This week we continued spending time with our daughter and her family. It is super being able to spend time with all of them 4 to 5 times each week. We do not do anything special just spend 3 or 4 hours together in the evening. We are slowly getting to know the grandchildren better and learning their routines, as well as they are getting to know us! It is a slow process but well worth the effort.

We spent Sunday at their home to watch the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl, for those of you not from the US, is our professional football teams' championship game. This is the "real" football not soccer! A little US bias here. We had a lovely group of people come to watch the game. Michael's parents and brother came over and my best friend of all times, Shalene and her sister all were there. Everyone pitched in and brought food so a good time with good eats was had by all. We all had a "super" time getting caught up on each other's lives.

Shalene was in Tucson for family business with her sister. I have known Shalene since we were 15 years old! That is longer than my husband of 45 years!!! We have remained in contact and remained good friends through marriage (she was my bridesmaid), children, raising them, marriages (of children) and now grandchildren!!! Boy, do I love her! She is so special! When we see each other or call it is like we just saw each other yesterday. It is awesome! The amazing thing is there were times when we did not see each other for 5 to 10 years and maybe only called once a year but our friendship continued on - now that is so great! She and her husband, also David, came to visit us in Tahiti. It was an awesome time and we Never stopped talking the two weeks they were with us! We wrote about them in the blog so if you are interested you can look up our fun time! Shalene's sister Danene also came and it was great seeing her all grown up. I last saw her when she was 14 years old! She is 4 years younger than Shalene and she would spend time with us when I would be at her house. Even though I knew what went on in her life (from Shalene) it was fun seeing her and getting to know her in person. If you have a friend like Shalene, call or write them and let them know you love them, friends like her are to be cherished and are so rare!

The other exciting thing we did this week was go to a recreational vehicle show (from now on known as RV). Why, you say is this exciting? Well.... I have always turned my nose up at RV's and was quite closed minded about them but I saw an ad about this show and how large it was. For those of you who do not know, the first step that we took to go cruising was going to a boat show!! We all know how that ended up!! I decided that if Dave was interested, we should go to the show and I should not ignorantly just say no to RVing! I should first learn about them and see what is available. Oh Boy! Are we glad that we did just that. It is amazing how lovely they are and not as gas guzzling as we thought. Like I said at the boat show... "I could live in one of these! We shall see but this has opened up another really nice option for us when we stop cruising! So until we speak again....