Went to a funeral Mass this morning.  The Mother of my friend/coworker passed away on Friday at the age of 76.  I had gone to the wake Sunday night and she seemed to be doing all right.  Today at the church she was NOT doing OK.  I just wanted to let her cry as long as she wanted to. 

I took my own Mom with me for moral support, plus she knows my friend and her hubby.  We were both fine until the soloist sang 'Ave Maria.'  That song gets to me every time!  

When I was younger someone told me that you should make three wishes at every new church you visit.  Not sure if this is true or not, but it is still something I remember to do...

Well !!!   The whole day wasn't sad.  Tonight we took Geri to dinner for her birthday!!  : )

We had strawberry daiquiris with whipped cream!  Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!  This week is busy for her because it's her BD and her 16th Wedding Anniversary!!  Wooooo Hooooooooo!!

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Ahhhhhh.  A week ago I was still in the glorious 85 degree weather of the Bahamas!!

Vacation was wonderful.  Took alot of photos!  These are some of my favorite ones:

This was my view that I woke up to every day.  It looked like this every day too for a week.  Well, except Wednesday when it was raining until about 11am...but then SUNSHINE!

My view

My drink of choice.  The strawberry daiquiri.  YUM!  I also had a few Kalik beers too and lots of water!

Tropical Drink

The Atlantis property was gorgeous.  Lots of sea creatures close by to check out.  The turtles were so big...but graceful in a way, and the rays were cool to watch circle in huge packs!

Sea Turtle

Rays

I love seashells!  So of course this roof caught my eye!

Shell roof

There were lots of beautiful tropical flowers all around too!

Bloom

All in all it was a very relaxing week!!!

I would go back in a minute!!!

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Last week at this time I was still in Aruba.  I was on the 'One Happy Island' from 10/6 to 10/13.  Every day was warm, sunny and tropical !!!!  It was a VERY relaxing week in the sun!  I feel very lucky and a little spoiled!

I was outside at the Westin in the sun by 1:30 on 10/6.  The first person I saw was Ricardo!  He took great care of me all week making sure I was drinking lots of liquids!!  PLUS he remembered me from my visit in May!  : )

Ricardo : )

I tried to make it a point to be outside in the sun each day from before 10:30am to about 5:15pm.  The pool is beautiful and very refreshing.  Each day pool attendants would deliver fruit on a stick to keep everyone cool !

Pool

Pool fountains

Those fountains were great.  When the wind blew they would mist you with a cool spray of water!  Plus for phone calls home everyone knew I was sitting pool side!  LOL

The grounds of the hotel have lots of wildlife.  Birds and iguanas!  Gorgeous flowers!  I took some cool photos of the scenery at the Westin.

Iguana

flower

I have to say the tropical drink photo is my favorite though! Yummy daiquiris every day there!  Thanks Ricardo!!  : )

Staying hydrated

Until next time Aruba!

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Saturday night was daiquiri night at Geri's with Jules and Leslie!!  YUM!!  Her daiquiris are very rum heavy....but that is a VERY good thing! 

Somehow (LOL) the discussion came around to crushes.  I thrilled the girls with silly details about Crush Monkey.  I am sure there were some things they wish I didn't share but we all laughed a lot anyway!

Then we focused on Les and a crush of hers.  I was trying to defend myself for doing something totally silly by saying 'At least I didn't bring in a fish!!!'  LOL!!!

Then, something happened.  Allegedly the fish was not remembered.  In fact the giving of the fish was denied completely by Les!!  Imagine my shock and horror.  Could I have had too much rum and made up this fish story!?!?  NO!

I went home and had a restless night sleep.  The first thing I remembered when I woke up Sunday morning (at 8am) was that the person that the fish was given to named them after some Scituate fisherman.  AHA!!!!!

The diary doesn't lie people!!!!!!  I had to go back...way back in time to 1992 to find the entry...but there it was.  Les gave her crush a fish!!   LOL!!!

I may not remember everything, but if it's written down it'll never be forgotten!

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If a waiter stopped by right now to take your order, what cocktail or drink are you having?

I'll have a strawberry daiquiri !  Thank you!!  Just keep them coming every so often throughout the day!

Daiquiri

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Daiquiri

Yum!  Daiquiris tonight at Geri's!!  Can't wait!

Of course, Geri's are bigger than this one and will have MUCH more rum!  Woo hoooo!!!

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