled with copies of all of our blogs since we left Chicago. What a delight! This beautiful young woman, wife and mother of three sons, with an incredibly complicated schedule, took the time last night to print and assemble this gift for us. What a sweetie pie! That wasn't all, she picked up the check for lunch. Wow, what a girl!

From lunch, we started our trip north to Vero Beach. We had made reservations at the same campsite that we had stayed at on our previous visit. We've been like giddy children, thrilled that we are in a safe place.

We no sooner got ourselves situated in the campsite, then we were off to Cousin Marilyn's for a Valentine supper with Cal and Marion, too. Marilyn is Mel's godmother, so she outright spoiled him by serving spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread. He grinned through the whole meal so happy with his spaghetti. Actually, it was a beautifully prepared meal and very tasty.

While we were visiting, my cell phone went off and when I answered there were the voices of my little cherubs, Ryan and Daniel, seranading me with "I'm a teeny little Valentine for you." What a treat it was to hear from my little guys. Makes me miss them so much. It was a superb ending to an already joyous day.