What else?....ALASKA!!!!!

Here's the great thing about life...there are always places to visit! I love that!!!

So in a few weeks, I'll be heading to Alaska... I'm going to need a few more names because there are 10 of us going! So excited!!!!

Is this on your bucket list? It is absolutely on mine... more to come!

The Greatest Goodbye

Today ... and most of this week.... My beautiful hometown hosted The Greatest Goodbye for The Greatest of All Time. There are only a few things that Muhammad Ali and I share but our hometown is one of them. I didn't get to participate in the ceremonies but my town did well and I am proud to be a native Louisvillian.

Family Trip? Or Family a Trip?

It's late on Monday and we're all still kicking! It's my regular Florida vacation with Ratac but we added a few folks.

R and I were planning and he suggested that we bring my mother with us since she would have been recovered from her knee surgery for several months. She was all for it.

Later my cousin CaliBornAndRaised messaged me to find out when we were coming down - since she only lives 15 miles from where we stay. Once she knew the dates, she coordinated with her sister - theVoiceOfReason - and they ended up renting the condominium next door to ours. So she has been able to bring my Mom's sister - GiftedGabber - with them. Along the way, my cousin- ManAboutTown - called to see if he could come along. So we are all here - all 7 of us taking FL by storm! 

It's great because GiftedGabber is 85 now and will be 86 in November, Lord willing and my mom is 82 now. They and my uncle, LadiesMan - are the only kids left in a family of 11 kids. My uncle couldn't come and we were all disappointed but we had to get over it...

We ate at some great restaurants... Petrillo's Italian, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen and a few others.

We visited the Sebastian Inlet, the Sea Turtle Preservation Society and of course I got some Ingress in during the week.

It was a lot to manage with 7 people, but we did it.

Me, BeautyISee, GiftedGabber, CaliBornAndRaised, theWiseOne, theVoiceOfReason and ManAboutTown...love my Family!

It was 1965....

So this is the year of the 50th birthday! I am in Chapel Hill, NC celebrating with the Native New Yorker. I've already had mine and next will be GoodHeart's turn. We are making 50 look great. It's great to get to though!!!!

My friends ... Spesh and TrueSister  ... are with me. We are heading home after a great time! Sad to go... 

Life of the Wild

Up early this morning..figure that.

The wellness challenge at work is about sleep this month and I am doomed to fail even on vacation. We are supposed to get 7 hours a night and that never happens for me! I think I went to bed about 1AM and I was up at 6AM like it was nothing.  Better morning response than when I'm at home and need to go to work! I've already had my breakfast and sat on the patio watching the wildlife.

Every year we come here there is some wildlife that is the one we see more than others... one year it was crabs walking across the streets, one year it was love bugs, another it was the blue jellyfish...always something.

This year it's DOLPHINS!!!!! I'm so excited! There were about 10 of them out this morning and yesterday afternoon we saw two over on the river side by the park. They are just out there playing...

So of course thoughts run through my head...

• I guess dolphins don't sleep? I guess no fish do. 
• I've been sleep all night - lazy human - and they've been swimming
• What makes the morning the best time for them to have fun?
• Will this be a pattern I'll see all week? 

It's just so cool...I can'd wait for R to get some really good pictures with his good camera. But that might be tomorrow because he's a lazy human and hasn't even stirred yet!

P.S. Dragonflies are the other - less exciting - prominent wildlife right now. So far they are cool too...they don't bother me, so they can stay. 

The Games We Play....

First full day in Indialantic and I was determined to do one thing...level up! It worked! I am now level 6 in Ingress and I'll have to do everything I've already done again to get a level 7! Ugh...I saw someone posted on the COMM that they were "over level 7" and I think I already am and I haven't even gotten there yet.

We had already been shopping yesterday, so there was truly nothing to do but work on our game. We went out about 12PM and stayed out until almost 3PM. Then we came back, had lunch and made a new plan to make several control fields in 3 areas. The plans didn't always work out, but we got good points and covered the city in blue!

It's crazy that while we were on one side of town making new fields, someone was back where we'd just been blowing the previous ones up.

Don't know why I think this is so much fun...but it is! I know that TheNewGirl probably thinks I'm crazy, lol...that's more than likely true.

The red dots show our fields! 

Puppies and Railroad Ties

Se we are off to FL again...now this is what I call vacation. Getting into full vacation mode by already being unable to complete sentences in conversation!

It took me a bit longer to get to Lexington than normal. Since I had to run through Versailles to hack and claim a few portals. I didn't leave home til almost 5 there was traffic after Frankfort and that led me to  turn around and go through Versailles. I got to the house about 8. 

The dogs were all happy to see me. Mabel was her calm "excited but I'm not going to lick you" self. Wiley was the young apprehensive puppy that he is but that Felix! He barked and talked to me and even managed to get tangled up in the folds of my sundress. He is a character for sure.

It is 3am and we just had a bit of a run in with what might have been a railroad tie. R is driving and we ran over something that was all the way across the road. Not sure what it was but he said it looked like it would do major damage - I was looking down at the phone and never even saw it! - so we pulled off the road and into a lit parking lot to check it out. We heard a strange noise as we slowed down but didn't see anything or hear anything in the parking lot. We got back on the road and we started to hear a small whirring sound but nothing about the car wasn't working. 

We press on.....