Fun Times

I just spent a fun hour (really) sitting in line to get tickets for Paul and Carol O. for our Showtime event - scheduled for next Friday and Saturday evenings. I got great Saturday tickets - second row center of the stage on the left side. I was 12th (?) I think. Got there at 9:00 but obviously not the first, and the ticket counter "opened up" at 10:00. I hear that each year it gets easier and fairer (the ticket sales). But, I enjoyed going early, sitting and talking with people near me. It's a festive mood. They opened up the ticket sales early, too. . . when all the "waiting" seats were filled. And besides, if you get there at 10:00, you have to sit and wait practically the same length of time anyway. I was out by 10:15.
It's rainy this morning. Started in while I was at the Clubhouse.
The Vet left a message on our answering machine yesterday. Ella's ashes were there and we could pick them up today. So we did. We'll bury her - perhaps just outside the screened lanai area that she loved.
This afternoon Marian, Bob and we were to go to AAA Travel to see if they could give us a good deal on an April cruise. Unfortunately it was closed. Strange for a Saturday. So we went furniture/window-shopping. We love to window-shop.

Now the sun is out.
I almost forgot to talk about yesterday. . .
Yesterday we had a great day! We went up to the Tampa area.
Background: Because of the very cold weather we've had this winter, the manatees needed a place where they could be warm.
There is a power plant at Apollo Beach, near Tampa, which has a shallow cove that attracts manatees every winter, because of the warm water the power plant expells into the cove. This year, because of the long, constant cold, they had a record number of manatees and stingrays spending their time. Hundreds. So, we went with our friends Rosemarie and Ron (from Corning) who are renting down here in Venice. It was cold! Lots of people with cameras there. Parking lot was full. The manatees didn't move much, and they reminded us of big, fat floating logs. Occasionally, a stingray jumped out of the water and the back flap of a manatee splashed the surface.
That was in the morning.
In the afternoon we continued on into Tampa, to the Museum of Science.
They advertised a traveling exposition of Leonardo DaVinci's works. Rosemarie is a DaVinci fan and, while we traveled in the car, she told us a lot about him, (For example, and I saw this at the museum, I didn't know he wrote his notes on his work backwards from right to left, so you needed a mirror to read them, or perhaps I did, but didn't remember)and after seeing the models of all his inventions, and the copies of his famous paintings, with explanations of these works, it certainly made an impact on me.
Using computer-generated science, they showed us more about what they learned about colors backgrounds and other things changed. He had numerous ideas/inventions in math, science, music, art. We all were trying to think. . . of anyone in all/recent history who could compare? None that we could think of. Some might be/have been good at one or more, but none were/are good at all.
So it was a fun, interesting day.
That's what's happening to us. What's happening in your neck o the woods?