Gainesville Adventure - Day 2

 Starting the day out fresh.

 Tanking up with grampa.

Car seat trance

Exploring Micanopy

 Window shopping.

What caught my eye.

 What caught Karl's eye.

 Taking a snack break.

Over-stocked shops- too much to see.

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Trying for some family photos.

 Real southern BBQ at a quickie mart...Sorry no photos

 Exploring where Jeff spends his time...the student dental clinic

 Practicing something on the papa.

 Exploring Haile Plantation Village after dark.

It's been a good day.

Guess where we are

Loving a Sweet Pea.

 ...in Gainesville Florida.

The Puzzle-Off

We Toblers love a good competition.  

And now we've got the next generation in on the challenges.

The competition: a 24 piece Thomas the Train Puzzle.

...new out of the Box

 Violet...10 minutes 3 seconds

 Charlie...10 minutes 34 seconds

After Chad's family had left for their Boston home, the big people decided to give the puzzle a try.

Gramma Jan...3 minutes

Kyle...2 minutes 50 seconds

Kimberly...2 minutes 40 seconds

Grampa Karl...Ohhh....Let just say puzzles aren't his strong suit.  

Christmas Magic

Just waiting for Santa

Is that an Elf filling the stockings?

The quiet of Christmas approaching.

 

Santa Claus's helper accidentally overlooked  the box with all the Christmas presents in it while packing...whence Violet and Lucia just had the gifts from the relatives.  Santa left a note saying that their present from him her under their Christmas tree in Boston.  Lucia, of course, didn't notice. And Violet was okay with the fact that Charlie and Greta had far more presents to open. 

A beautiful Christmas Dinner

(Sorry no photo...I was cooking)

Sing Christmas carols

After dinner and caroling we dashed out to see the Hampden Christmas Lights
(this is all on one short block in Baltimore)

A Robot Nativity

A hubcap Christmas Tree

 Amazing...a miracle on 34th Street!

Merry Christmas to all

And to all and good Night