UNEXPECTED SNAKE SKINS AND TRIVIAL PURSUIT

Hampton Inn, Fort Myers-Colonial,  Fort Myers, Florida

Monday, January 26, 2015

60 F, Sunny

Last night before we were going to bed TK seemed to be fooling around behind the desk. He said, “This isn’t good,” as he pulled out a five foot snake skin.  I asked him to go to his sister’s immediately and tell them. It was horrible to think such a big snake was in the cabana.  As it turned out, Scorchy had found a corn snake’s shedded skin awhile back and was saving it. Are you kidding me???? TK said Scorchy was a grownup B2 (our granddaughter who loves to collect live insects –think tomato hornworm--and frogs and crayfish and other creatures)

This morning we all jumped into the Avalanche and TK drove about 3 hours to his brother Tom’s in Estero. We played an 8 hour game of the 80s Trivial Pursuit with pizza and Carol’s wonderful homemade rhubarb and strawberry pie. Playing Trivial Pursuit is a family tradition and we don’t all get together often anymore, so this was a special treat.  The 80s version is quite a challenge though. With categories like music, headlines, TV, movies, sports and leisure, and wild card. Reagan, Bush, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, The Highwaymen, Anne Frank, AIDS, Band-Aid concert, and a few more were answers we knew.  We all have our specialties—TK: music; Mary Lou: Yankees; Tom: sports and politics; Scorchy: sports; Carol: movies and television; and me:  literature ha ha—note that wasn't a category.  This game took a long time.

I really miss B1 and B2.