Euchre Again--February 11

We are getting so lazy. We rarely wake up before 8, much less get up. After breakfast Ralph gets a call saying that he can come in for dialysis early if he wants. He wants. Flo drops him off and comes back for us. We go to the public library so that I can get on line and update the blog. We head to south of the river to go to Costco. Can you imagine we have been gone for 2 weeks and haven’t stepped foot into a Costco? We usually check them out along the road just to see what they have that is different. It is early afternoon and most of the tasters have gone home. Darn. I know people who go to Costco to eat lunch! We get beer to replenish Flo’s supply, some low energy lightbulbs (Norb’s crusade) and some lobster salad to leave behind when we leave. Norb forgot to pack shorts so he finds 2 different pairs, we pay for them, he tries them on and returns 1 pair.

 

We go to the orange juice place that we visit every time we come here. We are running short of time and need to rush, so we grab 3 gallons of freshly squeezed orange juice (1 for us, 1 for Flo and Ralph, and 1 to take as a gift to our friends on Thursday) and 4 large Star grapefruit. The line for the ice cream is too long, so we miss out on the orange/vanilla swirl. Too bad. 

We pick Ralph up and go to dinner at Athena Restaurant. It’s 4:30 PM and we have our choice of places to sit. It’s the classic Greek restaurant—a huge menu with a few Greek things on it. They don’t make their own gyros; they are out of a box. So I rule that out. I order feta and cheese as an appetizer and shock the waitress. I don’t think anybody has ever ordered it before. She made me show it to her on the menu. I order the Greek chicken and it comes with soup, salad, potato or rice, and dessert. The soup is okay, the salad is good, the fries are crispy, and I can only eat a portion of my chicken because I want to save myself for rice pudding. By the time we are ready to leave the place has almost filled up. We end up with 3 take home boxes (Norb is the only one that can finish his meal) so we add to the leftovers in the fridge.

 

We play Euchre again in the evening. I am finally in my groove and manage to be on the winning end this time.