I worked on a lot of “administrivia” this week: reviewing our tax return, getting absentee ballots ready to mail, looking at Medicare billing, picking an air purifier to ship, etc. – plus a run to the grocery store and the butcher. I also enjoyed watching more Olympics, primarily ice skating. And today we cheered on the U.S. men’s hockey team, despite not knowing any of the rules! (The women’s team won gold, too!)
John had an interesting outing this week to one of the ports to watch a grain ship from America unload I-don’t-know-how-many tons of wheat, then he toured the plant where they make it into flour. Turns out, all the bread here is made from American wheat – who knew?
Sunday evening we hosted a reception for staffers from the Hill and members of the UN Foundation who were here to see some of the UN projects on the ground. The guests were all impressive – young, smart, polite and it was really a pleasure to meet them. (The funniest thing was that a herd of cows decided to come into the neighborhood to graze right before they arrived!) Monday was a U.S. holiday, so Mellisa and I walked in the national park (and fed the manatees, of course!) then we had lunch at Oasis Cafe. I had a fun chat with my old boss Pete M. on Wednesday!
I’m reading “The Life and Death of August Sweeney” and still plugging away on the financial planning book (I had to take a break from it!). We continue with our crime dramas, and added a very old show on BritBox called “Spooks” (aka MI-5).
Earlier in the week we had donkeys in the neighborhood!
We thought about John’s dad Pete on Monday on his birthday. We miss him.
