Beth and I hosted a cookout for the victorious softball team on Tuesday. We invited everyone from the team plus families, plus the ministers, and planned for as many as 50+ people altogether. We were providing the burgers and grill, and asked everyone to bring a side dish and their own drinks. Well, we had a bunch of late cancellations but still had around 20 or so people come, and we prepped around 56 burger patties and had 30 left over. Good time though, we had several families come and let the kids use to pool and trampoline, and there was plenty of food. We’re also planning on getting performance tees for next season, with names and numbers on the backs, just like a real team!...Wednesday was water wars for Revolution since it had been cancelled a few weeks back. At the same time, FCC Kids was cancelled on Wednesday because Bob had wisdom teeth pulled and wasn’t feeling too good, and Lindsey tore something in her knee so she wasn’t feeling too good either…..Missy had her first guitar lesson on Thursday. We’ve had a guitar for her for a couple years now, and have promised her lessons for a long time, so a few weeks back when I spotted a sign on a door downtown advertising guitar lessons I finally made the call. The guy checked out the guitar and said it was in good shape and definitely playable, which is good, and Missy said she had fun. He fingertips were a bit sore afterwards though. But she’s excited about finally getting lessons…..The Zimmer Biomet picnic was this weekend. This is the first time we’ve gone since before the merger, for one reason or other. It was back at Cedar Point this year, but as before, Beth, Alex, and Missy are not roller coaster riders so I wasn’t sure what everyone would do there. As it turned out, Alex stayed behind. He had drivers’ ed on Saturday for 3 hours, which we thought he really shouldn’t miss, and he really didn’t want to go anyway, and the Monsmas agreed to have him stay over there for the weekend, so it all worked out. Beth and the girls and I all took off for Ohio on Friday evening. I had rented an Airbnb for the weekend, which was a lot cheaper than staying at a hotel at the park. It was a single-wide mobile home in a trailer park, and we had the whole house. The place was very clean, the park was very well-kept and quiet (there are no trailer parks like it anywhere near Warsaw). Everyone had their own room since Alex wasn’t with us. We spent pretty much the whole day at Cedar Point Saturday. Beth and Missy split from Natalie and I as soon as we got there, and Nat and I rode coasters all day. We rode Raptor, Iron Dragon, Rougarou, Millennium Force, Steel Vengeance, Gatekeeper, and Valraven in that order, which took all day until dinnertime. Nat also got a henna tattoo which she’s always wanted to try. We stayed overnight at the trailer again before heading home in the morning.