9/11/2016

Weekly Update 9/11/2016

Monday was all about trying to get the condo cleaned. Tuesday, I spent the morning doing errands. And then, LISA WAS HERE!

But before I get into that, I have to write that one of the errands I had to do was to go to the AAA and pickup the final package for the Viking tour Allen and I will be taking in just about 5 weeks. Although this wasn't technically the tickets we needed, there was some important information there: insurance cards, flight information, luggage tags. I wanted Allen to have his packet, so I stopped at the post office on the way back to the condo after picking everything up.

Lisa arrived in the afternoon, and we made plans to meet with Donna and Kay at the Crystal Beer Parlor for supper. It was great to have all the best-ies together again! No one could decide on what to eat, so we got a little of this, a little of that, and ate until we were stuffed. That pretty much was what we did the whole week, and once again, I didn't cook.

Lisa was a big help to me on the Dell. I'm much more comfortable now with finding files and information. And she linked my printer up. One thing we couldn't find was how to add a caption to a photo in the pictures folder. I used to be able to do that on the Toshiba, but we couldn't find a way on the Dell, short of re-naming the file. Any suggestions? We also couldn't buy on-line tickets to the Anne Frank house, but I think that may have been the website issue, not anything we did.

We didn't do much on Wednesday, although Lisa went walking with Kay. Thursday there was a lunch bunch gathering out at Tybee. That was really nice, because I don't know if Lisa would have been able to visit the beach if it had not been for the luncheon. I had a BHS Board meeting at the cemetery in the early evening, which had been postponed from last week because of The Storm. But following that, I met Lisa and Kay at The Rail. Thursdays was always a time for Dave and Lisa to go to happy hour and there, so we continued the tradition.

I honored my regularly scheduled DH schedule on Friday. While I was doing that, Lisa and Donna went to a movie at the community center near MP. Then, they met me at The 90 for a drink and sandwich. That's a tradition that is on-going, and it was fun to have Lisa with us again for that.

Here's photos of some places we ate:

Crystal Beer Parlor

with bartender / friend, Kathy, at the Rail

at The 90

at the Pirates' House

Saturday, Donna had found that there would be a free Art Walk in several galleries and shops in the historic area, so we decided that sounded like fun. We went to the River Street Inn to begin the walk, and then visited a few of the places that they had talked about before they set us free to roam the city streets. It was interesting. None of us bought anything, but it was fun to see all the art. We went to the Pirates' House for dinner – very good, and a nice thing to do with Lisa while she's visiting Savannah.

Sunday, Opening Day for the NFL (if you don't count last Thursday, and I'm sure Cam Newton doesn't want to count it). Of course, since it was the Second Sunday, I had to give a tour at BC. I'm pretty sure Lisa was glad I didn't drag her to Coach's with me for the first half of the Bills game. I have to say I wasn't surprised by the outcome (although I didn't really expect it to be so close), but some other games this week did surprise me.

Although it may seem as if we did a lot and went a lot of places, for the most part I bored Lisa and made her watch a lot of tennis, and some football. We also spent a lot of time at the pool, swimming, talking, relaxing.    

Donna, Lisa & me at the MP pool