Xmas Day 2013 to New Years Day 2014 in Pensacola, Florida

Xmas Day - December 25, 2013 

We had a completely different Christmas Day planned from normal.  It felt quite strange as it was our first Christmas with just the "two of us" and CoCo of course!!!
We didn't have our usual full cooked breakfast and settled for bacon sandwiches.  Dinner was going to be at 2pm and we wanted to be ready for that.
We had a few pressies to open, thanks to mum and ourselves.  We had already exchanged our christmas gifts with Bryan's mom when we were with her in Louisiana.
We had arranged to skype with family in the UK on Boxing Day as the internet is usually very busy and slow on Xmas Day.  We skyped with Bryan's mom and then got ready for dinner.
Brenda, John, LeeAnne and Aimee seemed to have a busy morning opening presents which looked like fun from the videos and pics that they posted.  Ryan & Christina were both working today although Ryan did call us later in the evening and it was nice to talk to one of our kids actually on Xmas Day. :)
We took our Mexican Corn and Mince Pies to the Christmas Dinner potluck.  There were a lot of people there and a LOT of food.  The hosts had cooked three turkeys and mashed potatoes and everyone else brought a dish.  Someone even brought brussel sprouts and so I was happy.  We sat with two other couples, one was retired air force like Bryan and they had been to a lot of the same bases and he had even been stationed in England at Woodbridge for 7 years, although as he was 72 most of his tours were before Bryan was even in the military.  They still had a lot to talk about though.  The other couple were a 92 year old man and his wife who were from Arkansas and came south in the winter.
After we left we went for a walk on the beach with CoCo to walk off our dinner and ended up walking down to the lighthouse and back. It was a little chilly but nice.

On our way to the beach

Boxing Day - December 26, 2013

We talked to Ian, Kris, Bailey & Kai on Skype today. The boys showed us what they got for christmas by playing with their toys.  Kai sang Jingle Bells although you couldn't make out the words he was saying it was definitely Jingle Bells from the tone, ha!! ha!!  It was cute.  Bailey helped, he is very good with his little brother.  We spoke to mum on skype as well.  We haven't skyped for a long while and it was good to see her and Ray & Julie.  I cooked Ham for dinner today and tried to decide what to do about my computer.  I was going back and forth between a tablet and a laptop. I could get a good deal on an ipad Air for $499 with wifi and free unlimited cellular until April but it only had 16gb storage.  In the end I decided I needed a new laptop mainly for the storage and memory even though it meant it would cost more. :(

December 27, 2013

We went food and computer shopping.  I still wasn't convinced I was going to buy anything but when we got to the NEX I saw they had an older version Macbook Air laptop for $796, considerably cheaper than the current version and as it was still new and in an unopened box I decided to get it. It is a late 2012 model. Merry Christmas to me!!!!  Thanks Bryan. :)  The rest of the day was spent trying to figure it out!!!  My old Mac(laptop) is about 8 years old and the operating system has changed a little and it took some getting used to.  In fact I'm still getting used to it.

December 28 - 29, 2013

It rained most of the day on the 28th and I took this video so you can see and hear what it sounds like in our home when it rains!!!!
Spent these two days mainly working out my new computer.  It took me most of one day to load all of my pictures on the new computer, only to find out when I went back that none of them were there. :(  I was not a happy camper as you can imagine and have not tried to load the older pictures again since but have got all my other programs loaded, Skype, Office, Adobe etc.  I am especially pleased that I've got the current version of Adobe as I can now watch You Tube videos again.  I put all my bookmarks back on and so my new laptop is getting to be more familiar to me and I am gradually getting used to it.

December 30th 2013

After being indoors for a couple of days we decided to go for a drive.  I looked up some properties that were for sale for less than $50,000 and we went and had a look.  Now, bear in mind that this is cheap and so they were not going to be wonderful but we need somewhere we can park the motorhome and hopefully live in when we want to stay in one place.  Here are links to the best two!!!
6264 Footprint & 29 Arthur    The second one wasn't in that great of a neighborhood but had a nice size lot.  We didn't fall in love with either of them, ha!! ha!!

New Years Eve - December 31st, 2013

Spent today going over finances and paying a couple of bills as I like to try and get everything paid before the end of the year.  We are staying in tonight as we don't really like crowds and everywhere is always crowded New Years Eve.  Skyped with Chrissie & Ian although their camera wasn't working so we didn't get to see them but it was still good talking.
We stayed up and watched the Pensacola Pelican Drop which was different.  It was followed by fireworks, not quite on the same scale as Las Vegas but not bad for a smaller town and we could hear them where we were at.

Pensacola Pelican Drop

Found this picture of the first New Years Eve Bryan & I spent together with Chrissie in 1987. 

New Years Day - January 1st, 2014

Well, the first day of 2014.  I caught up with the blog.  Tried to transfer all my pictures to my new laptop again.  I think it worked this time, yay!!!  Had a cleaning spurt and rearranged the kitchen a little, it is still a work in progress!!  Bryan worked on fixing some things about the house and watched LSU. That's about it for now.  We had a pretty good day, it is now raining but we are tucked up indoors watching TV, Hawaii Life.

Happy New Year to all our family and friends.  We hope you all have a wonderful year.