Dade City, Florida

It has been so nice being in Florida and only hearing about the snow and cold weather in other places.  We have been taking full advantage of our campground...swimming and golfing everyday!  What a life!  On Thursday we drove Bryce and Jake into Orlando so they could play Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Golf Course on Friday.  Jake's birthday is this month and for his 12th birthday he wanted to play Bay Hill.  He ended up writing a letter to Arnold Palmer asking him if he could play with him.  His assistant wrote Jake back and said that he doesn't play with people, but if he was at the resort when Jake was there, she would arrange a meeting for them.  Well we told them they were coming on Friday, but they said he only had about 15 minutes to meet Jake on the following Tuesday, so of course we said yes!  Anyway, the boys golfed on Friday, and as they were going out to hit balls, they ran into Mr. Palmer.  Then the girl at the desk asked if they wanted to go upstairs and meet him...WOW!  So they did.  They got autographed hats, pictures, and a flag from the greens.  Then they found out he was teeing off a couple groups before them, and his caddy said that if they wanted to they could go hit balls right by the roped off section, since that is where Mr. Palmer hits.  So they did and they watched him and he even watched Jake hit some balls, needless to say they were ecstatic!  Bryce said they treated Jake like royalty when they knew he was there for his birthday. They gave them a room over looking the 9th hole.  He received all kinds of pins to put on his hat.   Everyone was very gracious.  While they were gone Rees, Trent, and I swam, played games, and watched movies.
On Saturday when we picked up Bryce and Jake we hung around Downtown Disney.  We gave our kids the choice of Disney World or going to Cabo San Lucas Mexico again, with my mom...they chose to go to Mexico, but we did tell them we would do Disney World some other time.  We will be headed there for a week in February!