[mom2five]

Gracie

We closed on our house in Amelia last October. Everyone in the neighbourhood was eager to make friends. When we visited the Amelia pool everyone was very friendly and eager to start relationships and organize neighbourhood parties both at the pool and at street parties in the various parts of our village. I also met people at line dancing classes who invited me to other activities and helped me to find my way to the things i wanted to explore in The Villages. I spent my first stay in Florida furnishing the house so was very busy that I feel I did not develop all these opportunities as much as I should have but the opportunities were certainly there,. I then went home to Canada for a few months.

When I came back after Christmas I had many visitors from home and again got very busy but still found opportunities to meet new people as I tried new activities etc.

The few weeks I was there on my own I tried some new things like golf ad pickle ball and every where I went many people were eager to get together and invited me to join them to get together so we could develop these new skills and socialize.

TOTV also organized activities that allowed me to meet some of the people I had talked to on line.

In conclusion there were more opportunities to make friends then I could keep up with. I am sure you will have the same experience.

I just hope that when I get back in the fall I can pick up where I left off.

Keep a place open for me all of you who are lucky enough to be there all year. I will be back in just a few short months.