November 30
Today it was cloudy, humid and windy when we woke up. A storm front is on the way. The Wildeboers picked us up at 9:30 and we went to Calvery Chapel together. This is a mega church in Fort Lauderdale with 2000 people attending each of 3 services on Sunday morning. While in church, we got a phone message from Jack's sister that our brother-in-law Cor Bos in Taber, Alberta went home to be with his Saviour Jesus Christ after losing one of his many battles with cancer. The rain later today expresses our weeping hearts as we make plans to fly from here (Fort Lauderdale) to Calgary next Wednesday (Dec 3) for the the funeral and to be with Margie and her children.
November 29
We arrived here in Pompano Beach on Wednesday, Nov 26 after driving the road closet to the water again Route A1A - we have covered a lot of the eastern coast of Florida in recent days. It's warm and lovely the past few days - just what we have been looking for as we went further south. Our frineds from Oakville, Henry and Jan Wildeboer are near here in Hillsboro Beach spending 3 weeks at their condo. Jan made a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings for us on the American holiday. Walking off the feast was done on the beach though - what a treat! We went to Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church that morning. An absolutely
gorgeous huge organ played well but only a half full church since Dr Kennedy died last year.
We took a drive to Boynton Beach another day to see Jack's sister Alice and Ed's home in Boynton Beach - (sorry you were not home, Alice! - it's waiting in the sun for you to come)
November 25
Today we visited NASA at Cape Canaveral. It is expensive at $38pp so we made a long day of it arriving early and staying til closing. We took a hop on/off bus trip to see the Vehicle Assembly Building , the huge crawler transporter that takes the shuttle and its rockets to the launch pad and the huge 360' Saturn V rocket that launched astronauts to the moon. We saw two 3D movies that we fantastic - with the ugly goggles on, when the astronaut skuffed dirt as he walked on the moon, I had to duck to miss getting hit by a rock. By the time the sun went down and the park closed, it was quite chilly (16C) so we headed back to the RV. We took the computer and parked near a motel to use the wifi and get our email. This works for us when we do not have
internet connections in the campground we are in.