Driving Home – Wed & Thurs – March 21th & 22nd The vacation officially is ending with a 2-day drive back home. We had a last breakfast with a few of the early risers in the Embassy Suites (eggs to order, omelets, fruit, juice, milk/tea, etc). We had virtually everything packed the night before, and we put the final few things in the last bag Wednesday morning. We were able to get a luggage trolley and took all the bags down to the car, got everything loaded, and on the road by 8:15. It was a little disappointing to see the end of our vacation, but we are eager to get back home. The drive was fine on Wednesday with good weather and no problems with traffic. The entire route is basically interstate highways, ... read more

Atlanta Braves Road Game - Monday – March 19th Hello for Palm Beach Garden (at the hotel). This is the last day that we go to a baseball game, so it means our vacation is rapidly winding down. There are still another couple of days, but the reality of the situation is beginning to hit us. Of course, the up side is that we are anxious to get home and see the family back there. We had a relatively early departure this morning, so once again we could not sleep very late. We got up and had another full breakfast. However today, Janet got the cook to prepare French Toast. She ordered one slice of French Toast and one egg-over-medium, and she got two of each. David had his pancakes and omelet. With juice, ... read more

Detroit Tigers Game - Saturday – March 17th Happy St Patrick’s Day! Most people were dressed in green today and we were wearing Cardinal St Pat shirts from earlier years. But today there was more green than red. Today started with another delicious breakfast. Actually it started with an accident where Janet spilled a cup of hot water on her hand, but she recovered and then we had breakfast. The water problem was resolved last night, so they turned on the juice machine again, so we hade the full repertoire of the menu. But we had to get to eating promptly since the bus was scheduled to leave at 9:00. A couple of people were late showing up, and one person had to run back to get his ticket from his ... read more

Boston Red Sox Game - Thursday – March 15th Hello from the Cardinal Travel Tour. We officially joined the tour yesterday evening, but today was the first real event. We started the day with breakfast. Embassy Suites provides a complimentary comprehensive breakfast each morning. Sadly we started at the serving stations and did not recognize there was also a window where you could get your breakfast prepared to your tastes. Today was good but from now on we will have really great breakfasts. Today was a “road game” and we had to catch the bus at 10:00 for our trip to Fort Meyers. The bus ride took about 3 hours, so we are getting a bit tired of buses, but we spent the time chatting with our fellow fans, and watching some ancient reruns ... read more

Key West - Tuesday – March 13th Wow! Another busy day in Florida!! We had a good tour, but it was a very loooooong day. But we are glad to have seen Key West. The day started by us leaving our hotel at 5:45 AM to go to the pickup point and we got back to our room at 10:00 PM. That is why we did not publish anything yesterday. Now we are trying to catch up (being a day behind). We had previously found the hotel where we needed to meet the tour and we had found a 24-hr McDonalds for a drive-thru breakfast. We grabbed breakfast sandwiches (the hotel breakfast did not start until 6:30) and went to the Hilton for our pickup. We actually got there about 20 ... read more