Monday, July 6: Rain & Relaxation

Well this morning I woke up to rain and then went back to sleep and basically ate breakfast. I munched in a couple fruits and Saturn did nothing that’s what Mary and I did too. Alice got up a couple hours or like she does and we just lounge around and did not much of anything. Dave went to Target and he’s hopefully going to get us some stock coffee which we ran out of already. It’s now 2:53 PM and and it’s starting to rain harder outside. We’re going to go to the Hands store and get some stuff. Hopefully won’t get too wet. We may be facing this kind of weather for the rest of the week. We’re not sure yet. Of course Donald Trump had to interfere with the World Cup and get a suspension lifted by the top US soccer player. Now Even that’s tainted. Everything he touches is tainted 10 years of him and we are quite de tainted country. That’s for sure. We hung out Dave came over and we talked about this stupid Trump’s bullshit and then he got us some more coffee at the target where he went to. We then decided we’d go out and hit the hand store and get some stuff. We’ve been inside all day in the rain pretty much stopped so we decided all go out shopping so we went there and then Alice dropped us off at the Bay Village and Mary and I are now wandering around the store and still looking for break your old gym shorts which seem to be not a thing. The Hands store wants to sell men’s bathing suits for $88! Yikes! Well, we did find a place that sold $10 T-shirts there was that I almost was able to find a pair of sweatpants but they were always only in smalls and they were 10 bucks. Anyway, we got a little hungry so we decided to get clam chowder and I got myself a coffee to get myself through the Shopping experience, which wasn’t all bad because of the weather it wasn’t all packed and ridiculous like it usually is we called Alice and she was hungry so we decided we’d head up to the custard hut for a snack, but then it was towards 7:00 PM so it was really time to get some dinner so that’s what we did. It was really glad we did that because otherwise we really had no dinner foods back here at the condo they were staying at. After we hung out there for a while we then heard that the USA game was starting and we went down to the beach and hung out at the beach at 64th St. which was very pleasant. There was fog rolling off the Ocean that was starting to come in and then we saw the sunset. That was very nice. We didn’t get back to the condo and the US was losing two to one to the Belgian and they did play that star player Beacon in the game so it’s a real mixed message going on around these parts. Wellwe got back Belgian third goal was just really sloppy play by the defense and they got an easy goal. Then they finished the US off four – one. It led to a test the exchange in our family text. We kind of laughed about it cause we stayed out of it. And then Mary Allison and I just talked for a while. It’s now 11:11 PM. We have to meet Debbie for a Pilates class at 9:20 AM which is earlier than we’ve been getting up for the last three days. We ended up having a pretty full day considering we started the day doing not much of anything. Plus the US lost four – one there can be no bullshit from the Trump be in the magazine the other idiots that it was rigged or some kind of bullshit that they like the pool and they don’t get their way. It’ll be interesting to go Pilates class after. Not really exercising much at all this week. Alice is gonna go swimming and Dave’s gonna join her at least that’s the expectation for tomorrow.

Sunday, July 5: A Day at the Beach

Well this morning I slept until about noon because I stayed up till about 3 o’clock in the morning talking to Allison and blocking for about 45 minutes. I had to catch up to yesterday‘s blog. There’s a lot to post because it was a very long and eventful day. It was long even though Alice and Mary slept most of the day off. Anyway, today I woke up had cereal. It was decided on a nice sunny day like this. We’d go to the beach beforehand. We had breakfast outside in the porch was which was really cool spot. Alice did a nice drawing and you could hear people talking. It was very relaxing out there. We then got ourselves together and drove to the beach where I dropped them off and found a parking spot about block and a half 2️⃣ blocks away, but at least it wasn’t all the way down to Dave’s to the condo, which is pretty far from the beach compared to back in the day when we lived in Brant Beach where the island island a lot thinner. Anyhow, we hung out at the beach for about 2 1/2 hours or so I didn’t go in the water was cold and I just wanted to sit and relax and that’s what I did. I enjoyed that very much. Dave and Debbie came by to visit, but we didn’t see the kids even though they were pretty close behind us at one point. Anyhow, we got up and I picked them up and then we came back home where we’re all taking showers. We’re gonna meet Dave and Debbie for dinner. The kids are going to eat separately somewhere else. Turns out House wasn’t up for going out to eat. She was tired. I told Dave and Debra were up for it. They didn’t answer so we went down to La Bamba ourselves. We ran into Dave and Deb and the place was disorganized with un bust tables and the lake. So you decided to go to another place that was about two blocks away and we ended up having Mexican food there instead I forget the name of the place we’ve all enjoyed our dinners and we split it four ways and had good decent conversation. After that we took a couple pictures got the car and then decided we’d watch England versus Mexico. It’s now 10 o’clock and it was a hell of a first half England scored two goals about two minutes apart, which never happens in soccer and then Mexico came right back about three minutes after that so it is 2–1 England.