Day 16: On Our Way Back Home...We're On Our Way Home...

What a wonderful time with Stu and Lauren, and we think there may be a plan brewing for next summer's college "reunion"...but I'll let Stu handle that. For our trip today, we find ourselves finally heading North and West instead of East and South....we have taken 2 weeks to come this far and will take only 1 week returning home. First great stop is with the Groarks! Not Mark and Marilyn...but the next gen...Sean and Sera! Living in Milton, Florida just 20 minutes from world famous Pensacola....Sean is finishing Coast Guard Flying School and Sera is providing fitness training for the motivated locals.

If you could smell Sean in his flight suit, you'd quickly realize he just returned from a "harrowing, near nauseating experience of dead stall, deep spin, give me a break and save me" kind of flight practice...he did change before dinner!
The greatest gift in the last 4 years arrived while we were waiting to go for dinner. Their Wedding Album...Can you believe it has taken 4 years and daily phone calls by Groark senior to make this a reality. Sera was just a bit excited :)))
Notice their wedding date of August 13th, 2005...and honestly this just showed up today.

This next picture might reflect the money dance Sera had on her wedding date, but it was actually the ceiling of a famous restaurant in Pensacola, where nearly 1 million 1 dollar bills are signed and stuck to the ceiling.

You would think this is ripe for a bit of prestidigitation...and this has been tried, but the thieves have always been caught since each bill is signed and everyone in the area knows that if you get one of these, it's only because a fool has absconded with the wallpaper...
Oh yeah, the meal was amazing...great burger, great onion rings, great spinach and artichoke dip...and even split between 4 of us, there was an abundance of good eats.
It has been a joy to hear so much about both Sean and Sera's life these days...blessing upon blessing...and we need to pray for God to continue leading them and using their gifts.

Tomorrow we continue heading west to New Orleans and lunch at Mother's...what shall it be...Debris or Shrimp Po Boys??? Decisions at every turn... Special love to Sam who is now in her 2nd day at Disney World...we love you sweetheart...billions much!!! night...