Weekend Kickoff Mini-Thoughts

Let’s try this again – a rapid-fire session of thoughts on my mind right this minute:

• I went on a short weekend getaway last weekend.
• I left at dawn last Friday, and I returned late this past Monday morning.
• It was a 76-hour vacation away from home.
• I drove about 140 miles away from home, so not too far.
• Once upon a time I’d announce my vacations away from home on social media.
• I’m much smarter nowadays, as I now reveal vacations after-the-fact.
• So I drove to Fort Myers Florida on Friday.
• I ate Breakfast at Perkins along the way in Naples.
• I like Perkins. I wish we had those here at home.
• I enjoyed a late Lunch / early Dinner at Outback Steakhouse.
• I can’t remember the last time I ate there (maybe over 10 years ?)
• We don’t have one close to home, but we have Longhorn & Texas here.
• I love to eat steak !
• I saw longtime comedian Brian Regan LIVE in concert that night.
• He packed-in a lot of laughs in 55 minutes.
• I wish he had performed for 90 minutes.
• He left us wanting more, so he did his job as a comedian.
• He had an opening act too – a comedian that made us laugh for 15 minutes.
• The next morning I headed over to Fort Myers Beach.
• I visited “The Island” (as the natives refer to it) 7 times from 2011 to 2015.
• It was love at first sight at the end of April of 2011.
• I thought I had found my future retirement town.
• On subsequent visits I discovered the “seedier” side of town.
• I decided not to retire there.
• I decided to stop visiting there.
• So this was my 8TH visit, but 1ST visit in a little over 4 years.
• It’s still a fun place to visit.
• I’ll visit for a 9TH time sooner rather than later.
• I did considerable research on churches on the island beforehand.
• There are a lot of churches along its narrow 7-mile length.
• A friend suggested a specific church to visit.
• I watched the previous Sunday sermon from the Pastor.
• I didn’t care for his style. He was too Jimmy Buffett-like.
• He acted too silly for me.
• His use of Scripture was mighty thin too.
• I like a Pastor with a sense of humor, but this dude was over-the-top.
• I ended-up watching a LIVE Facebook feed of my own Pastor back home.
• I like his style.
• Later on Sunday night I took a fun 3-hour boat cruise that I pre-booked.
• It was billed as a “Dolphin & Shelling Sunset Cruise“.
• There were 38 of us including the Captain & Skipper.
• Both narrated portions of the cruise.
• We saw lots of birds at play on the various islands.
• Dolphins jumped all around us at the rear of the boat.
• Those dolphins know how to get from Point A to Point B quicker.
• They simply ride the waves created by the boat.
• I didn’t get any pictures of the dolphins because there were lots of kids too.
• They blocked my view, but it’s all good.
• The sunset was beautiful too, but again my line-of-sight was blocked.
• I did manage to get one reasonably good photo of the sunset.

• You’re lookin’ good Fort Myers Beach !

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