August 2015 Dr's Appointments and More

This month has been a rash of Dr's appointments and more.

We spent a week away from Holiday Shores and headed for Carsonville, MI.

While we were there we drove to Port Huron to check out the food at the Culinary Institute of Michigan (CIM) and get a tour of their facility.

We also drove out to Davison, MI to check out some old cars and hear my 

cousin sing with the band.

These pictures are of a hot air balloon that was being dried at holiday shores.

We were also invited to a tail gate and JV football game.

I really miss sports photography.

We are currently setting at Allied Recreational Group in Decatur, IN.  We are waiting to have the hydraulic lines to the jacks replaced.  Not sure how long it will take.

Our travel plan is Dayton, OH to stay at Wright Patterson

Frankfort, KY to visit Buffalo Trace

Hershey, PA to visit some people that Bill did Adopt-A-Ship with

Washington, D.C. and then making our way to Florida.

Hopefully we will some of you during our travels.

July 2015 Austin, TX to Florida

 July was a very busy month
On July 13th Nate dropped Athena and Ember at Bishop Airport to fly to Austin, TX and the journey to began.  Nate drove the U-Hall while Copper and I drove Nate's Dodge RAM. The weather was great except the one down pour that we drove through.  Bill reminded me to take the walkie talkies and that made communication between vehicles so much better. We arrived early three days latter and were able to get the truck unloaded without incident, kind of. 

On the 18th Andrea picked me up at Nate and Athena's and took me to the airport in Austin where I flew to Florida to help my mom after a bad reaction to a new medication she was taking.  Glad to report she is doing much better.  I left Tampa and flew home on the 29th only to turn around on the 31st and fly, with Bill back to Orlando for the American Culinary Convention.  

So that was my month.  Now I bet  you would like to see some pictures!

View from our room

Flint/Saginaw Valley's newest Academy of Chefs Member
Mark Handy with his wife Angie

Dinner Table

I wish I could list what we had, but I can't find the menu we brought home.

Chef Mark Handy CEC, AAC

And now for some food pictures

These pictures are from the food show, competitions and meals we ate.  

It was all good!!

And the final meal 

The Chef of the Year

And now that you are all in a food coma, here are the final food pictures

And a special thanks to Jill Plumer 

who ran us all over Orlando and then drove us to 

CafeTu Tu Tango

I didn't get any pictures of the 12 tapas plates we all shared but I did get pictures of the restaurant.

Love this bench and table

Well that was our July.  Never a dull moment in this adventure.  Now to keep everyone up to date, I am off to update our August adventures.