Busch Gardens, Tampa is an African theme. We went there yesterday with the Taekema family. We had a great time. Right when we got there, Santa was setting up, so all the kids sat on his knee and told him what they wanted for Christmas. Yvonne has her heart set on the 12 Dancing Princess's Carriage - don't know where we're going to put it!!! We spent some time looking at the animals. We were all amazed at the length of a giraffe's tongue. Jim waited to get the perfect shot. We also went on a few rides before we pooped out. It was pretty hot and muggy. When we got in the car at the end of the day, our thermometer said 86F and that was at 4:30. The bottom picture is Yvonne on her first loop-de-loop roller coaster. You can see me (Leslie) and Catherine in the second to last car. Yvonne is right behind me although you can't see her and Rachel is beside Yvonne. Yvonne absolutely loved it.

Today is a relaxing day with the Taekema family coming to visit for dinner. We're cooking turkey - FINALLY. Couldn't get a fresh whole one, so we've got a load of pieces going in the outside oven right now. We will spend the afternoon around our pool. There's three pools in this RV park and the one we've been going to is warm like a hot tub. Very luxurious.