Monday, June 18, 2012

Had a wonderful day! Did Nothing! Yea, the luxury of being retired! Did exactly what I wanted to do which was to work on family research!!! SO much to do on it.

Yesterday was Father's Day. No one knows better than me how much it hurts to be ignored on these kinds of days, so instead of buying a card for K. I sent him an email to wake up to yesterday morning advising that the day was his. We were going to go somewhere, do something, and get away from this house. It was his choice where to go.

Ken chose the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, so we went on line and bought tickets to see Titanica at the Omni as well. This was our first visit to the museum since it's renovation a few years ago. SO VERY DISAPPOINTED! It's now nothing but a kids indoor play palace. Very few exhibits, very little to see. None of the many, many windows with exhibits as we used to have. My goodness, it's such a BIG place and so very little in it. We will probably never go back.

We enjoyed the Titanica, but we both commented afterward that we think the James Cameron exploration film is MUCH better. He shows so very much more than what this one does.

Afterward we went to Blackeye Pea for dinner. Yummy. I had the Red, White and Blue salad with grilled chicken with a cup of broccoli cheese soup; K. had the stead and shrimp. All in all it was a relatively good Father's Day.

Just had a text message from Tamara...she and Jason have managed to save a bit of money back and want to go somewhere on vacation and to celebrate their anniversary. They don't drink so thought they might go to Fredericksberg. I told them they would be bored and to go to San Antonio instead. There's lots to do without drinking. So I sent her to look at the SA visitors page and to check out Kayak.com for hotel/motel pricing. They can go to the Alamo and grounds for free, do the river walk for free (they don't have to drink), maybe ride the boat on the river, go to Breckenridge Park, go to the Hyatt to the coffee bar/bagel shop, go to the Mexican Market. And they don't have to stay downtown...they can stay outside of town, drive into town and then ride the shuttles and trolleys. They will have a good time. They deserve it - they work hard.

Not much else going on - we took the day off from job hunting. I just needed a break. Ken has a second interview tomorrow...we'll see how that goes. Yesterday we kinda came to some conclusions about some things we can do to cut expenses. One of them involves unloading this house, but we've been thinking about that for at least 6 years!!! And we think we'll sell the motorhome. We're not using it as we thought we would, and it doesn't appear that we will any time soon. Right now we're paying monthly storage for it plus insurance coverage.

That's about it. Hope Monday was good to you.