First, Mark and I failed in our quest this year. Every year since the kids were little, we have played the License Plate game. We try to find all 50 states from the start of Memorial Day Weekend through the end of Labor Day Weekend. The kids have long grown up and lost interest in the game; Mark would stop easily; I am obsessed and cannot stop! Most of the time we have found all 50. There was the notable year that we thought we would fail and then found the last one, South Dakota, on Labor Day. This year we failed. We did not find Montana OR Wyoming. Wyoming is a hard one and has caused us to fail in the past. Montana was odd because we have always seen it before.
I must admit that it's harder to do down here in Florida than in the mid-Atlantic right next to a major army base and surrounded my dozens of federal agencies! People usually think it's Hawaii and Alaska that mess us up. Actually, we have always found them, and not just on the years when we were IN those states like this year. We saw Alaska in the Disney parking lots more than once this summer. I'm very glad we went to Hawaii this year because I don't think we would have seen it around here this time.
So...there's always next year.
Second, as I predicted yesterday, most of that weight from Monday night's dinner is gone. 277 yesterday morning and 274.6 this morning. I'm happy. I had a good day, foodwise, yesterday, although no exercise.
Today we are having a BUSY Solivita day. At 10 a.m. we are attending a lecture about what to do with passwords and online accounts after someone passes away. Sounds morbid, but seems like we should know. At noon we are attending a special Fish and Chips luncheon to Honor the Queen with the British Isles club. Today Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British History, passing Queen Victoria who had held that record. We will have a lunch and watch video of all the British hoopla and pageantry that took place this morning in England. I'm actually looking forward to that.
Tonight we have a meeting with all the Travel Club members who are going on the New Year's Eve Cruise this year. That should also be a lot of fun.
Just another day in Solivita.
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