Last Week was Busy!

 I had a full calendar last week.  Monday was our Ghost Tour of Galveston with Forum Sustainers.  I picked Pam up, we met up with the group and had a delightful day.  It was a cool, damp day so a bus tour was great.  We traveled up and down all the streets hearing the history of the buildings and any ghost stories associated with them.  Ghosts don’t matter but I enjoyed the history and architecture.

We stopped at the historic Galvez Hotel that was just renovated. It is beautiful and sits right across from the Gulf.

The Founder’s Bar

We had lunch of pecan encrusted mahi mahi at Gaido’s on the Seawall. All in all, a most enjoyable day.

I had a routine yearly echocardiogram on Tuesday and will go back for results this week.  

Wednesday was a sad day … a wonderful friend who suffered terribly for 5 years with lymphoma passed away and I attended one of the most beautiful funerals ever.  I can only hope people would say 10% of the wonderful things about me that was said about her. Our singing group, the Melodies, of which Gail was a member, performed along with the church’s musicians.  Her husband, son, physical therapist and friend all spoke.  It was All Saints Day, so fitting!  There was a reception at the church afterwards and it was nice to see so many old friends. 

Continental Breakfast for Newcomers was Thursday morning at friend Mary’s house.  I wore purple and so did half a dozen other people.  It was like we all got the same memo!  Funny! In between there and my class at Lone Star college I stopped to vote.  From there I attended  my class on Probate.  I was glad to learn our Will accompanied with a Trust is the best Avenue!  One thing I found interesting is never leave someone $1 to make a point. Doing that makes them an heir and has legal status you probably didn’t intend.  Also, we have always kept one car in each of  our names because TX DMV will always license the other car to a surviving spouse.  Turns our cars were bought with community property, the cars are community property and the DMV is more concerned with names matching than anything else.  Living in a community property state is more involved than the majority of states that aren’t community property.  

So our weekend was quiet with church, dinner out, Ted shooting, and I started gathering my things for our cruise. I have bought nothing new to wear.  We so seldom dress up that there is plenty to choose from that hasn’t seen the light of day in some time.

Two weeks to go back to Galveston to board the Regal Princess to celebrate Thanksgiving in Belize.  I feel bad leaving Nancy all alone.  She has celebrated holidays with us the past two years but it is nice she is here to keep an eye things.