Made a quick trip over to West Palm for Easter weekend. Here are some "highlights":
- Saturday morning, Roxy ate about 6 lbs of chicken all at once and then walked around looking sick, making me think she had bloat.
- Dad & I took the dogs for a long walk around the neighborhood.
- Went down to where Tina & family (mom: Dora, sister: Norma, daughters: Kathryn & Aryn) were staying in Boca with Norma's son, Eric & his new wife Martine. The plan was to all go out boating. Major drama the evening before ended up with both Eric & Martine storming out (they were fighting with each other), leaving the rest stuck without transportation, house keys or even computer access! Change of plans!
- Tina, Kathryn and I ended up going down to Las Olas in Ft. Lauderdale. Went to lunch, and did one of those boat cruises around "millionaire row" since the other boating was out. (By the end, I mostly just felt sorry for the millionaires. All these beautiful properties with luxury pools, etc right on the water - and tourists floating by with loudspeakers detailing how much they'd paid for the house and all the scandals attached to their family 3x a day.)
- Colored lots of Easter eggs with mom, dad & Gail Saturday evening to take to church for the brunch they were having.
- Forgot to take the Easter eggs to church; Roxy & Romeo had their very own Easter Egg hunt while we were gone.
- Had delicious Easter lunch, courtesy of Boston Market catering. Original idea was to avoid making a big meal. Somehow coordinating all the elements of heating the ham (90 minutes!) and transferring the sides to their appropriate dishes and then coordinating the timing...it was not as easy as advertised. Still it was very tasty.
- Happened to mention to Mom that I was looking at buying a bike and discovered that Chris rehabs bikes! Went with Dad to look at them & ended up getting a beautiful 1960s one, complete with bell & speedometer! He is still fixing it up so Mom & Dad are bringing it over in a few weeks. Cannot wait!
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oh i love the photo at the top of your blog. how great!
i laughed out loud picturing roxy & romeo eating lots of eggs while you guys were at church. awesome...did it make them sick?
and who is chris? i can't wait to see your bike! is getting one that way still cheaper than buying a new one? or is it more about the character of it for you?
our easter was kind of mellow--i made all the food ahead of time so all i had to do was heat it up (sounds like it was less of an ordeal than yours...haha) and we went to sam & emily's church in south tampa with rick's parents. and then the kids spent the rest of the day begging for and foaming at the mouth for candy...(sigh)
No, we probably wouldn't have even noticed that they'd done it were it not for the trail of eggshells leading to their 2 spots of choice: the couch for one and the dog bed for the other.
Chris is a friend of my parents. He owns a business doing contracting but that's been slow lately. Yeah, it is definitely cheaper, I think. He has about 50 and they ranged in price from about $45-$70 for most. Racing bikes were a little more (low 100s). I think you can probably find ones around here on craigslist for about the same.
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