The Eye of Kris

Tomorrow, we head to Florida for a week. I'm looking forward to this trip for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that this past year has been a bit stressful, and now that the deal is done at work, I'm ready to relax a little before jumping into the next phase of my job.

Here's a summary of our plans:

We are leaving after church tomorrow and heading to my parents' house in Lakeland. I don't know if we'll drive all the way there in one shot - we're just going to drive until we can't stand it anymore, and stop for the night along the way if we have to. It will probably depend a lot on how Owen and Ivan do in the car. Owen is usually pretty good, but it's been a while since we took a trip with a baby on a 3-hour meal schedule. That may slow us down a bit.

Monday, we'll either get up early to finish the trip, or sleep in late if we manage to get all the way there on Sunday. We'll probably go visit some family in the area, and maybe go swimming at my grandmother's condo.

Tuesday is the first day of Sun-N-Fun, which I'll be attending for the first time this year. It lasts for a week, but I'm only going to go for the first three days (Tues - Thurs). Mary will go with me one of the days, and my Dad is going to go with me one day as well. Several members of the Middle Tennessee Ultralight Group will be there, so I'll probably try to hook up with some of those guys for part of the time. I've never been to any kind of aviation event of this size, so I don't quite know what to expect, but I'm sure it will be very interesting and a lot of fun (and sun). I will definitely have the camera so expect some pictures at some point.

On Friday, we'll take it easy in the morning, and then leave in the afternoon to go up to north Florida for our annual Family Reunion, which runs from Friday evening through lunch on Sunday. We always have pleanty to do there - canoeing, hiking, football, basketball, RC cars, games, and pleanty of good food. It's one of my favorite events of the year.

Sunday, after lunch, we'll make the drive back to Nashville. I'm quite certain that we'll be wiped out by the time we get home (and probably in need of a vacation!), but it will be a lot of fun and a great break from everyday life.