Some Warmth and Then Madison

Last week we traveled to Naples to attend a meeting for Jo that I'm graciously invited to join.  Which is quite nice since it is always a pleasure to have a little bit of sun and warm temperatures during the last of winter - especially after the massive snow fall we had recently.  Florida certainly cooperated with bright, blue skies every day and almost perfect temperatures in the high 70's.

Her meetings went well and we had some free time over the weekend to enjoy wandering around old Naples taking in an art fair, eating brunch at Jane's and walking the pier to enjoy the people fishing.  During the afternoon breaks during the week, we snuck in some time by the pool soaking up the sun mostly in the interest of refilling our Vitamin D stores, of course.  It is really nice to have that as a reason to be sitting outside on a work day - well a work day for Jo, us retired folks no longer believe in "work" days.

The evenings were filled with dinners ranging from elegant (trotted out the tuxedo and Jo was resplendent in her evening dress) to casual as one evening we enjoyed listening to three Nashville song writers after dinner sing some of their songs that became hits for various stars (including one for Carrie Underwood) and explain the process by which they developed the music and lyrics.

We came back home just to do some laundry and repack for a short visit to Madison.  Jo had a Chemistry Board meeting while I cleaned up our condo a bit (amazing how much dust can accumulate in a place that doesn't get that much use) and spent the rest of the time doing some further planning on our renovations.  We then enjoyed dinner with Kathy and John before watching the disappointing loss for our Badgers in the NCAA basketball tournament.  Saturday dawned drizzly and after a short walk we headed to the theaters to enjoy the remake of Beauty and the Beast - which we thoroughly enjoyed.  Then it was time to come home and settle a few things around here.