No alarm.

I was not expecting all of this sunshine. So grateful for all of this sunshine.

I don’t think I realized he could/did talk this much. He’s really into classic cars - and Monty Python.

He forgot his cleats.

She says something about how we are scheduled for 5:30pm and not 11:00am and the handful of us are looking at each other in disbelief.

I am surprised by this conversation, but I am grateful for it. I tell her that if she’s doing all of those sports, then why not just add golf?

Back home we go. “This is a good day to forget your cleats,” he says.

I sit at the stoplight and watch the tourists pile up at the intersections. I remind myself that I live in a place people come for vacation; that is something to be grateful for.

“That’s because you don’t have brothers.”

Yes. It was still the right choice.