Yesterday the kids took a boat out to a small island off the coast of Bali and went swimming with manta rays. Pictures below from the top of the island where they hiked up to. Really beautiful. It’s Thursday night there and they have Friday before flying home Saturday. Meanwhile, Marty and I went to Grand Junction. Matt gave me a bunch of tools that I picked out and he sold Marty a bunch. I’ve done a lot for him over the years, and he feels like he’s in debt to me for life. I would have been happy to pay his cost, but he wouldn’t hear of it. I didn’t realize the difference between tools you buy at Home Depot and the ones professional’s use. These are so nice, and all precision made. They’re almost like works of art. Fun time as you know how I like anything that’s made well and is high quality. Most of the tools are made in Germany. After going through all Matt’s boxes, we went over to Randy’s and hung out for a while. He has the farm you’ve read about, and I helped him out a bind a few years ago and now get anything, anytime, for life, for free. We both left with a few gallons of fresh strawberries, and some other stuff that they picked that morning. I cleaned the berries when we made it home and had fresh strawberry shortcake last night! Marty says I’m like the Godfather in the movies as everyone he meets that I know, owes me in some way and now does favors for me. I’ve just always tried to help friends out, guess it’s good karma coming back to me.
Memorial Day weekend coming up. We’re just hanging out at home. I was thinking about driving down Sunday morning to pick the kids up at the airport to see them, and save them the Uber ride, but that’s a long drive. We’ll see how we feel then.
Nice and green outside. Everything is in bloom. Metallica just announced two months of shows in Europe from the first of May until July 5th next year. Make it while you can! Seems like they’ve been on the road for 3 or 4 years. I’d personally get tired of it. James leaves this morning for Philadelphia.
Here’s pictures of the island, pretty amazing. What a cute couple Jag and Ava are. Glad they took this trip alone instead of us four parents going which was the original plan. Enjoy, have a great day and God Bless.
