Had a big weekend this past weekend. I'll start with Friday. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law were scheduled to fly out of Logan on Saturday morning. And, as I have mentioned before, I was the point person in their planning process. So it was up to me to constantly check the weather, the airport websites (Logan & MCO), WDW website and follow all of them on Twitter and check for any and every update. Some guy named MATT was raising havoc. It was tense for a while, but fortunately, WDW and MCO were open Saturday, and Logan and JetBlue had kept the original flight time. BUT... because of all the chaos, the airport suggested that everyone be there 2+ hrs before their departure. They flew out at 7:35am. So, I was planning on waking up at 5am and driving them in. But, stress loomed big, as the travelers looked at the Logan Airport website and didn't see their flight. So they woke me up at 3:30. I had to point out to them, that Logan only shows flights within 4 hrs. If they had waited another 5-10 min, I could've gotten a little more sleep. Such is life. So I grab the bags (give my unofficial < 50 lbs verdict) and bring them to the car. There was NO ONE on the Mass Pike. Not even people coming the other way coming home from after parties. Once we got to Logan, once again, no one was there. I was able to pull right up to the curb, and we took as long as we wanted to unload, without any Staties trying to get us out of the way. A few hugs later, and the in-laws were on their way.
After that, it was the return trip home, and hopefully an hour or 2 of more sleep. Ahhhhh. After my, nap, I had to get BDLsgal's help with something. This October will be our 1st anniversary AND her 40th. She had gone all out throwing me a surprise 40th. So I had to try to make her 40th/our 1st anniversary as amazing as possible. So, for the past few weeks, I'd been planning and plotting and scheming and researching for the best possible gift. And I think I came up with the perfect gift. BDLsgal is really into country music. Over the past year, we hadn't been able to as many concerts as she would like. What with the expense of getting married and construction on the home. So... I got an idea, and I laid as many deposits around as I could and booked things that offered refunds, but there was a purchase that I had to make that would not be able to get back, if this was something she couldn't do. So, while we are having our coffee...
"Hon, I need your help with something. I know June is the busy time of year for you at work (she's an office mgr. for a landscape & construction co.), but do you think you could get a few days off?" She said that she was pretty sure. Then I told her all the things that I just told you, and gave the big reveal to her. "Hon, I'm taking you to Nashville for CMA Fest weekend." The look on her face was totally worth the sneaking. So, as soon as she said that we could do it, I got us our 4-day passes to Nissan Stadium. So 6 mos after we go to Disney, we'll be heading to CMA Fest. Once everything was calmed down, we went about our business and took care of our errands and chores.
Sunday, we wake up early again. IT's FAST PASS+ DAY!!!! 7am, start up the laptop. 7:45am, all of the updates plied themselves and I was able to use the laptop. Login to
MDE and boom! It's go time. I was pretty lucky. I got a lot of my 1st and/or 2nd choices without having to change any of my park days or dining reservations. Most days, I only booked 2 FP+'s, leaving the 3rd slot empty. But, I got the big ones that I wanted. 1st and foremost, got Illuminations FP+ on my CP night. Got, FP+'s for Frozen Ever After, Soarin' & Mission Space for EPCOT, Tower of Terror and Toy Story at MGM, Everest and Finding Nemo Musical for AK and 7 Dwarfs Mine Ride and Space Mtn for Magic Kingdom. Then I filled in a few slots so that we got the character meet n greets with photo ops at every park. I think it was a good get.
But now it's back to business... BDLsgal's aunt recently had a medical procedure done. And with her mom and sis in WDW, the workload fell to us. Since a lot of our time would be taken up post-work, we decided to prep our meals for the week, and in the process, we'll be able to Tupperware portions of those meals and bring them to her aunt's, so she won't have to do anything. So, 2 pasta dishes and a cassarole later, we were caught up. Just in time for me to head up to my Elks to see the return of Tom Brady. An amazing 1st half. But, I had to head home and actually work on the dinner that we were having on THAT night. Got home, put the game on the kitchen TV, made chicken scampi, ate and then took about a 45 min nap. After that, I sprung up, got into shower, put on my jammies and joined BDLsgal in bed to watch our 2 favorite fictional shows. 1st was a great episode of Once Upon A Time. After that was the even more fictional Presidential Debate. It made me laugh, it made me cry. If they don't get the Emmy this year for best creative writing, there is no justice.
A very busy, very full, but GREAT weekend.
...we have both taken up boxing (not "fitness" boxing, either---boxing boxing!) and we enjoy the cardio of that. (I guess we "enjoy" it. We keep doing it, anyway.) So as two former jocks that are now grandparents, let me say that you are doing the absolute right thing in watching your diet and exercising with an eye to the long haul. Keep it up; you will be VERY glad in the decades to come! 
