I've overheard "There's nothing to do here..."I offer another opinion...
Last Friday, I left my office a little early and went for a 2-mile swim. Then I headed for a late lunch at the 3-day annual Greek Festival for a gyro, Greek salad, and some live Greek music and belly dancing. Then I back tracked to the complimentary "Cook-Off" at Northwood Nights...the bacon wrapped bananas, crab cakes and dim sung were delicious! Next I headed south to the opening of the Delray International Tennis Championships. I arrived just in time to see Andy Roddick from eight feet away on a practice court...the cool evening weather was perfect! Still heading sough and with an earlier theme, I stopped at a Greek diner!
After 4 hours sleep, and breakfast number two, it was back to the indoor pool to swim 2 more miles. Back in the car on the Intrastate and oops ...a tire blowout! AAA said it would be 1.5 hours to get a service vehicle, so I bumped off the highway, and got a store owner to fill the tire with a portable unit, that allowed me to drive two more blocks to a branch of the store where I had purchased the tires! Since I had "road hazard coverage", the replacement tire cost half price! But when I looked for my credit card I realized the box office had forgotten to return it at the tennis tournament! So I rushed back down to the tennis stadium in Delray, picked it up, and turned around to stop by the Lake Worth annual Street Painting Festival! It had quite the artist turnout! From there I drove north again to join 3,000 of my closest friends in Palm Beach County's "Wheel of Fortune" tryouts. You lined up for an hour three times to drop an application into a box. From these they randomly selected 5 people, 20 times in an hour for a mini-version of the show. My usual good luck wore off for the two ladies on either side of me...both were called...I was not! After that, I had to take a jacuzzi, watched UVA lose to UNC in a nail-biting close basketball season final game, and rest for a dinner reception back south again! An artist and his partner opened up their beautiful home that displayed his work, while we enjoyed an unusually catered meal! Then it was time to head back north to Jupiter to catch the late show of the actual Navy Seal footage "Act of Valor" terrific film.
After another four hours sleep it was time to head back to Palm Beach for mass with Mom, then back north to brunch at a hotel that I was trying to sell. After dropping Mom home, once again, I headed south to board a cruise ship for a champagne brunch business meeting cruise along Palm Beach's Intracoastal waterfront. It finished in time to catch the "Unsinkable Titanic" lecture at Palm Beach's Whitehall Museum. Then, back north again to meet my brother and mother for dinner at the Waterway Cafe! Afterwards, it was home to do an architectual project while watching the Oscars, and preparing for a Monday workday!
Nothing to do?1?!
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