Florida - A lucky break?

We have just returned from a fantastic holiday in Florida, I stayed with my Uncle Keble, it's the first time we have met him,  my cousin Polly and her husband Leslie, came from Connecticut to stay with us for a week and we all went to meet cousin Mel, aged 87, we spent three hours listening to him tell us about the origins of our family on my Grandmother's side and we made a family tree of seven generations starting with a slave named Mimi Briscoe, who was freed from slavery at the tender age of 12.  Mel also kept us in stitches with tales of his life and travels starting from Jamaica and moving to the UK before settling in Florida in the 1980's.  We drove down Alley Gate Alley and Snake Road to  visited my Aunt Maxine in Charlotte County and met numerous cousins, and we all went tovisit  Grandma's grave.  Then we enjoyed a stay in a Motel with a heated swimming pool and Herons in the garden, before heading back to Miramar,

We also discovered that Uncle K (Keble Drummond & the Cables) isn't the only celebrity in the family, newly discovered cousin Marcia J Ball is also a singer worth listening to

We will be meeting cousins in London next year and we have an invitation to stay with Polly and Leslie, and meet more family in Connecticut which we have accepted and shall go in 2017 and shall then fly to Florida to spend some time with Uncle K and look in on the rest of the Clan while we are at it.  it's all very exciting....

    

          

Have suitcase, Will travel

me and my other half are having a great time arranging our holidays so that we can travel abroad to meet family members who were just names on christmas card or people talked about over the years and never met.

first stop was New York where we met an Aunt, an uncle we didn't know existed and and eight cousins.  We also discovered a wonderful shop called 'Bed Bath and Beyond.....  Had our picture drawn in Central park and enjoyed hours of fun and walking in Manhatta
n.  Hubby went right to the top of the Empire state building while I (coward) waited almost two hours for him in the souvenir shop on the second floor.

Next we booked our flights to Jamaica with a three hour transit stop over at Atlanta and made the most of it by arranging to meet a cousin and have lunch with her at the airport before continuing on our merry way to Jamaica to visit my (never met) Grandfather's grave and to meet more family, known and

unknown.  It's always a pleasure and so good to be able to put names to faces.  Our next trip is getting closer and we will be flying to Miami, Florida, to meet an Uncle never meet, see an Aunt not seen for many years and meet cousins never met before.  We are getting quite excited, it's two adventures in one each time, A new country and and fresh new faces I can't wait.