Wedding April 15, 1972

Wedding April 15, 1972

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Nothing new

Now I remember why I was so bad at writing in my diary when I was growing up. I have always had a boring life - get up, go to work, go home, make dinner, watch TV, and go to bed.

We are going to Austin's baseball game at 7:15 tonight, and Saturday we're going to the race track with Donna and Stan, after we go out to eat. Pretty exciting.

My knee surgery is scheduled for August 4. I got the results from my nasal swab test today and good news, I don't have MRSA. I thought for sure I did, and they would cancel my surgery. It's not that I'm looking forward to surgery, but I have already made my arrangements with work, and I've looked high and low for a new chair that I will be able to get out of.

Maybe after my stay in the hospital I'll have more to say, or maybe not. Is this better, Krista? You'll have to give me some helpful hints.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Trip to St Pete Beach 2009

Jerry, Monica, Austin and I went to St. Pete Beach June 6 - 10, 2009. We all had a pretty good time. Austin couldn't wait to get there to see the ocean, so we didn't tell him that St Pete was not on the ocean. Once he got into the Gulf, he decided he didn't care too much for it - he got a mouth full of salt water. Jerry talked him into going back in a little later and that time he had a good time. We visited Busch Gardens in Tampa one day, but it was a lot different than it was in 1970 when Mom, Dad, Todd and I were there. There were a couple of kid's areas with rides, so we spent much of the day there. We also rode the train a couple of times. Jerry and Austin were in line waiting to go on the log ride when it started raining. All rides were shut down at that time, they waited for a while, but then we decided to leave. I was ready, because my knees just can't take all the walking.

We had a hard time finding good places to eat. A few of the places we checked out were very expensive, so most of our meals were at Denny's or McDonalds. Austin's favorite place is McDonalds anyway.

Our resort, TradeWinds, had a huge inflated slide on the beach. Monica bought Austin an all-day pass for it and he had a great time.

We had to fly in to and out of Tampa and there was road construction all around, so Jerry wanted to leave for the airport early on the 10th. Well, it didn't take long at all to get there, so we had to spend several hours in Tampa's airport. All and all, we had a good time.