I got up early and after a shower and shave went to the lounge
at 6:30 AM where I had a cold toast sandwich with egg and
sausage, fruit and a muffin and coffee while I read my book.
Later in the morning after a safety talk about the skiffs and
other water vessels we went down to a brunch which was a ham
sandwich wrap with bacon and optionally eggs, etc. It was a
very nice brunch. After lunch we took our skiff tour with
Heather as our driver at 2:20 PM. As a bonus our Ornithologist
Karen came along with us. We saw Frigates, Boobies, pelicans and
other birds. Karen was helpful in supplying trivia about the
bird species. Once we got back we heard about tormoorows
activities. Libbie and i had a couple of rum punches
accompanied by totilla chips, plantain chips and a delicious
salsa. Libbie had the guac which was freshly made and
outstanding. For dinner tonight we had Snapper in a peach
ginger with potatoes and accompanied by a glass of Cabernet. We
had the chocolate Biscotti in a creme de cafe sauce which capped
the meal off wonderfully. After dinner we got an excellent
overview of the national parks of Panama and Costa Rica that we
are going to visit. The presenter was a Costa Rican woman who did an
outstanding job selling her country.

After a very nice hotel breakfast we settled our bill with the
desk for 2 charges - one for the Moijitos last night and one for
dinner the night before. We checked our bags into Uncruise
hospitality on the 4th floor. We then called an Uber and got a
ride out to Panama Viejo.

Our driver first took us to an old ghetto area then found we
wanted to go to Panama Viejo. He then entered Panama Viejo into
his GPS and took us to the correct place. The ruins are just
that, ruins. We only bought Park admission and skipped the
museum. We walked around a while, read some of the signs then
called for another Uber to take us back. This time I requested
an English Uber and got Juan Diego. He was an excellent
conversationalist. I ended up tipping him $5 for the $5 ride.
We got back to the hotel and filled out passport papers then
waited. Finally the bus was loaded outside the hotel for the
long ride to Colon. There was an accident on the North Way, an
overturned Cement Truck. We finally got going and got to our
boat where we disembarked. At the top of the gang plank our
greeter was Heather from our Alaska tour. What a surprise. The
bartender was also from the Alaskan boat, Daniel.

We got boarded by a fantastic Canal Pilot. Each boat is required to
have a pilot. our guy has 44 years experience and can captain large
cargo ships or Nuclear submarines.

We had a buffet dinner on the deck with plenty of wine. I had a
slider with salad and veggies. Later I got a second Bean burger
slider. Dessert was an ice cream bar where I had chocolate ice
cream topped with berry sauce and some coconut and fruit. Wow.

The canal transit was very cool. What fun to see the
locomotives attached via cable on each side to keep us centered.
I did movies and pictures through all three locks on the
Atlantic side. I fell asleep but woke at 2 AM to see the last
of the lock transit. I made it through the first 2 but fell
asleep for the third. It was 3:30 AM.

We started the day by going to the 5th floor lounge restaurant for breakfast.. Wow, a beautiful buffet of delicious foods. I had the bacon, sausage, eggs and ham and a pancake. Delicious. For dessert the fruit was perfection. It's all included with the room, a nice surprise.
We got an English speaking Uber driver to take us to the Main Square in Casco Viejo for the historic part of the city.. Met an old (81 years old) Panamanian who wanted to be our tour guide. He kept following us around.

We did quite a bit of walking admiring the architecture of Casco
Viejo. We did a walk around the Panamanian Minister of Culture
building. The sea wall around the building had a Bougainvillea
vine covering the walk way under which panamanian artisans were
selling their wares. Libbie stopped at most of them and admired
the stitch work. On the way back from the end we stopped at a
gentleman who said all the Mollas were sewn by his mother. The
stitch work was fine with tiny little stitches and i liked the
non traditional Pink Hummingbird. After a while we were really
tired and started looking for a restaurant that was air
conditioned where we could have a beer. On the way back to
Independancia Square we found an awning that said Heineken and a
chalk board that advertised beer.

We had lunch in this little pub a few hundred feet from
Independencia Square. Balboa Beer was $2 a bottle, we had 4
bottles. The place was air conditioned and it felt great to sit
down and also do a pit stop. We ordered a Margerhita Pizza. I
wasn't expecting much and was quite surprised it was oven hot
with a risen dough crust that clearly was baked. The pizza was
very tasty. Lunch for 2 with 4 beers including tip was $25.

i wanted to see the Fish market so we started walking back that
way. WE encountered an artist selling watercolors who didn't
speak English. After quite a bit of trying to figure each other
out we found his painting was only $15 for an original
watercolor. We bought one and went to the Fish market. I never
was able to find the place that had the raw fish for sale. i
wanted some pictures of all the fish varieties. We left there
and made our way to a bus stop and tried to call Uber. Two
different drivers didn't show up when they were supposed to. I
canceled the first, the second never showed. Uber charged us a
$4 cancellation fee. We walked quite a bit in the heat up to
the Metro line and ordered another Uber. We got a very pretty
young Panamanian woman named Diayana. She was great and
patiently took us in her cold little car to our hotel in the
heavy traffic. It was a great end to the day.

In the evening I found a nearby restaurant offering traditional
Panamanian folk dance at 9 PM. We went to the hotel desk and
had them make us a reservation for 8:30. The restaurant was
Tinajas. I ordered the Corvina which came with rice and beans.
We had a bottle of Chilean Cabernet with dinner. We split a
carrot cake. Libbe liked it, I wasn't keen on it. There was a
$10 cover charge for the show which I didn't mind. The dancing
to a live band was outstanding and made it a very memorable and
happy night. After the show the girls came down to get audience
members. I was chosen and gladly went up with the girl to dance.
I did or tried to do Salsa. I followed along clapping with her.
It was a lot of fun. I spoke with a young lady at the next
table who was talking English. I asked where she was from and
she said north Carolina. Shockingly asked her where and she
replied Durham. They were a group of college girl exchange
students based in Costa Rica. Small world. We walked back on
the dimly lit street with incredibly poor or nonexistent
sidewalks.

Up at 3:45 this morning and left the house at 4:15. Used the Park and Relax and then over to Terminal 2 where our 6:15 flight was late because the pilot was late. He had to go back home to get his credentials for security. We had a Brueggers bagel with cream cheese for breakfast at the airport. The changeover in Miami was quick but Libbie had to go back a few gates to our incoming plane to retrieve her Nook she left behind.
We went through customs, got photographed and fingerprinted before being met by our ride. He was a pleasant guy who spoke English. At the Hotel we were greeted by the doorman who took our bags up to our room and showed us the room. We went out to walk the neighborhood, found some lunch in a cafeteria type place where we had fish, rice and plantain. Walked next door to a market and bought a $2 Sim card and a $5 data plan. What a great deal. Called an Uber o go to the Mira Flores locks and lucked out. We had an excellent English speaking guy who told us a lot about the city. He was worth his weight in gold.
I enjoyed the locks and actually saw a few ships going through. We watched the movie then could not get an Uber back. Instead we took a cab for $20 after some negotiation. It took over an hour to get back to the Bristol.
We decided to have dinner at the hotel. We each had the Sea Bass with potatoes. Presentation was over the top. A bottle of Pinot complemented the meal. Cost with tip was $116. We shared a key lime pie dessert which came with a delicious meringue topping. Yumm!!!

Worked in the morning and finally got the update loaded for First Class for Android. What a pain.
We had our Tango lesson with Robert which was quite fun and very good. I learned a lot about Tango. When we got back I packed my suitcase for the trip tomorrow. Our flight to Panama leaves at 6:15 AM, Dinner otnight was a trip to La Cocina. I was expecting a Mariachi band but it was not to be. Too bad, I had 2 beers and a Quesadilla La Cocina along with too many chips and Salsa.

This was a slow day. Libbie had some pics she wanted put on the dB, it took a while for her to get passwords straightened out so I could get the pics. There's a lot to do before we leave. Because we already did the groceries at Walmart yesterday I didn't need anything in Kroger today. I made a trip to Best buy and picked up a bracket set for the Sonos Play Bar under the TV. I hung it but do not like the way it hangs crooked. I need to mount the screws higher up on the vertical bracket which iwll require drilling a hole. I really like the sonos system other than that. For dinner we had a simple salad with egg, cucumber and some pepper rings. I put too much pickled pepper in mine. it had a lot of vinegar taste. Next time I'll know better. Spent some time researching Panama and printing out a few maps and guides, specifically for the bus and Metro and the name of the bus from Albrook Mall to Mira Flores locks. Uber looks inexpensive for a trip to Casco Viejo. I learned about Smashwords and purchased an armchair guide which was pretty disappointing. There was some grammatical errors and the woman is an ugly American - she knows nothing about travel except from her cruise ship.

I had a hearing test this morning at Costco. I was impressed with how complete it was. The bottom line is that my hearing is quite good surprisingly. I learned a few things as well such as the fact that we can bypass the ear canal and hear through bone conduction. She placed a transducer against my skull and I could hear the tones! I also was treated to an onscreen view of my inner ear. My hearing is above the normal line. She nicely drew the various levels of hearing impairment on my chart. After lunch Libbie and I went to Walmart and got the CU recommended suntan lotion and also picked up paper towels, toilet paper and soup which was 1.36 per can. this is excellent compared to 2.19 per can in Kroger. I nicely got a seemingly accurate calculation of dewpoint by using the floating point temp and humidity instead of integer. It worked nicely and puts out dewpoints within a few tenths of the numbers reported by the console to Wunderground. I may have to get a second moteino or maybe an anarduino. One would feed Cuulus web software and the second would feed an ESP8266 to create MQTT packets for crawl space control. Dinner was spaghetti with cheese sprinkled over the top.

After the morning programs I worked a little on the Davis reception program, trying to get the Dew Point calculations working. I next went outside and raked up the piles of pine straw that Libbie created when she raked the Mondo Grass and the driveway. I then tackled the electric fence which is in bad shape. It was probably taken down by an animal running through. I patched it up and also filled the hole developing under the charger which was under the big dogwood tree. I need to find more pole insulators since I'm out. Came back inside and practiced rhythms on the Clarinet. Later i found a good youtube video to improve rhythm that i need to try. I may be bringing this on my tablet somehow. Libbie made her excellent pizza for dinner. After dinner I worked on listing the newest Library DVD which is the lecture of Debbie McInnis and Ben Haning. I did this while Traviata played from the Met's Sunday program, Met on Record.

I gave Lib our traditional anniversary 8x10 photo before going out to my 9 AM Clarinet lesson with Justin. I'm still having big time issues with hitting the note exactly on the metronome mark. One of the issues is the metronome is not loud enough. The Clarinet drowns out the sound from the smartphone. Justin recommended finding a louder one. Vicki called at 10, we talked quite a while about her looking for a new home and also about music. Ryan plays Clarinet and Rob plays guitar.
I fired up the smoker at 11 AM and put the ribs in along with Hickory chips that I kept refilling for the first 3 hours.
I got the Moteino correctly receiving iSS transmissions and also reading the onboard sensors I got the pressure to be correct by correcting for altitude. Now i need to get it all into a packet for response by the weather program Cumulus. The original purpose was to create MQTT packets of the dew point for the crawl space ventilation controller now I can see this as a feed for Cumulus.
I pulled the ribs at 6:30 then we had them for dinner along with Broccoli and Rodney Strong Cabernet. After dinner we drove to Brewsters at 8 PM and had a chocolate Raspberry truffle in a waffle cone. I found that all of Brewsters ice cream is made in the store. This is hard to believe.

The Moteino came this afternoon. It was supposed to come yesterday. I fired it up and was able to get some transmissions from the Davis ISS but could not fully pursue it do to dinner and then dance.
For dinner we had a salad with cucumber, tuna and red pepper. I dressed it with Creamy Italian. We went to the studio at 8 for the Friday night party. We did quite a bit of dancing and got to do our Tango routines a few times. I'm getting the hang of it. After dancing we went down Tryon Rd to Walnut St where there is a brewery named "Craft". I ordered an Oak Amber craft beer and we split a chicken Quesadilla. I liked the Quesadilla but the beer tasted a little weak.

Nancy was here in the morning so I didn't get to practice until afternoon. That wa sit for today since later we had to go to downtown Apex for CBC at wine and vine. i'm not sure how a wine bar is supposed to make it here but there seemed to be a lot of young pretty women sitting at tables in the front of the venue. Melanie did a nice job of leading group lessons during the evening. I had a glass of wine and a beer. The wine is pricey at $13 per glass. We split a cheese Panini for dinner which came with chips. The Panini had goat cheese, american cheese and Pepperoncini between 2 slices of bread. During the afternoon I made a trip to Costco and picked up a bottle of wine and bag of coffee. The prime purpose of the trip was to get a hearing appointment. I'm signed up for 2:30 on Monday afternoon.

I did some more reading about the Davis ISS and also took a walk in the back along the fence line. There are numerous trees that need cleaning up in the back. In addition, the pond maintenance crews trimmed all their trees and threw the cuttings over the fence onto our property. I threw it back. We continued our tango lessons with Robert. We practiced the right side fan some more and got some tips then did a run move to cover ground. It was a great lesson as usual. i came home for a short while then went out again at 5:25 for my 6 PM music Clarinet lesson. We spent the lesson on rhythm. Apparently i was missing metronome beats either starting early or coming in late, especially towards the end of a line of music. We also tried the bottom scale which involves all 10 fingers on keys. This clearly needs practice. i paid for 3 lessons. The lesson for today, next Sat at 9 and then Wed at 3:30 which is a mistake because we have dance lessons at 3:30. We picked up broccoli in Kroger on our way home from dance. Dinner was chicken, broccoli, rice and Curry sauce accompanied by the leftover Trader Joe Shiraz. The Playbar arrived while i was at my Clarinet lesson. It was bigger and heavier than I thought. I have to rethink the mounting since I originally was thinking of hanging it off the TV mount. I feel this would be too much weight so i'll probably bolt it to the wood board. I unpacked it after dinner and went through the setup. I'm very impressed with Sonos and how they thought of everything in the design including programming it to work with my existing remote.

Getting back into the swing of things again. I took a trip to do the groceries at Kroger. Picked up some fixings for dinner tonight. I studied intercepting Davis ISS transmissions for use in the crawl space venting system. I need to get some old clothes on and crawl under the house to inspect the moisture issues to see if regrading the front porch worked. Dinner tonight was a salad with tuna, cucumber, raisins and Creamy italian dressing. Tracking is showing my Sonos Playbar will be here tomorrow. The Weber grease pan came from the Honey Roaster today. The old one rusted out and was probably destroyed by an animal. The new one was an exact fit although a little pricey at $25. It's good to see that Weber parts are readily available. I have rebuilt various parts of that grill many times over the past 15 or more years.

The Sonos soundbar I ordered last night was shipped from Nashville this evening. I thought long and hard about spending so much on a TV surround system but in the end I thought it was for the better since we don't really use the existing sound system. FedEx delivered Libbie's passport from RushMyPassport.com. We mailed her passport on xx/yy. I continued to practice Clarinet - twice today. Justin texted that he has a cancellation for Wed at 6 PM so I took it. Dinner was spaghetti with cheese. We had Sonos playing a 1958 Trovatore from the Met on 3 of the speakers - Family Room, Master bedroom and Office all streaming from Sirius. Sirius streaming may be a keeper. It's on a 30 day free trial, I'll have to call in early April when we get back from Costa Rica to cancel the trial and add streaming to my existing subscription.

IT's a quiet day and not much activity. I did a lot of reading, then did a trip to Lowes to get a bird house and a ballast. Replaced the ballast in one shelf of the plant towers and also installed a new birdhouse in the turnaround to replace the one that fell apart due to weather. The new one was cheaper but made of cedar and also 1/2 inch smaller in all dimensions. Hopefully it will work. The peat cup will not fit inside. Libbie made her pizza which was excellent. It's been a long time since we had her pizza. It came out well.

Went out in the rain at 8:40 and drove to my Clarinet lesson on Chatham Street in Cary. The lesson was the first and was scheduled at 9 AM. I barely got there at 9. I'll try to leave at 8:30 next time. This time I actually had an instructor with a Clarinet!!!!! He was able to pick out some problems with my playing, specifically my tonguing technique. I am not starting the note with tonguing but am cutting it off with tonguing. He said I am humming the notes out which is incorrect. I'll need to focus on this. He had a little tuner that determined that I was using the wrong barrel with the mouthpiece. I switched barrels and lowered the pitch a little but still not a 440 C. I like his little electronic tuner. He gave me some pointers on reed placement and also mouth position on the mouthpiece as well. I need to practice this.
On the way home the rain let up a tiny bit. I stopped at Brueggers and picked up bagels then stopped at Kroger for cream cheese.
Before lunch Libbie and I went back to Kroger and picked up shrimp and snow peas for dinner.
I enjoyed listening to William Tell from the Met while reading Literotica on my computer. I had to go back to Kroger after the opera and pick up cocktail sauce. We had Shrimp, snow peas in soy sauce with bell peppers, and basmati rice. Accompanying this was the leftover Cupcake Cabernet and then a few glasses from two buck chuck Shiraz. After dinner I did some more reading and saving stories to Google Sheets.

I did some picture management this morning and also studied hardware for Home Automation some more. I can't get the Sonos app to read the Traviata file share. Not sure what's wrong there. It says error 900 when I click on it. This error is a server stack size error which involves editing the Win 7 registry on Traviata and then doing a reboot.
I did some reading on Literotica which seems to be higher quality than ASSTR and also older adults than the mostly teen types on ASSTR. I only got in one practice today in the morning on the Clarinet. I have a 9 AM appointment with Justin tomorrow in Cary at Leechford Studio on Chatham St.
We had a dinner of salad greens, cucumber, and egg which was topped with the leftover pork stir fry. We left for dance before 8 and got there around 8 PM which was surprising. I was so cold i was shivering. I need to do something to warm up. The studio attendance was surprisingly light tonight. I'm not sure why. Met a woman there, Laurie, who started dancing in October. I danced a Rumba with her. We tried our new Tango routine but failed pretty badly. After dance we went out with the Cains and Harry to BJs Brewery in Crossroads. Libbie and I split a flatbread appetizer covered with bacon, tomato, cheese and avocado. I had a Jeremiah Red with it which was a craft beer with 7.5% alcohol. Yikes! Pretty high but delicious.

Nancy came over this morning after I finished my first Clarinet practice of the day. She brought the Amazon bird books which I had delivered to her house because we weren't sure if we would be home. She said Coleman regularly finds Clarinets in the flea market and got one for Lisa and her brother Tom. Who knew all these people played Clarinet? I watched some YouTube videos about google voice control using Tasker and ended up buying Tasker for 2.99 in the Play store. I had a second practice after lunch and worked on my Mrs Robinson story some more before class.
I'm not very impressed with B2R. The instructor was late, had a sax instead of Clarinet and wasn't very familiar with the Clarinet. He forgot it had holes instead of keys, was clueless about reeds and wasn't very helpful about tonguing, key fingering and Clarinet reeds. To make matters worse the policy of B2R is monthly recurring payments on the first of each month. They had the gall to assess me $20 for materials for my first lesson. There were no materials received by me. The story when I talked to them Tuesday was supposed to be $28 per half hour lesson. This somehow tuned into $90 for this month and $140 for next. Bullshit! I sent emails to a music teacher in Cary and one in Raleigh.
Dinner was great. Libbie made pork chops, snow peas and bell pepper stir fry which we had with Cupcake Cabernet I sampled and then bought in Kroger.
The Sirius streaming over Sonos kept shutting off. I found in the logs that it was intentional because more than one device was streaming. I grouped the two Sonos devices in party mode and this seemed to help.

This was still a day of getting it together after our trip yesterday. We unpacked the rest of the suitcases while Libbie got a load of laundry going. It's pretty cold outside. I chose to have my oil changed and tires rotated instead of doing it myself. I made a 10:30 appointment at Hendricks and drop the car off. When i picked it up they had another $850 worth of service they said it needed. Other than the battery some day, none of it seemed necessary.
We left for our 2:45 dance lesson and learned a few new steps in Tango. I also bought 10 more lessons since Robert said we only had 4 left. Their policy is to warn us when we get below 5 lessons. Our Tango step was called a right fan. It had two possible endings. We could just do it once forward or we could do a second which turned us around in which case we have to do a second and then a basic to rotate us back the correct direction. Dinner tonight was a salad with egg and cucumbers. I got a 30 day trial Sirius streaming Subscription instead of changing my Ala Carte Plan to all music with streaming which raises the price from 10.50 to 18.50. At the end of 30 days I'll make the switch. I put the Play 3 speaker in the Family Room with Sirius streaming and then a Play-1 in our bedroom. With this configuration we listened to Romeo and Juliet live from the Met. While this was going on i worked on my Mrs Robinson story. I practiced Clarinet today for the first time on Downing place. I have a lesson tomorrow at 2:30. I'll see how I like the instructor or whether I should dump Back 2 Rock overboard.

Up early in the hotel this morning. We had breakfast at 6:30 AM. They were out of eggs and sausage but I got the attendant to replenish. The same person is also covering the front desk. It was not a great breakfast and to make it worse, the coffee tasted like instant. We got going around 7:30 and stopped at Walterboro for gas and coffee. Libbie got a biscuit that was the worst ever at a McDonald's. The bacon wasn't even cooked and the biscuit was mushy. The coffee was OK. Next stop was the Pilot at exit 170 in Florence to top off the tank. The sun came out and the sky turned blue on the trip. We got home at 12:20. After unloading the car and having soup for lunch I got to work on my passport but as I got going, Andrea called and talked quite a while. I finally got all my stuff together, called rushmypassport.com and got my shipping label and authorization letter. I took all this to Fedex in Cary and mailed it. On the way back I stopped in Kroger and got the Tuesday groceries. While there I stopped into Bach2Rock. They tried to shove me off on a guy who was not a Clarinet player. I'm unhappy with this. I'll see what happens when I get the Clarinet guy who it turns out plays Sax, not Clarinet.
During the day Robert texted us to see how we're doing. Libbie called him back and set up a lesson for Wednesday at 2:45 PM.
Tonight dinner was spaghetti with cheese topping.
Late tonight I received an eMail from B2R setting up an account in my name and an appointment/lesson with Alan on Thursday at 2:30 PM. The first lesson is free.

We packed up the apartment this morning. Libbie scrubbed and cleaned everything. I made many trips to the car carrying the suitcases and boxes of household stuff including the speakers, the kitchen stuff, showes, camera, computer, Oranges, bike batteries, tubs of electronic parts and other stuff. I had to make a run to Costco to get gas. It was 2.08 per gallon, member price. We loaded the bikes as our last items then left the condo at 11:30 AM. Traffic was surprisingly heavy up I-75 and also on 301. We chose to go around Jacksonville by taking 301 all the way to Callahan. This wasn't too bad since the road was mostly 4 lane and 65 MPH except for one or two small towns. We may do this agaim. I-95 was better with off and on rain. We had to get gas in Baldwin then arrived in Port Wentworth, GA exit 109 for our Comfort inn reservation. After checking in with steady rain, we went over to the Sweet Tea Grill where we had the crabcakes sandwich which came with house chips and house sauce. Everything was delicious. I had a Sam Adams Seasonal to go with dinner. This was a great meal. Our room was nice but we had the highway side of the hotel which was noisey. Overnight I used the Thule cable lock to lock the bikes to the rack and also used the regular cable lock to lock the two bikes together.

Libbie worked on getting our stuff together for our trip tomorrow. I put together a temp/humidity sensor to sense indoor temperatures next to the AC vent. This is the one that sends MQTT temperature and humidity to Adafruit. We left at 3:30 for Ted and Lorraine's and had a very pleasant drive down Honore and then I-75. We had veggies and nuts on the porch next to the pool and chatted then went to an italian restaurant that I really liked, Donatos. The restaurant interior was Little Italy with fire escapes, subway tiles, a subway turnstile and Italian business store fronts. For dinner I had eggplant Parmesan with Rigatoni in a pasta sauce accompanied by a Yuengling. It was a pretty nice time. Surprisingly Tommy is in bad shape health wise. He lives near Ted and Lorraine in Port Charlotte. Ted was going to drive to Tommy's house to roll his garbage can to the street because Tommy can't walk. We had a small incident on our way home. I was in the left turn lane and did not know the lane ended before the corner. There was a barrier there that I braked hard and swerved left, avoiding a certain problem. We got home safely at 9:30 PM which was good.

Practiced with my Clarinet this morning then we had to leave at 11:30 for downtown. We went up Beneva, West on Fruitville to the back of the parking garage for the Hollywood 20. The performance of Traviata was outstanding. I loved every minute of this opera with many recognizable hit tunes. We got out of the parking garage and onto Main Street by 4 PM then back to Beneva and home. Ian came at 6:30 for my last Clarinet lesson with him. We covered some more keys on the Clarinet plus some 1/8 notes which are used in the William Tell Overture which we both played as my last song. We offered dinner to Ian at the Clubhouse which he accepted. I had a Cabernet and the plank Salmon which came with Hollandaise sauce and veggies. It was lick your plate excellent. Ian has been a good start for my Clarinet non-career.

This morning I did my Clarinet practice then we did a little straightening up before leaving at 11 for downtown. We found parking on Pineapple just before Main Street. When we reached the Opera house they were already going in so we joined the line going into the rehearsal room which was up one flight of stairs. The room is quite large. We sat next to a couple from Syracuse. He was a college professor before having a heart attack which put him in a coma. They instantly retired 2 1/2 years ago. They recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The concert was wonderful and included the trio from Hoffman, Nessun Dorma, Soave Fanciulla from Boheme and many other notable pieces capped off by the entire group of 25 apprentice artists singing the party scene from Die Fledermaus. It was totally enjoyable. We decided to take a walk down Main Street and ended up having a very nice lunch at two Senoritas. I had the Taco Salad with a Margarita which was very good. It had shredded chicken and topped with Chili Con Carne. The meals came with chips and Salsa. We luckily had a seat inside along the rail where we could people watch as well as see what was driving by. After lunch we walked to a new bookstore and then walked through a gallery next door.
I did some more Clarinet practice then we had wine, cheese and crackers which served as our dinner. Only an Orange was my food after that.

Took a trip up Tamiami after my morning Clarinet practice to mail Libbie's passport renewal package at Fedex. We had a prepaid overnight label. We have to drive home next week to get mine so i could renew as well. We stopped at the Swim Mart store on the corner of Stickney Point and Clark on the way back. Libbie really liked the store. The New Or1ean's watercolor art from Lee Tucker came today as well as a package of a polo shirt and a dress shirt from LL Bean. We can now shut the mail off here for our trip back.
Libbie made the mushroom pastry puffs. The Filo dough had some problems because it was very dry. We had to go next door to Mark to borrow some flour. They also stuck to the aluminum foil. Parchment paper would have been better. That's what we used last time but I brought it home and didn't return it.
The party was pretty nice. Maggy next door made chicken wings that had spices but were not hot. I like the crab dip and the bean dip as well as the shrimp someone brought. Annita had some delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies. The party food served as our dinner tonight.