The San souci hotel

The hotel we stayed at for two weeks.

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of the San Souci hotel. I liked this hotel a lot. The owners were very nice and helpful, and the location was great.

Vernon and Irene Lindfors

in my parents apartment in the hotel. It was so exciting to meet them for the first time. They arrived a little early on Sunday November 12th, so we (my family and I) were out of the hotel, shopping of course! When we arrived back at the hotel, I saw the car from our kitchen window, and in the frontwindow of the car was a photo of me. So then I knew they had arrived. I went looking for them and finally got to meet them.

My dad Gills, Roger and I.

Next I kept my eyes open for Roger and Janet. And it was so nice to see them as well. We talked and huged and welcomed them up to our room. Here we are looking at some of the family research.

Roger.

A nice photo of Roger in my parents apartment.

Victoria and Irene.

I got a presents, a cap from Vern and Irene and a very nice makeup bag from Roger and Janet.

Coffee and Key Lime pie.

We had to have something to snack on while talking so much.

Vernon and Gills.

My dad, Gills, called my aunt Anita in Sweden so Vernon could talk with her.

More family talk.

Irene, myself and Roger.

Me on the phone...

Roger called his sisters, Helen, Mardelle and Eloise so I could talk to them. And also his son Robert. That was a lot of fun! I was a bit shy speaking on the phone, but everyone was so nice and interested so that heleped a lot.

Roger and Gills.

Roger is showing us a lot of interesting things about the family.

It's getting late.

And we were all starting to get hungry after the exciting day. Here Roger and Janet are deaply involved in the family facts, just before we decided to get going to the resturant.

Resturant.

Later in the evening we were going out to dinner. Here are we infront of the resturant. The food was nice but the service was NOT good. But I think all of us had a nice time because we had such good company - eachother.

Irene and Janet

Talking.

Irene, Vernon, Janet and Myself.

I am showing them the family tree. After this we had to prepare for saying bye bye...

Roger, Gills, Victoria and Vernon.

We gathered down in the garden and then I asked one of the owners to take some photos for us. Didn't they turn out very good?

Victoria and Vernon.

Roger, Vernon and Gills.

Group photo.

From the left: Janet, Roger, Gills, Kristina, Vernon, Irene and Göran. And then it's me down below.

Roger and Victoria.

Leaving...

At around 12 in the afternoon on November 13th, Vernon & Irene and Roger & Janet had to leave us. It was sad, but had to be done.

Here you see Vernonand Irene going to their car, way down the street. And janet is getting into their car, Roger is already inside the car.

Sunday November 21st.

We went to see Roger and Janet at their home. They had asked us to come for a visit and of course we were thrilled to go see them. Janet had prepared a traditional thanksgiving dinner for us. That was so special. I had never had a meal like that before. janet is a great cook! Here she is infront of dinner. I took a photo of the dinnertable as well, but unfortunatly it didn't turn out good.

Roger and Gills.

Roger is looking in the phonebook.

Roger

Roger on the phone with my aunt Anita in Sweden.

Janet and my mom Kristina.

My mom is admiring Janets nicely set table.

Göran, Roger and Kristina.

Roger and Janet took us to theHistoric Bok Sanctuary. That was such a nice place. Very calm and beautiful. One of the nicest places I have been to in Florida- over the years. (This was my 7th. trip to Florida, but the last time I was there was 6 years ago and I hadn't started my genealogy then, so I didn't know I had family there...Unfortunatly!)

Victoria and Göran.

We are standing by the Bok Tower, it's a 205-ft. carillon (60 bells) tower. It was designed by Milton B. Medary.

Victoria, Janet, Gills and Roger.

We are standing by the marble exedra and sunset overlook, at 298ft. this spot is the highest point in peninsular Florida.

Bok Tower

A very beautiful photo that I took.

Roger, Kristina and Gills.

Probably looking at squirrels on the ground. There were a lot of them there, and they were soooo cute.

Birthday party

Roger turned 80 y.o. on November 18th and also my dad had his 57th birthday on November 23d. So we had a small birthday party while visiting. We sang "Happy Birthday" and then the Swedish birthday song "Ja må han leva".

This was really fun. I was very surprised to hear that Roger actually knows quite a lot of Swedish. So much fun for us. he surprised us many times while we were there.

Breakfast, November 22nd.

Roger and Janet prepared a very nice breakfast for us. We were up quite early as we needed to get going. I asked janet if they had been up all night preparing our breakfast, because it was so nice.

Roger, Janet and Victoria

Nice photo of the three of us. Sorry to say, I am closing my eyes...I can't seem to keep my eyes open when the camera flashes.

Gills by Roger and Janets house.

And also our rental car while being in Florida.

Group photo

My mom Kristina took this photo of the rest of us just before we left Roger and Janet. It was really hard leaving them this time - since I knew I might not see them in person for a very long time. I wish we lived closer...

Roger and Janet called us when we came back to Fort Lauderdale and I talked to them on the phone just an hour before we had to leave for the airport, to go back home to Sweden.