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Constance Knight Philips

    I was divorced in 1993 from my first husband. Four years later I moved to Jacksonville, FL. A year later, I built a house in Eagle Harbor, a development on Fleming Island, in Orange Park. I joined the Orange Park United Methodist Church where I met my present husband, Gene Philips. We were married January 8, 2001, and instantly increased the size of our family quite a bit. To my four children, their spouses, and three grandchildren were added Gene's four children, their spouses, and six grandchildren. We now have a family totaling twenty-nine, whom we enjoy very much. Gene and I are both retired and we divide our time between Orange Park and Fernandina Beach, FL, where we share our family beach house with my sister's family. We both sing in the choir at our church and enjoy boating and traveling. We have become fanatical about scuba diving, having made over 100 dives in the past two years. We love Key Largo! Over the past five years our travels have included Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, China and the Bahamas. We also manage to fit in a snow skiing trip every winter.
    The following is an update to what I wrote previously.
Gene and I went to Paris for our tenth anniversary (2011) and had a great time seeing the usual sights. We have continued our scuba diving. He now has over 250 dives, and I have 210 or so. In 2012 we went to the Dutch island of Bonaire, a mecca for divers. Included in our condo rental was the use of a stick-shift truck and all the air tanks we wanted for the week we were there. We drove ourselves all over that island and dove at 20 or so dive sights directly from the beach—just the two of us. We saw lots and lots of beautiful fish and even a huge manta ray! We swam out and dove down 90 feet or more to see a famous ship wreck, The Hilma Hooker.
    We decided that we should do more traveling in the states, so also in 2012, we went to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Wyoming where we rafted down the Snake River. Our next adventure was a trip with Gene's sister, Bobbye, a huge Elvis fan, to see Memphis and Graceland. It was so much fun! On that trip we also enjoyed the Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile, Alabama.
    Oh yes, we're still snow skiing in Keystone and Breckenridge, Colorado every year—although we're being more conservative than we once were.
    Our children and grandchildren are still a joy. We have 14 grands now, ages 2-25. If I were to tell about all of our kids and grandkids it would just take too long! They're a wonderful blessing. A major part of our time is still singing in the chancel choir and 3 ensembles.

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