Recipes for living, loving and laughing:Jo, Elliott, Cloey & Zoey's adventures

This has been a great adventure. We love Georgie, had great visits with family, enjoyed the beach and loved watching the girls have fun. In all we spent 26 nights in campgrounds.  The last day was spent at Jupiter Beach, which is dog-friendly and very nice.  Jupiter Beach There is an upscale "campground" close by, which we would consider going to next year.  Heading home we are supposed to hit rain but no snow. Elliott is nervous about winterizing and of course isn't totally comfortable driving. We decided that we would winterize at a campground in Richmond, Virginia. Yesterday was thankfully uneventful. We stopped at Wal-Mart where Elliott rested and I got groceries. We slept at a Wal-Mart at exit 57 in South Carolina, which was very convenient. Our campground stop was at KampsAmerica, which was actually in Ashland, Virginia not Richmond. This would have been a great place to chill if we had time. We woke up to snow but since ...

We are probably staying at the friendliest campground we have ever stayed at. In addition there are lots of activities, a beautiful pool and sauna, a dog run and nice sites. We had help backing in yesterday buy all in all it was easy but our levelers won't go down! The name is Woodsmoke Camping Resort. Today, Christmas eve day, we left the girls in their crate and went to Publix, the liquor store, and got a couple of movies. Our very nice neighbours said they didn't hear the girls. We walked around, the girls ran bit in the fenced in dog area and checked out dog beach, which some people love but we didn't and then went to fort Myers beach, which we went to often in past years. It was cool but the dogs are allowed on leash, the sand and water are beautiful. The only downside is the $2.00 an hour meter. If you have never seen a campground, this is the one at which we are staying. The dog run. 

You may know that the weather is unseasonably warm. Everyday we take the girls for a run on the beach, which we have to ourselves, we sit outside and Elliott takes a bike ride. There isn't much on the strip and we haven't ventured off it but we have cable so we watched the 30 year old virgin for the second time. We head to Fort Myers, where the beach is dog friendly, we know someone there and it is within striking distance of perhaps a family reunion in St Petersburg. I can't post pics because we are using so much data since the wi fi here is non existent. We think we should submit this one to some magazine??

It can take us two hours to decide where to eat so why wouldn't it take even longer to decide where to spend a few days. Hours later we settled at a campsite for $65 a night right on the beach. It's a good thing people write reviews because we almost stayed at Bulow until we found out they have fire ants. We had given them a credit card but when jo explained how sensitive she is to bugs she was given a refund. So it all worked out and as Jo says it was meant to be. We are on the beach side with very few people. Took a walk on the beach with the girls. Elliott set up their corral and it all seems OK. Friday December 20 Jo slept much better on the foam mattress we bought. We paid for two more nights since the beach is  beautiful and we have no neighbors. Luckily iron foot bar, which is part of Flagler by the Sea, sees as much business as the higher priced real estate here. After Elliott took the girls for a walk we all took a nice walk on the beach, which is made up of finely g...