Summer Travel Plans

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Workin’ at the Car Wash

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go. First, Working at the Car Wash. Yeah! Our itinerary includes, Dayton, Rochester, Toronto, Ann Arbor and the Soo. Here’s hoping that the warmth and friendship that we bring with us and meet along the way can be carried to the cabin, because it is freaking cold there now.

  • Dayton – Air Force Museum (At Wright Pat also-known-as Boeing East) Normally, we would stay with Max, Joanie’s sister, around Columbus (Home of the running start high jumping beds), but she will be in the Lou filling up on Spam-Spam-Spam-a-lot.
  • Rochester – Brian’s wedding, son of Alice and Chris. Bob and Noreen will be there and since we will be in the neighborhood, hopefully we will see Bruce and Kim too. I will try not to get drunk, start a fight or get arrested, but still have some fun. Congrats! to the bride and groom!!
  • Toronto – Tourism, downtown hotel, art museums, attractions galore, all at a 35% discount. Hopefully, they are still our friendly neighbor to the north.
  • Ann Arbor – The land of Reggies with Harry (99 this year), Jane and Jay.
  • Soo – Melted permafrost, flooding, mosquitos everywhere if the wind is not blowing up a gale, roaring fires or freezing cold, state-of-the-art 19th-century living, with Wi-Fi. New water heater, powder posties exterminated or at the very least heartedly annoyed. 

Pedicure

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Sharon Colored Nails

We are going to a wedding this weekend. So, Anne got her toes painted. Aren’t they lovely? Earlier, back in Monterey she also found a new to her dress at Nice Women’s Consignment Boutique. It looks like the weather will even cooperate this weekend with her wardrobe selection. 

Here is a little link to a throwback video game, Epic Furious. You can die in it and since you’re playing the President maybe that’s a victory after all. Try it!

Octopuses

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The Outsider, Phillip Singer

Octopuses seem to be having a moment now or maybe it is just me. There is the recent film Remarkably Bright Creatures, which dropped just last week. Featuring an octopus and a couple lonely humans, it is a sweet sentimental movie that was a joy to watch. Before that a Japanese archeologist had announced his discovery of giant cretaceous octopuses. He found their fossilized beaks embedded in ocean floor nodules that had to be microplaned apart to find. Earlier this year, when we were in Monterey, where we went to their aquarium. We closed it that day, but before we did the Giant Pacific Octopus that lives there came out of hiding and interacted with the few humans still around. A few years ago, I was scuba diving in the Virgin Islands and with the help of our guide, saw an octopus in the wild. Finally, harkening all the way back to childhood, I owned an octopus or at least its remains. It was small, a little over an inch and had been dried. A little bit gross but fascinating still. 

Sleeping White-Colored Octopus Under a Rock