Ugh.
Let's catch up, shall we?
Since we last talked, well, I typed, and a couple of you read.
Here's what I've been up to.
Bought a gun and took a gun class. Been to the shooting range once and I'm not half bad. Been wanting to feel like I could handle an gun and not act like I was part of a demolition team by just picking it up. The circumstances that finally pushed us over the edge was a young pregnant mother murdered in her own home in a nice neighborhood of town. They caught the bastards, but it still scared a lot of women in Indy. Half of the people in the class were women.
Took some sorely needed dance lessons and we still look incredibly stupid, but we have fun and that's all that matters, right?
Made our winter transition down here in Fort Myers right after Christmas. And sadly, we are counting the days to go back to reality. The community down here is amazing, we have so many friends it's very hard to leave, but nearly all of them go home too, so it gets really quiet here.
Planned an amazing trip to celebrate our 25th, which is May 11th. Hard to imagine it's been 25 years. Some good, some bad, but definitely wouldn't change it.
I started "lobbying" for a nice trip for our 25th this time last year. I was thinking Hawaii. Bob kept hem hawing around. His suggestion was to take a cruise. Nice idea, but I knew he was talking the Caribbean where we have been 6 times.
I told him that and said unless you mean an Italian cruise. So he casually asked me which I would rather do, take an Italian cruise or go to Hawaii. I couldn't spit the words our fast enough. Italian cruise. To my utter disbelief he told me to book it.
Well I certainly didn't waste any time doing that.
So we leave May 8th and spend one night in NYC. I know that's not enough, but I want to see Ground Zero since we have never been there before.
Then we fly to Venice to stay 3 nights and hop on the cruise ship which goes to Ravenna, Italy, Kotor Montengro, Corfu, Santorini, Mykanos, and Athens. 10 days in all. Sail back to Venice and stay one night and then head home.
I still can't believe I'm finally getting Bob to Italy. Now here's hoping he catches the bug. The travel bug that is.
Maybe I'll have some pics to share. If I ever blog again. ;)
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That is a dream cruse. We are leaving on Saturday for Fort Lauderdale and an Easter Caribbean cruse. We went on one about 10 years or so. So it will be kinda new to us. Given the choice, Italy sounds great. Becareful where you walk, though. The US dropped some bombs on Italy during WWII but they slid off. So watch your step.
I'll keep that in mind Coffey. Although I'm pretty sure every inch of Venice has been walked on since then. Now Ravenna may be another matter.
Sibling jealousy here.
You are alive and well. That is good. Blog about your adventures.
I had planned on posting something when we got down here and I pulled out he laptop. The IPad is still sucky for blogging. I can type much faster on a keyboard.
So I go fire up the laptop, especially to do our taxes and it would not start. Tried and tried several days, especially since I hadn't backed up last year's tax file, which means I had to start from scratch on TurboTax. At least our taxes aren't as complicated as they used to be, so it only set me back a little.
So the debate now is, do I need to have a new laptop. Looks like I might have a gig teaches some classes at a local university, so I'll probably need one.
And you guessed right. I am alive.
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