Friday, January 25, 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Up at 7 am...weight up a pound...135 lbs....ugh

Fixed us a lunch to take to school....did the trash and now finishing this.  It started to rain during the night and has continued.....will be a wet morning.

We are both off to school at 9 am for a 10 am class on the History of European Art...followed by another one World's Greatest Paintings.  We then have a break to eat lunch and then go to the first of the Travel Presentations...around the world in 90 minutes...this one is about traveling to Africa....We'll be done about 4 pm. 

If I can get Jim to stay there is a computer one I want to attend at 4:30 that goes until 6 pm....I will be amazed if he will stay for that.

Left at 9 am...only coffee before leaving....found parking in the lot right at the buildings...sprinkling but had stopped by 11 am....enjoyed the first class that was a lecture  (on a tape) "History of European Art" about Louis XIV & Versailes, and French Art in the 18th Century.

11:30 am....we ate our lunch in the lunch room....Jim met several people...some I already knew and other were new to me also.   boiled egg, slice of hard cheese and slices of ham.  I'd also packed an apple and an orange but we didn't eat those.  Worked on getting the wireless working on my new phone...but couldn't will have to get some help at school from the Geeks.

12:30 pm... we went to a second art class (lecture on tape) about "the world's greatest paintings":  Poussin, Claude, Chardin, Tiepolo & Gainsborough...also very good.  Jim really enjoyed them but he was getting antsy...so he left and I stayed for the first part of the lecture on Africa .... the first of the Travel series that I will be speaking at.  This was a travel agent who specializes in southern Africa tours.  Normally it's a member of OLLI that shares a trip.  He was very good but they had some problems with his computer...he'd brought an apple laptop and the battery died...therefore the Mac presentation would not work and they didn't have a computer available for him so he had to switch to an commercial presentation that he had with him....I guess you'd say he had to punt!  They were about twenty minutes late in starting.

Jim had gone windowshopping at several of the nearby stores and then returned to pick me up at 3 pm.  I only saw about half of the presentation on Africa.  Looks interesting but I still would not pick that as my favorite place to go.  We have neighbors...Kathy & Harry Hughes, that are going in April to Africa.  Their "tents" are like rooms...even air conditioned.  The speaker said the lodgings are more like 4 star hotels and you have a chef fixing your meals.  Quite different from twenty years ago when he started. 

Shopped for food on the way home.   A quick spoonful of peanut butter and then we walked our 2 miles.

Dinner:   salad:  lettuce, tomato, carrots, cheese...for dessert a 3 Musketeer Candy bar...opps...and then mixed nuts with a small glass of "sweet tea"...over chipped ice.  Big Opps.

Read my book by my friend Trisha St. Andrew....finally finished it by 1 am....really a good book with lots of twists and turns.  Mini surprises right up to the last page!