Adventure Us 2: Mom's Bucket List

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Mom's Bucket List

Alice, who will be 85 in August, came to Texas to visit for three weeks and to help me celebrate my birthday. (She loves a good celebration.) When she informed us she wanted to go sailing, I was pleasantly surprised because she is not a water person.

We set a date, but I really thought she would back out especially with winds predicted in Galveston Bay at 17 knots on our sceduled date. This was a tad puzzling to me because her entire life she has reminded her kids, almost daily, how much she dislikes water activities. I explained to her how Adventure Us 2 would heel and she just shrugged her shoulders like she had no concerns.

Sunday rolled around and she was waiting for us by the front door with her bag full of accouterments: sunscreen, sun glasses, visor, boat shoes, and barf bag. Ten minutes later we boarded Adventure US 2 and prepared to motor through the Kemah channel and out into the bay. It was a gorgeous day and we all looked forward to a great sail! We sailed for nearly three hours and not a scream, whine, or complaint came from her! Allthough I did hear one or two squeels of delight. It was amazing! She enjoyed it so much she asked if we could go again before she travels back to Pittsburgh!

Celebrating with a bucket of cold Tecate at Outriggers after checking sailing off mom's bucket list!

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How we met

His version:
I picked Janet Lee out of a police lineup. She was accused of ripping some guy's heart out and eating it while she whistled Dixie. I thought WOW, finally a real southern belle, any woman that can whistle with her mouth full has got to be from the South. Needless to say I told the cops they had the wrong hooker... uh ... I mean girl. We met a month later and the TWO of US started our ADVENTURE by sealing the deal in the back seat of my car.
If you ask her how we met she will probably say she found me throwing up in the bushes behind an all night sports bar, but it's not true. It was a strip club. Oh yea, and she is not really from the south, she's from an eastern nation that bleeds black and gold.

Her Version:
I was at the bus station dropping off my gardener for his bi-annual trip to visit mamasita when I heard a commotion coming from the arrival terminal. Michael (I didn't know his name at the time) was about to be arrested for trying to pilfer coins from a pay phone. He looked kind of cute, and I hate to see grown men whine, so I apoligized to the cops for being late, and explained he was my pool man that just arrived from Denver. He looked as though he had not eaten in a couple of days so I took pity on him and bought him dinner. After a couple of bottles of wine I learned he can be quite charming in a hopeless, down on your luck, sort of way.
If you ask him how we met he will probably say he liked my photo spread in some men's magazine. The truth is the TWO of US began our ADVENTURE together five years ago on Match.com. Oh yea, and he is right about one thing: I love, eat, pray and bleed black and gold.