April 10, 2010

WELL, this is a recap of the last week. We had a busy week with fantastic weather sunny in 80's all week, no humidity, cool nights and no need of air conditioning.
Last Friday after we took Alice to the airport we then had a fabulous day out on the boat with sister Mel & Bob out to North Captiva Island, lunch on the beach, next to the nude beach section, (we gave one old man the prize for best dried arrangement...comment from Ken) then shelling. EVEN KEN ENJOYED THE BEACH.
Saturday a real nice motorcycle ride up to Fort Myers, we bought new motorcycle helmets and adopted the sales girl. We had our Easter dinner at "Famous Dave's Ribs", one of our favorite restaurants, we go to the one in Manchester,NH.
Not quite the Easter dinner Ken is used to, he missed going to his daughter Mel's for Easter dinner.
Easter Sunday we spent the day at the beach watching all the sights and let me tell you there were sights...Ken didn't even take time to read there were so many sights.
Monday early 7:00am ladies league golf at Golden Gate Golf course. Lonnie and I golfed then joined the rest of the ladies at First Watch for breakfast.
Ken and I then checked out tiles at Angela's and took home samples for the condo.
Tues. Gus our new tile installer came and gave us an estimate for doing tile for the entire condo.
Wed. We went and visited one of Gus's customers to see his work and they had him install the same tile Kitty picked out. Kitty loved the tile and Gus's work so we went right to Angela's and ordered the tile.
WE ARE FINALLY COMING INTO THE 21st CENTURY...we broke down, gave in and bought a GPS. We now have a new toy and it gives Kitty something to do so Ken can drive. Today we also made arrangement to have the power source added to the motorcycle so we can use it in the car and the motorcycle.
Yesterday, had lunch with sister Mel & Bob at Shrimp Shack in Cape Coral as they are leaving on Saturday for the 15 day cruise through the Panama Canal then flying back from LA, Calif.
It was a good long day ride (9:30-5:00) up Bonita beach, Fort Myers beach then on to Cape Coral and back, good practice for the long days we will be on the bike out west. Our new motorcycle back support belts work well and the new helmets feel great.
We almost have had some set backs about continuing the travel when we were not sure if we should return home. First FEMA was looking for our availability to work as there are so many New England declarations, Ma., Maine, NH, RI from the flooding and so many DAE's were already deployed to Alabama, DC, etc. for the snow storms. We talked and decided that this trip was a priority as we had planned it for 2 years and we might not ever have the opportunity to take this adventure and we are not getting any younger.
Now Kitty has a letter from the IRS regarding her 2008 tax return. Carol has been checking the mail for us and this unexpected letter turned up. Carol is forwarding the letter and hopefully Kitty can get an extension to answer the problem.