Another week is gone.

I'll start with the Weigh-in Wednesday report.  I'm 267.6, which is reasonable.  It's one pound down from the official report of three weeks ago.  In between, I have fluctuated up as much as 3 pounds and down one lower than this.  It's fine considering all the events, travel, and eating out that has occurred.

Cove Singers choir rehearsals started yesterday for me and Mark.  I had a blast.  They are such nice people and starting to sound pretty good together!  They are definitely doing harder music now than they ever did before.  I'm proud of them and happy to be their director.

Today we are going to the Outback in Plant City to meet Mark's cousin (by marriage) for lunch.  Mindy was Mark's cousin Robert's wife.  Robert died of brain cancer a few years ago.  Now their daughter, a lawyer, is fighting breast cancer.  She is only 29 and just had a double mastectomy and is now undergoing chemo.  This is so tough for Mindy to bear.  Her mother, who lives in Boca Raton, is also fighting a rare form of cancer.  Her son, Craig, is a doctor.  He's the one who had his wedding in the Disney Wedding Pavilion a few years ago, unfortunately it was shortly after his dad passed away.

Craig is a doctor in the Clearwater/Tampa area, so Mindy and her daughter have moved into that same area.  They used to live on Long Island.  We have been wanting to get together with her for a long time, and today it's finally happening!

We had a good time at the funeral, if that's possible.  Flyn and I had some good times together.  We even found the old boatyard where Daddy had his boat for most of our teen years.  We had a lot of good memories at the boatyard, so as we realized that it was close to the house where we were going for lunch after the funeral, we made a detour to the boat yard on the way.  Here are a few pictures of that day.

Mark and I sent a flower basket that was placed right next to the  casket.

Me with two of Irene's granddaughters, Heather Duke on the left and Loretta Burdette on the right.  These are two awesome ladies.

Me and my sister Flyn.

At the boatyard!  I put this one on Facebook and labeled it "Two old ladies reliving their childhood memories."

At Seasons 52 with Emily and Lowell.

We have been to SeaWorld since the last time I posted a blog, so here are a few pictures from that day.  We had a half price Dining with Shamu package that included a private whale show.  I never finished putting up pictures from our cruise, but I'll put some more of them up tomorrow.  i promise.

Mark with Al and Barbara entering the buffet.

We had great seats right next to this tank.

This tank holds four pilot whales that were rescued and cannot go back into the wild.

Each of the four whales has a personal trainer, so they fed them and talked about their care.

After that, we were all moved into the Shamu theater for a private show right up close!

The four of us only three rows back from the show area!  We usually don't sit here because it's the  Splash Zone!

Such big, beautiful animals.

Demonstrating how they let the the doctors take blood from their tail flukes.

Demonstrating how they breathe out hard on command to test their lungs.

Then we had fun at the Pets Ahoy show, which we all love.

Posing on the way out.