Well, the Celebration of the Arts was a good event last evening. Not quite as many people as last year, however, a nice mix and everyone enjoyed themselves. The team that brought it together worked hard and I sent an extra thanks out to them this morning. I still have a few hours work with returning some items we borrowed and getting things out of bags and put away. A few leftover extras need to also be distributed and I won’t have to buy bottled water for a couple of months. We don’t drink bottled water here as we have a whole-house filter system, but I take it into the museum and we do have one more HCA meeting next month. I take snacks and beverages to that as well.

I would like to say next week will be better and in one sense it will. I have multiple obligations all the way through Memorial Day – well actually through May 31st – although none are overly stressful. At least none are supposed to be; keeping fingers crossed. There is something brand new which will also likely result in newspaper article for the last week of May. I have been invited to be a judge for a first-time exercise with some students – not sure if high school or college – in the field of hospitality and tourism. I haven’t had time to look at the packet yet and think it is a simulation of the students putting together vacation packages. Hospitality is of course a huge industry in Florida and I have traveled extensively, to include some far-flung places. I am interested in the details of what the tasks are and then to see how the students do. Several of the high schools have Hospitality and Tourism as Magnet Programs and all the colleges and universities have degrees.