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Happy Father's Day to all. It has been an absolute joyous weekend with the surprise visit of my children! I was expecting A quiet weekend with DH, maybe A trip to our coffee shop, some gardening, reading, A trip to the grocery store. Instead it was beautiful chaos, dinner and lunch out, A bonfire in the evening, laughing, stories, playing with my son's girlfriend's Boston Terrier. My heart is full to bursting. DS and his lovely girlfriend left around 10am, and DD flies out this evening.

We went for coffee with DD after DS got on the road. On the way there, we saw 25+ law enforcement cars from State Troopers and St Paul flying down the freeway, lights sirens blasting. We immediately thought they must have info on the murderer who killed our legislators. We later saw this group along with other departments converge south of here on the news, but no new information yet.

The absolute horror of Saturday morning lingers. Our House of Representatives is evenly split, and our Senate has a 1 vote Democratic majority. They just settled our budget this week. It wasn't easy, but it was bipartisan compromise. I felt proud we as a state had arrived at agreements everyone could live with, because the budget proposal was indeed passed. And then this heinous murder of legislators. What will become of us?

The son of my BFF's family live in the neighborhood that had to be locked down yesterday. They had to find words to explain to elementary kids why they couldn't leave the house to go to softball and birthday parties or even play in their yard.

So there has been a lot of emotion this weekend. I am left with this: Joy is an act of resistance.

Good for you planning your next cruises right away. You definitely should do all this while you have energy and health.

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Happy Father's Day to all Dads of ours, Dads with children and Dads with pets.

DD and SIL arrived safely yesterday and pickup was smooth except for the rain which continued until mid-afternoon yesterday. Apparently a lot of restaurants had to close because they only have outside seating. That is how rare rain is here.

We left our old room around 10 yesterday morning so the maid could get it ready for DD and SIL. We didn't get into the room I rented for our last 2 nights until mid-afternoon. It is probably the room farthest from my usual one and farthest from the water. I would never buy a timeshare room in this unit! But it is only for 1 more night.

We went to dinner at our favorite restaurant last night. Everyone loved their steak. Best meal in the 2 weeks we have been here.

Since today is Sunday we will go get breakfast after our morning walk. We head to the piers in the high-rise part of town with the "kids" in late afternoon to take them to a sunset cruise. We will hang around town while they are gone, then we are going for the 3rd time to one of our other favorite restaurants here. Last night in Aruba!

Have a scintillating Sunday!

Sounds like you are awfully busy for a retired person this week!

Wow! Hot! When do you leave for the lake?