Back from Washington, DC

 

Back from Washington, DC and unfortunately I spent the majority of the trip sick. I could feel a sore throat coming on as we drove to the airport on Thursday and by Friday night I was sniffling and sneezing and had a congested chest and was overall pretty miserable. I made it through our meetings on Friday and even through dinner on Friday night. Jeff and Linda offered to take us out Friday night on a tour of the memorials at night. I got back to the hotel about 10:30 and told Darla I was OUT on any additional sightseeing. My head was blocked up, I had a severe headache and my nose was sore from blowing it every two minutes.

 

Darla and Jeff and Linda went without me and you can see many of the night pictures that they were able to get. I was with them on Friday afternoon and we went to the US Capitol (where it was blocked off because Hillary was meeting with the faux Indian princess, Elizabeth Warren to see if they wanted to make it an "all witch" ticket on the Democratic side). There were more secret service around and black Suburbans than I've ever seen before. We went over to the US Supreme Court and actually sat in on a docent presentation in the courtroom itself. That was pretty interesting. Darla and I had just watched the movie, "Woman in Gold" and it had a part in it where they were arguing in front of the US Supreme Court and it was neat to be sitting in there. They only have eight seats at the bench right now since Scalia's death. From there we walked over to the US Library of Congress, had lunch at a street cafe and then went over to the Jefferson Memorial. That ended up being the extent of my sightseeing as I slept until 2 PM Saturday and had chills and fever and went to lunch with Darla, but was pretty well out of it. I slept off and on all day and then we were up early this morning for our flight home.

 

Friday night we had dinner at a French Restaurant in Georgetown, La Chaumiere. It was great food and a great time as hosted by Alan Smith, the Chairman of WIAA. I handled my presentation in the morning on our exclusive program for WIAA on Insurance Agent's E&O. It was a little bit uncomfortable as one of our outgoing board members was the founder of CK Specialty and she always felt that it was a conflict of interest to push CK Specialty products to WIAA as a board member. I disagree and feel that if I can bring added value to a product with Burns and Wilcox, I will.

 

I am feeling marginally better now, but had headaches, a neck ache from sleeping on 12 pillows on the bed and asour stomach. I fell asleep pretty quickly Friday night and forgot to purge the bed of the dozens of pillows that it is decorated with. My neck was twisted and sore. I also had a tremendous earache with the altitude change and could hear buzzing in both ears when I blew my nose after landing in Chicago.

 

The other pictures above are from our golf day up at Serrano. My team shot 60 and we took 4th. We pay the first three spots. I did have a closest to the pin and won a foursome to Serrano. I will take Big John, Pete and my twilight partner, Ron Floyd up to play at Serrano. There are also pictures from our team outing to Strikes Bowling in Rocklin. We are going to do quarterly outings and Pete and Linda decided to have us all bowl this time. It was fun. Darla came by for a little while and took some pictures.

 

Well, this is short, but I feel like death warmed over, so will sign off until next week. I hope you are all well. Also hoping that Shirley's teeth are settling in and Darryl's family makes it out to Kansas this week for a visit. Be happy and hug one another for me. Ciao.