Seafood! Choose seafood!

Tomorrow I plan on gorging myself at the seafood fest. We went to the park. It is in the mid-70s and a few hundred other non-ticketed folks were hanging in the park coming from all over the area on their bikes and on foot with the dogs. Super nice. They did 25 or 6 to 4 for the finale. So glad we went over.

I can still hear the sounds from seafood fest too. We have few weekends left before it gets too hot to enjoy being outside so the various cities are holding just one event after another.

I love your patio.

You should visit again! Everyone should visit me in the winter or spring. I'll visit you guys in the summer and fall. As glorious and March is, September is just gruesome.

And for the trifecta before closing the laptop, I checked the entertainment schedule for tomorrow and at 6:45 - Never Stop Believin' - the Ultimate Journey tribute band. Sounds perfect accompaniment to plastic cups of wine and seafood.

I had a pretty nice and active day today: architectural walking tour in the morning, walked about a half mile from the library to and from the music fest in the park this afternoon (it turned out to be slow bluesy country, so I only stayed to enjoy the sun for a little over an hour), drove to a crawfish hut in a nearby town for dinner, then took a 90-minute walking ghost tour of the downtown area near my apartment. I feel I've made up for having my daily walk cancelled by rain yesterday.

That sounds lovely, both Laura & Matt.

You should visit again!

This will sound odd to most of you. My dad and I wanted to come back down when we were in Daytona this year. But my stepmom does NOT approve of us visiting the (female) friend of the family who lives scant miles from Laura. Last year he and I stayed in a hotel and, dude, my dad is fidelity personified. But she was just not cool with it. Sucks because I adore that family friend. She's had a lot of the professional life I'd love to lead when I grow up. So we don't tack on a couple of days to drive down and see B.

Hilariously, stepmom was visiting her to watch the Oscars with girlfriends WHILE dad and I were also in Florida. Mom could have chaperoned!

Oh well.

I really do like B, so I suspect I am hauling my ass to Florida at a non-Daytona time soon. Which is awesome because it has bonus Laura!

Man, Blackhawks are giving me heart attacks. Five straight games to overtime? Ridic.

smonster, I am Castle Centaur. Finally getting to play again too.

So my brother finally showed up to pick up his daughter at 9:30: I'd had her since 7:30 this morning. SO TIRED.

But the chocolate chip cookies came out great. And she was happy to eat two servings of plain pasta. No butter, no pasta sauce: just plain noodles. WTF. Kids are weird.

And then I let her watch too much Dora the Explorer.

Ugh Suela, that's a long sitting gig. You got to build up endurance.