OC Get Away- April 10th

This morning Jeff left for Taiwan. His first stop was to be San Francisco. Emily said his flight was delayed due to a fuel leak, once fixed, they departed. Going to be tight on the connecting flight in SF.

Greg came home from work at noon and we headed right out for the beach. Opening day of baseball for the Orioles at Camden Yards. We saw quite a few fans heading to the stadium. It is misty and overcast. Actually glad we did not go for opening day tickets.

You could barely see anything going over the Severn River Bridge, foggy. The Bay Bridge was even worse. It looked like we were driving off into nowhere.

Stopped for lunch at Panera in Easton.

Got to the Condo, saw that the bathroom is moving along. It has another coat of paint to go on the walls, but getting there. I about Exploded when I went to the cupboard and found that something I knew was there had disappeared! As we know in this family, things don't grow legs and walk off! I feel violated! We went out and were able to replace the item, so it wasn't the $, it was the idea that someone took something from our house, while they were there to work, not go through the cupboards. Nough said!

Around 3:19 we got a text from Amber that said Baby Nick was born. We had been following that I for from an earlier text.

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      Well a lot of water has gone under the damn, since I last blogged. Whatever that expression means, not quite sure.

      We have a new Grandson, Ryan Langley Dumler. He was born on March 24th at 3:35 am. He came in at 8.74 oz. two sweet boys for John and Amber!

     January 13 th, 2015, Emily, Jeff, Jack  and Elliot moved back to the U.S. From Dubai, UAE. I guess I should update their family. they moved to Dubai, in early 2013. Jeff was working as an instructor pilot for the UAE. They had a beautiful villa in an exclusive community near Motor City. Greg and I were fortunate to be able to fly over there in early April 2014, for Elli's birth. Elliot Grace Gelzinis came into this world on 04-14-2014. The whole hospital Maternity Ward. In Dubai is very much different that in the US. Outside the rooms are these elaborate floral/ balloon arrangements. that was the only real difference. Greg had to fly back to the U.S. A few days after Elli's birth. I was fortunate to be able to stay for 29 days. I had a really good time, I was able to drive to Spinney's in Motor City to do shopping.  I drove to the shopping area in Arabian Ranches too. After Emily started to feel better, we did some sight seeing. Went to Jumeirah beach, the a Country Club, where We saw Peter, from their church, playing Jazz. We drove by the Palm, and Atlantis, the Burg al Arab. We went to the Global Village, which was really cool! We went to the Dragon Mart, which was a collection of stores. The Malls were  really big and grand.  Sure glad that we got to go there and experience of going global!

     We also bought a condo at Ocean City, from Jeff's Grandmother, that April. It was a real fixer-upper, but we got it looking pretty good that season. We went to the beach every chance we got. It has been a great get away, but costly at the same time. We had to come up with $30000 for new doors and windows! We have had some water damage. But at the same time, it is a great get away. Love going there. Hopefully John, Amber and the kids, as well as Emily ! Jeff and their kids will get to enjoy it for years to come!