Friday Jan 28th

We got up at 8:30 ate some english muffins and juice, then got our coffee and prepared for the day. We have a friend coming through today, we just don't know what time. He used to work for me and his name is Bennie. He called yesterday around 10 and he was in Missouri. He has a sister that lives in Miami, and He and his wife, Valerie, and a Mike are going to run the Miami marathon Sunday. Mike is a kid that used to work for Select Comfort in Iowa city, and he worked for me at the state fair a couple of years ago. The phone rang around 11:30 and it was them. He said they were about 70 miles from Miami, so I told him which exit to take and we would meet them at a gas station right there. So we drove over there and they pulled up about 5 min later.

Bennie and family

Val getting some pictures

Bennie making a move on my wife

We chatted a while and found out Mike and Bennie's kids had never seen the ocean, so off we went to see the beach. It was upper 60's today, so the beach wasn't real crowded.

Mile's first time

They loved the Ocean, Who would't?

We love being with people for their first time seeing the ocean. It was a lot of fun and we hung out until Bennie's sister called worried about why they were not there yet. So we parted ways until Sunday when we are going to Miami to watch them run. Bennie's sister works at the Miami zoo so we are going to the zoo Monday. That should be a lot of fun as we heard the zoo is fantastic.  It was around 3:30 and we were hungry so Bonnie suggested we go to this place called the duck for late lunch. We had a South Florida Dines

coupon for 30 bucks. The only reason we ordered that on was it only cost 10 bucks. We found it and it was a hole in the wall beer joint that served food. I was hoping the food was good.

Bonnie getting sauced

My danish beer

They had beer from all over the world in there so we ordered a couple of carlsbad, made in Denmark. I ordered the fish and chips and Bonnie ordered shrimp scampi. The salad sucked. At least the salad dressing sucked. The food was considerably better. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a 7. We ended up drinking more beer to make our tab good. By the time we left I was half in the bag. Yikes!

We got home and wore our buzzes off. we had to be over the the school by 7 to set up our table. We got over there and had to carry everything about 100 yards from the car to our table. There were quite a few people in there and we were anxious to get set up and out of there.

Sale setup

Our table is toward the back. We have to be there by 7AM tomorrow so I gotta get to bed, Bonnie has been sleeping for 2 hours. She is going to feel great tomorrow and I am gonna be suffering. Later....