Over the four days I was there one very nice occasion was the pleasantly surprising visit from Kyle, Amanda, and Major; who were in town getting Amanda an ID card. we also went out for meals a number of times, shopped for Anne's baby shower, saw an IMAX movie called Jerusalem with Mom and Pat, visited the beautiful Carmel public library, played card games (Pat, Mom & me), saw American Sniper with Mom and Bob, sat in the front row with Ellen and Mom for a great magic show, and saw Unbroken (with Tom).

For the magic show, I sat within five feet of the magician doing sleight-of-hand tricks and couldn't "catch" him in anything.

For the card games with Mom and Pat, let's just say that I was evidently a poor teacher as they had some difficulties catching on to the games. But it was a lot of fun.

The weather was also an interesting part of the trip. Thursday morning I was in shirtsleeves in Tampa, and Thursday afternoon I was braving 40°F weather in Indianapolis. Thought it might snow and mess up the return trip, but it didn't and that was good.