They all can't be "easy" runs.

3 on the trails, then 1.5 miles hood route. Early sunset caught me by surprise.

I spent a couple of hours watching the boys surf south jetty today. Big wind, sloppy conditions, but always good to get my toes in the sand. 

5 on the trails. 63 deg., 59% hum., 48 d.p. Like running on another planet.

At about 4:30 pm, Boy #2 asked me to take him back to south jetty to surf. Waves were only @ 1 foot, but we took both boards. We got out there, and I tried surfing for the first time in (I think) 31 years. I caught a couple of waves but didn't get up. Next time maybe. It was fun, harder than I thought, and incredibly abusive to the nipples. We stayed until just after sunset. 

5 more on the trails. 

5 on the trails. 

4 on the trails.

2 songs in my head at different times: 

https://youtu.be/4gOYhHLKO6w

and

https://youtu.be/lI-BMDnti4c

4 on the trails. 

Then at 7:30 PM Venice High School had a football regional / district something or other playoff game. I've got a kid in the band, so I went. The governor was there. He went around and shook hands, took pictures with nearly everyone (including my son). Then he sat with the band for a while, and told the kids that they played great. Johnny said there was a time before the game where secret service had to sweep the band room, so all the kids had to get out.

Venice destroyed Plant City by eleventy points. Even when the game was out of hand, they were still running hurry up offense and throwing bombs. That kind of felt icky. 

Because "senior night" was rained out last week, it was postoned to this week. That is the half time when all of the senior football players, cheerleaders, band members, and their families are introduced and thanked as they walk across the 50 yard line. Kind of cool. But this means that the halftime show will be played AFTER the game. I'm trying to get to Gainesville, man! After the game, I went home to pick up Spouse and Tommy, and we finally took off. Spouse was asleep before we hit the intersate. We arrived in Gainesville at 1:30. 

In Gainesville. Early Kickoff. Rain before the game, missed the gatorwalk, but my kids saw it. They both fist-bumped Dan Mullen. WAY too interesting of a game for what was supposed to be a cupcake (Samford?, Really?) Didn't make the halftime show with my kids, but everyone saw it. Military Salute songs. Missed "we are the boys" with my family at the end of the third quarter. Everyone saw a post-game band performance in front of Turlington Hall, with an incredible drum line performance, but we weren't together when viewing it. And then later, the boys saw the bat houses empty. But spouse and I missed it.

For what I envisioned this weekend would be as a family bonding gator game thing, it was a complete failure. On the other hand, my sons got to experience some cool stuff, independent of me, and maybe that was the better outcome. They are teenagers, not children. I just realized this weekend that my 14 year old is taller than me.