More to come

We are still in Port Orchard, doing our usual thing. I put a new post or two here, but they are not here. So I have to redo them.

We went to Tacoma Mall to replace the Zagg cover on my iPad and to get some training at the Apple Store. I bought some salt scrub in a mall kiosk because we had both tried it in Disney and like it.

Joel came to buy our older MacBook computer and helped us with some stuff on the newer MacBook Air. We found it was infected with malware, adware actually.  !!??!!  I don't know how it got there, I went to the Apple Store to get it fixed. 

He put the lighted Apple logo from a laptop into a suitcase.  It is definitely outstanding. 

  

We can't have a proper Thanksgiving this year, because Bill Jones said he would come, then changed his mind when it's too late to make other provisions. We will just go to a restaurant by ourselves. 

Back in Port Orchard

We arrived home just around midnight on Nov. 6.

It was a dark and stormy night. And very cold.
And the house was cold. But we made it.

We had wonderful visit with Karen and Richard, in the beautiful condo in Orlando. I was like another vacation. On Nov 5, they drove us to Ft Lauderdale to catch the 6:30 AlaskaAir non-stop flight to Seattle. After 6 ½ hours' flight we landed and took a bus for 1 hour and then a taxi to the house.

Now we have been catching up, on banking, bills, mail, getting groceries, washing, getting out heaters and cold weather clothes, and such. I had to get a new pair of glasses, because I lost mine on the ship coming home. Our cat won't associate with us, but she eats, so we got more food.

I was finally able to upgrade my system on my iPad to iOS 8.1, at a time I could go to the Apple Store and get some pointers on it. Its way of handling photos has changed, and I can't really go with it because it is so tied in with iCloud Drive and all other devices, and our other devices are too old. I'll have to wait for the upgrades. But I am using the editing tools on Photos.

Anyway, I got the Zagg cover replaced, so it feels good again. No more black marks from Sharpie permanent marker. FYI - dry erase marker does not remove permanent marker ink from a Zagg cover, in fact, it scuffs it. 

The typing on the new version is very strange. It offers 3 words to choose from as soon as I type the 1st letter. Sometimes even before the 1st letter. And they are so often correct. I have not tried dictation yet.  My Siri doesn't understand me, dictation probably won't, too. 

October 31 - Halloween - Our Anniversary

Today we met up with our friends from Victoria,

Chas and Heather Martin, and they treated us to a 33rd anniversary dinner and dessert at Chilli's near Disney World.  Yum!

This is only our 2nd time here.  Chas comes 2 or 3 times a year, but Heather has not been here for a couple of years. We just happened to luck out, all being here, in Orlando, at the same time. 🎃

It was much fun. Unfortunately, they didn't get to meet Karen and Richard, who were coming from Jacksonville.