#220 Liz Teasdale – Back to Book 3
 
Thirty years is a long time between books and a lot has changed at #220.  Caroline, Doug and Cindy have all gotten married and produced children so there are now eight grandchildren. Caroline and Andrew Walker’s twins are now 18 and Nate spends a good deal of his time up here on the tennis courts. Doug and Jen’s three girls, Ava, Kate and Maren are 17, 15 and 13 and have loved their weeks up here especially when they bring friends.  They not only come in the summer but have spent a lot of Labor Days and Applefest weekends here. Cindy’s three boys, Walter (age 9) and Hal and Gus (age 7) adored gang this year.
 
In 2007 we bought Houston Witherspoon’s cottage (#213) from Jim and enjoyed having it for the overflow until 2014 when the Reardons bought it and have done wonderful things with it.  Caroline and Andrew bought Roxanne Dieffenbach’s right next door (#222) and had a wonderful time renovating it before selling it to the Vellanos in 2020.  Now all 15 family members are going to share #220.
 
We are still enjoying Casino dinners, Bible study, Wednesday evening beach picnics and Thursday afternoon bridge as well as all the wonderful friends on the Belve. Because of Covid some to the cute gang’s performances were in our little park up here which was fun.  I LOVE seeing all the little kids.
 
I’m blown away by the wonderful changes to the resort in the past thirty years.  The Casino is spectacular after the renovations several years ago.  Each cottage looks well taken care of - people now have landscaping instead of a few stray hydrangeas out front.  We have sprinkler systems!  Cottages are selling for ten times what we bought our for - even the wrecks! Private
planes bring residents back and forth.
 
The town has had some ups and downs and this year with Covid it was hard to get into all our favorite restaurants:  the Argonne, Terry’s, the Weatherane.  Hopefully that will change when this pandemic is really over.   Also this summer (2021) the shops in town seem to be upgraded - we went through an ugly t- shirt shop phase awhile ago.  We enjoyed some of the wonderful fashions at the Fashion Show over the Member-Guest weekend.
 
We have all just loved our forty+ years on the Belvedere.