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Hudson Oaks, Texas, United States

We have listed the RV for sale on the internet through RV Online. We get a good cash offer through a gentleman in Spain. He flies to the DFW airport, gives us a check, Bank of America verifies the check. He drives it to Houston and puts it on a ship to Spain.
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Dallas, Texas, United States

We arrive in Dallas New Years Eve and spend it with Steve's brother, Mitch. We shop and get really to go to the Cotton Bowl Game tomorrow morning. The game is not until 1-2-06, but half the fun is the tailgating.

We arrive at the perfect time, park the motorhome and settle in. There are Alabama fans everywhere! Texas Tech fans finally start to pull in. Alabama fans are the king of tailgating...I think they do this quite often.

We go to the pep rally and parade that night, grill some fajitas, the boys pick up a football game, it's a good night.

Tech loses the game. We leave after a few hours to go back to Mitch's house.
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Sometown, Mississippi, United States

We have spent the night in northern Florida and continue on our journey back to Texas. When we drove through Florida,a few weeks ago, in the southern parts, we saw quite a bit hurricane damage cleanup going on. As we are now driving through Mississippi we see tons of FEMA trailers just being stored, a lot of trash on the sides of the road from hurricane Katrina and damage everywhere. It is a sight that makes us think,just think.
The FEMA trailers aren't being used and we call a friend, his company is still building them??? And we are paying for hotels?? Anyway enough about this!

We stay north of New Orleans to spend the night.
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Key West, Florida, United States

We pack up the motorhome and get on our way. It takes almost three hours to get out of the Keys. Everyone is coming into the Key for New Years,so it seems.

We drive through Everglades National Park. It is very swampy and green. As we are driving our oldest shouts out,"There's an alligator on the side of the road." We all start looking... we end up seeing over a hundred gators, anywhere from three feet to huge. They are just sunny themselves along side of the swamp, which is on the ride of the road. There is no shoulder just swamp and gators. Pretty cool to see!
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Tucson, Arizona, United States

We leave Texas for a week in Tuscon, Arizona. It's our seventh year for MLB Spring Training. Tuscon is home to the World Series White Sox, DiamondBack and Rockies. It is a great town! We meet my Mom and Dad out at Beaudry's RV Resort in Tuscon. They bring their fifth wheel and we are next to them in our rig. The week is made up of Baseball games daily at 1:05, swimming in the pool, riding bikes, picking lemons and eating.

At each game the boys are off catching foul balls and free t-shirts that are flung with rubberband. They bring home about a dozen foul balls. I sit, watch the games,eat peanuts, and keep score...and am holder of all(foul balls,shirts,candy,peanuts,etc.)

It's a great week, if you haven't gone to watch this annual event.It continues through all of March. Games are priced right and weather,Wow! you can't beat it! Put it on your "to do" list!
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Key West, Florida, United States

Day 3

We went day to Key West. Cool! More of an adult place than kids, but...?!!@@#
We check out things and were only 90 miles from Havana.. an interesting thought!

Day 4

It was a total fishing day for everyone. They brought in three sharks today. We cooked up the one Preston caught and ate it Baja style....Yummy!!! I am loving the Keys! What a relaxing place!

Day 5

It's another day of fishing. This day Connor and Parker each bring in a Bonnet Shark,yummy to eat. We freeze it for later eatings.

Day 6

It's Connor's birthday and it's cool and windy. He wants to parasail but it's too windy so we will wait until another day. His day is filled with birthday wishes,lasagna for dinner, Key lime pie for dessert and watching Narnia at the theatre(a GREAT movie)
He also enjoys fishing.

Day 7

We go to the beach all day enjoy a warm day. We snorkel a bit and just hang out. We watch a great sunset, and head home. Key West is known for there sunsets.See them if you can!

Day 8

We rent a boat and head out to the ocean. We fish, snorkel amoung the reefs and see a few incredible private islands. We also see where Flipper(the TV show) was filmed. Another great day!

Day 9

Merry Christmas....We just hang out and enjoy the day!

Day 10

We rent a boat and head out to the ocean. Again we fish, snorkel and enjoy the beauty of the Keys!

Day 11

We walk and shop down on Duval Street, quite a learning experience for all. We buy a few things and enjoy a yummy lunch.

We head on down to the beach. We sign everyone up for Parasailing. Everyone had a great time. This is one you should try to do too! It was a great view of the island. We hang out at the beach and enjoy the rest of the day...and an incredible sunset!

Day 12

Leaving out of the Keys....
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States

We spent three days here at Myrtle Beach. A great beach,but I heard it's a zoo during the summer!

It was warm enough for the boys to swim for a bit in the beach and build some great sand castles.
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Sugar Loaf, Florida, United States

Day 1

It's off to fishing for the boys. They are quite the fishermen. They are catching Snappers( for bait),Yellow Jacks(we ate this), 20lb nurse shark(catch and release),puffer fish,+others

We also snorkeled for a bit.

Day 2

Back to fishing, snorkeling, and swimming....It's 80 degrees! We are only 90 miles from Cuba!
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Orlando, Florida, United States

Day 1

We arrive at Disney World with rain,but no problems. We are staying at Disney's Fort Wilderness(RV resort),so we can shuttle, by bus and boat everywhere, a big + for me!!
Tonight we head to Epcot. As we enter everything is decorated beautifully. We jump on the ride,Test Track...FUN!The boys and Steve also go on The Mission Space, after another ride on Test Track we head to Christmas Around the World. There we see all the different Santa's from around the world. We also enjoy great live music from the Celebration of the Season, wonderful Christian music! At the end of evening we watch a fireworks spectacular like only Disney can do! Exhausted we get home and crash.

Day 2

MGM Studios... We head directly to Tower of Terror 2x, an elevator type ride that drops you when you least expect it!Rock N' Roller Coaster,a great stunt show Light,Motors Action, and the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, we all got to play...the boys play twice. We have a caricature a the boys made. I make the boys watch a little of the Jingle Parade.We walk down the Streets of America and see the Osborne Fmail Spectacle of Lights. This is 14 million lights(watch out new neighbors Steve has ideas) and Disney has it snowing!!! At the end of the night we watch Fantasmic...a great performance by Mickey and his crew.

Day 3

Typhoon Lagoon, Disney's water park...it's a little chilly today but the water is 80 degrees. They have a fun water roller coaster called Crush n' Gusher. I even went on it twice and then I just hung out in the huge wave pool.

We warm up and head to THe Grand Floridian Hotel, by boat to see the Gigantic Gingerbread house, yummy! The Grand Floridian would remind you of the Hotel Del Coronado. Then it's to Magic Kingdom(my favorite). As you enter the Main Street, USA is decorated so incredible...I have ideas for next year. The boys ride Space Mountain, Indy Speedway...my old favorite and now Parker's.

Day 4

We leave the Wonderful World of Disney and head to Universal Studios/Island of Adventure. If you like Roller Coasters this is where you need to visit! The HULK is incredible, the boys also ride, Jurassic Park River Adventure(wet ride), Dueling Dragons...We go back to ride Spider-mans Adventure before lunch and get stuck in the middle of the ride and have to be escorted out. We head over to Universal Studios and see, A Tribute to Lucy,Men in Black,Revenge of the Mummy(I had to go on this) Blues Brothers Street show,Shrek 4-D...really cute if you liked Shrek. We go back to Island of Adventure and the boys go back on Hulk for several more times before we head home.

Day 5

We ride the boat back over to The Magic Kingdom for the day. Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad,Pirate of the Caribbean(not as good as the one in California)The Hall of Presidents..very cool they have replica(like only Dieney can do) of all the Presidents...they move and talk. See this one! We leave early and try to rest before we go to see Mickey Parade tonight.

We go back to the Magic Kingdom, it's a winter wonderland, it's snowing down Mainstreet. Disney is also handing out Hot Chocolate and cookies, yummy in our tummy! We listen to special Brass music,have dinner and then watch the fireworks like only Disney can do, right over Cinderellas Castle.At the end is the fabulous parade, with all of the characters of Disney. A wonderful night.

Day 6

It's off to Animal Kingdom...because I wanted to go on Safari. Disney did a great with the whole African cities and theme. We also took a walk through a Safari that was done very well.

Back to Typhoon Lagoon(Disney's water park) Fun again!

Home for dinner and then back out to The Magic Kingdom with Connor and Parker. Preston wanted to stay home...he actually crashed before 9pm. Connor and Parker and I watched the Fireworks from Splash Mountain and enjoyed our evening.

Day 7

Back to MGM to ride a few of the boys favorite rides and of course to play "How to Be a Millionaire"

We ate lunch at Planet Hollywood...good food, but too loud for me!

And because we weren't tired enough we went to Downtown Disney Westside and went to Disney's Quest...it's five stories of arcade,video and virtual reality games. Compared to Planet Hollywood the noise level was right there!

We even talked about going back to Epcot,because it was opened late...we pick up the Motorhome and crashed!

We loved the Magic Kingdom!!!!


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Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Day 1

Beautiful Charleston, South Carolina... We take a carriage ride to see the city. It is a beautiful town. It would kind of remind you of New Orleans. It was interesting to us the different versions of history we keep hearing. I guess it is whether you live in the north of the south or what may be important to you! We have a yummy seafood dinner and retire home.

Day 2

Connor has been fishing again, in the lake that says do not feed the alligators. He catches a bass?

We head out to see the Navy's battleship, submarine, air craft carrier and coast guard(I'll get these names to you soon)VERY, VERY INteresting for the boys and all!!
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