I’m picking up my granddaughter from Pre-K at noon and will keep her until we drive to Punta Gorda for our 7p anniversary dinner at The Perfect Caper. She’ll enjoy a ride on the golf cart, that she calls her “go cart.” We’ll go to the playground and hunt for alligators on the elevated boardwalk through the Islandwalk nature preserve. She’ll be five next month when we’re in Egypt. 

We’ve done a lot of dining out and entertaining this week, more than our retirement budget can probably handle. My wife prepared dinner three nights for guests, while I went out to eat twice. Tomorrow night is the neighborhood pitch-in, Saturday evening the bridge club meets with spouses for dinner, and Sunday we’re invited to a neighbor’s home. I will just be getting back from St. Pete and the White Sox game against the Rays. Monday is another lunch for me with a friend down the street.  

Once these next few weeks are over, the neighborhood population will shrink in size as folks head north for the summer. We’ll leave for our Egyptian tour, and when we get back in late May things should be quiet on our street, except for our Indy 500 party for those still around. We’ll have my wife’s June birthday to celebrate after she flies to Indy for a bridal event. Tally and I get to stay home until Portland in mid-July and the actual Indianapolis wedding in late August. 

We’re trying to decide on a travel plan to Indiana and the stops we’ll make there and back in August. It will be about the same cost to drive there instead of airline and rental car expenses. The Louisville Slugger museum is a possibility and maybe Hilton Head on the way home. We’ll soon get out the map and plot a course.