Friday, June 5

We drove into Pensacola this morning to pick up our mail at American Home Base, our mail forwarding service and our legal address. We met Rebecca, the office manager, who helped us to establish Florida residency and register our vehicles in Florida. We met a few of the staff and it was nice to put faces with the names of people we have talked with when we called to have our mail forwarded.

We stopped at WMSC to stock up on groceries & had planned on eating lunch at the Subway in Wal-Mart. But the Subway had closed several days prior (we were told they were to put in a restaurant), so no lunch. We did see a Hardee’s on the the way back to I-10 and stopped there for lunch – it has been quite a while since we had a Hardee’s burger, so we enjoyed our lunch.

We skipped dinner tonight – we were still full from lunch. We went over to our friends’ house (Lance and Ann) this evening. It is their 50th wedding anniversary this weekend – the reason we came to the Pensacola area. We hadn’t seen them in 3 years – we stopped by here for a visit in 2006 when we started full-timing.

From Pensacola, FL

Lance and Ann had a houseful of guests - their 3 children were there and some of the grandchildren (more grandkids came in later during the evening). No one had eaten dinner yet and we were invited to eat with them, but we said “thanks” we were still full from lunch. Their daughter, Kathy, had prepared Ann’s lasagna recipe & did it ever smell good! That was all it took for us to change our minds about having dinner!! Note to self – get Ann’s recipe!

From Pensacola, FL

We stayed later than we planned because more of the grandchildren were driving in & we hadn’t seen them in several years. It was great to see everyone again – it reminded us that we had let too much time go between visits.