The Petersons

Jon and Shelly Peterson visited this past weekend. They were on their way to Panama City, and we got to spend Saturday night and Sunday morning with them. After they arrived, Jon decided to recreate the iconic Bear Photograph that has become so popular.

Saturday night, we stayed in and ate BBQ and had a wonderful time visiting with Jon and Shelly. Sunday, Ashley cooked us a nice breakfast, and then we went out to the dock for a few photographs.

The weather wasn't great, but we had to take Jon and Shelly out to Sandestin to meet up with Shelly's sister, so we decided to stop at the Harbor Walk; needless to say, we got a little wet.

We had a great time with them even if it was only a day-visit; hopefully we'll get out to Nebraska and go golfing with them at their exclusive club.

I ran in a 5-mile race yesterday. It is far too long of a story to explain why Ashley didn't run with me, but hopefully, we'll both be racing together at the next local race. I earned the title of Grand Master at this race, which means I was the first finisher that was over 50 years old. Plus, I also managed to beat the top female finisher (I knew she was behind me, and I wasn't going to let her catch me at the line :-)

Bode and I have a big trip to Huntsville this week for the SES short course championship swim meet; should be fun!

Silver

There was a pickleball tournament here in Fort Walton Beach this past weekend. I played in the advanced singles division, and due to my increasing age, I was able to play in the 50-and-over bracket. I got second place, so I was pleased; of course, there were only five players, so second place is like the top 20% :-)

We also took a group phot with our medals. We played until about 9:00 pm on Friday, well past my normal bedtime, and it was also quite cold out there.

The men's doubles bracket was supposed to be today, but we had a lot of rain, so it was postponed until next weekend.

In a previous post, I think we mentioned that for the first time in his swimming career, Bode qualified for the Southeast Swimming championship meet. The meet is in a couple weeks, but the t-shirts for the team came back on Friday. I think we bought one shirt for each of us.

Bode will be swimming in four events--50-fly, 100-fly, 200-fly, and the 200-free. It should be a fun trip. Otherwise, nothing too exciting going on this week--work, school, swim, repeat :-) Pleasant week to all.