Debbie Birthday Weekend

My 50th birthday was last Friday. It started with a walk at Siesta Key beach with Parker and Daryl and then we went for Parlor Doughnuts (vegan!) and coffee. 

Later in the day, we drove over to Orlando and checked into a condo for two nights just off Disney property. Then we headed over to Beach Club for dinner at Cape May Cafe. We popped into Epcot for a few minutes and some pictures. 

Cape May is a buffet but they do such an amazing job on allergy food. They even brought me a special birthday dessert. 

Saturday morning, Davis and I woke up to work out in the fitness center. He put me through my paces on all the different machines. 

We had a great day hanging out in Epcot as a family. It rained a bit but we were able to stay dry in a building. 

Daryl, Wesley and Davis went home on Saturday night while Parker and I stayed in Orlando. On Sunday morning we visited the Magic Kingdom to ride Tron and also the Carousel of Progress. The Carousel of Progress is going away in its current form next month and we wanted to see it one last time. 

 

Father's Day - Boys' Night Out

On Wednesday night this week the boys took Daryl out to celebrate Father's Day with a trip to the newly remodeled Tropicana Field for a Rays game. Thankfully the Rays won. And the guys had excellent seats a few rows back from the Rays dugout. 

 

Those National Medals are Sweet!

It was HOT in Greensboro but it was a clear day for jumping. The original field was supposed to be 188 jumpers at the National Elite level. Only about 50 boys showed up to jump.  

The starting height was 1.72m. Wesley came in at 1.77m and cleared it on the first attempt.

He cleared 1.82m on the first attempt also. 

And he cleared 1.87m on the first attempt. 

At this point, there was a six way tie for first place, including Wesley! 

The next height was 1.92m. Wesley's PR is 1.93m. He missed the first two attempts and cleared the height on his third attempt. 

Only 9 jumpers moved on to the next height, 1.97m. Wesley missed all of his attempts but he was SO close. Only two boys cleared the height. Since the top 8 boys medal, our Wesley came in 5th place overall!!!!!!! We stayed for the medal ceremony, which was very nice and got some good pictures of Wesley and his sweet looking medal. 

To celebrate, we went to dinner at Mellow Mushroom and then crashed out at the hotel. 

Road Trip to Greensboro

Daryl and Wesley met me in Lakeland on Thursday afternoon and we roadtripped up to Greensboro, NC for Adidas Track Nationals. We made it to Truist Stadium at NC A&T University for packet pickup and his nationals bag. 

Afterwards we checked into our hotel downtown and went for a walk to find some dinner. 

It was Juneteenth and we happened to walk past the International Civil Rights Museum at the original Woolworth's building where the sit-ins started on February 1, 1960. 

Right in front of our restaurant Dear Dad, there were artists finishing up a beautiful Black Lives Matter mural in the road. 

Dinner was awesome! I had blackened salmon with spinach and sweet potato fries while the guys had birria quesadillas.