Last night we were headed to dinner with our friends Gerry and Marcie and two other couples who are friends of theirs from Florida. Earlier in the day Gerry called Lori saying he wanted to get a chest x-ray and some labs done. His doctor, who we know from Chicago, told him to do so after he complained of being tired and had slight chest pains. Lori told him to go straight to the ER. Gerry, of course, put it off until the middle of the afternoon. So when he finally went in, he wasn’t done by dinner. Getting there that late, they told him they wanted to run some more tests and keep him over night. We all found this out when Marcie met us at the restaurant. Marcie, Lori, our new friends from Florida and I had dinner and then went to Marcie’s after dinner while Gerry spent the night at the hospital.
The two couples we met were super nice and we hit it off with them right away. During the night we all exchanged contact info and Lori and I are headed to Miami sometime soon to go out on their boat. Turns out their “boat” is more like a few hundred-million-dollar yacht. It’s well over 100 feet long and 40 feet wide. I knew something was up when the girls sat down, and I saw their jewelry as it was kind of in your face. Lori told me each of the girls wedding rings are worth well over a couple million dollars. We found out later that Ann and Ari are one of the richest families in the Country and Marco and Ely do pretty well themselves. Marco sells yachts and that’s how they met Ann and Ari. You’d never know they were really that wealthy if the girls, especially Ann, wasn’t wearing in excess of 3 or 4 million dollars’ worth of diamonds. I didn’t pick up on it as I thought they just had nice rings, but Lori sure did. Anyhow, Ari and Marco were super nice and invited me golfing today, but I passed. Super nice people though. Ann is my age and Ari, her husband, is 72. He was a paratrooper in the Israeli Army when he was younger. Marco and Ely are Cuban and met in Miami when they were just 14. Both girls are urging Lori to start a concierge medical service and said they’d help her get going. It was a super fun evening and we’re for sure headed to Miami as they made us promise we’d come down. Just regular, good people, with a lot of money.
Today it’s cooler up here and nice. We’ll head to the gym and then I’m not sure what we’re doing. Lori will call the hospital this morning to check on Gerry. She’s sort of his go to on call medical person whenever he has a problem. We’ve known them for well over 10 years.
Boys are fine, the smoke from the California fires isn’t as bad this morning, and the weather is nice. Looking forward to football tomorrow. Lori is going on a hike with Phoebe who is coming up from Denver. Hard to believe it’s already the 10th of September. make it a great day, God Bless.