My sweetheart is sick.

We slept a bit late Monday before eating our free breakfast.  The breakfast offered nearly anything that one could want. I didn’t have an omelet because I had those on the cruises.  Evelyn stuck with her cereal.  We then went across the highway to the birding center.  Many people come to the Valley to see rare birds, and this is where many of them migrate to.  It was sunny but quite windy.  We walked on the constructed boardwalks and saw some weird ducks out on the marshlands.  The highlight was sighting a 15 foot alligator and another only about 8 feet.  We tried to go to a Bagel shop that I had a coupon bought a month ago, but it is closed on Mondays.  We returned to our room and Evelyn assembled using the items we had brought along.  Bonny had brought some chips and vegetables from her garden. I provided the beverages, and we enjoyed the lunch.  We took a short nap afterward and then took our walk on the beach.  It was now cloudy and colder.  We were surprised to see a pile driver erecting a 20 foot pole.  He drove it into the sand until it was 10 feet high.  There were several that were cut to uniform size for making a level place to build a deck.  We walked the opposite way and then turned around and found a strange sight.  There was what appeared to be interior padded furniture outside.  We sat on it for a while and saw it was a special type of fabric that could withstand the weather.  a security guard told us we couldn’t sit there because we weren’t guests there.  We left willingly and returned to the room to change clothes.  We drove to Dirty Al’s other restaurant called Daddy’s.  It was a large restaurant on 2 floors.  There was a man singing throughout dinner.  We shared crawfish.  We returned to our room and played some more dominoes before retiring.  Evelyn began to get sick.

Tuesday She was coughing but went to breakfast after packing the suitcases and cooler.  We checked out around 10 and went to the Bagel shop to spend my coupon.  We bought sandwiches and some bagels to take with us.  We were at home by noon, shared the sandwiches and went inside to eat our lunch.  I pushed Evelyn to bed where she spent the rest of the day and evening.  I made some Ramen noodle soup for her and she ate the noodles.  I worked on the message during the evening.

Evelyn spent the night and all day Wednesday in bed.  I tried to help her all I could to relieve her.  She gets absolutely powerless when she gets a cold.  She slept all day except for lunch.  I went to the grocery to get some chicken broth for her lunch.  I also went to the Dairy Queen to get a buy one, get one Blizzard.  I brought them home so Evelyn could have one.  To my shock, she really ate only about 2 bites.  The woman, when well, covets ice cream—especially the candy shop Blizzard.  She did eat half of the soup and did sit up a while and watched some TV.  It wasn’t for long.  I watched Purdue get mopped up by IU in basketball. 

It was a nicer day, so I thought we might be able to play golf.  Armand had not been able to play yesterday, but it was too windy anyway—wind gusts to 40+ MPH.  Evelyn spent the day in bed again.  We may have to see the doctor if she doesn’t make any progress.  We ran into Lloyd, and he decided to go with us.  He is a very good golfer.  We went to our regular course where he had never played.  It was a gorgeous day, and we played well for a change.  I even shot a 48.  We came home and I fixed chicken soup for Evelyn and finished a leftover.  She lay on the couch and dozed while we watched TV and I wrote these entries.  I looked at our credit charges and found a charge from the hotel on South Padre Island that was not on our exit bill.  I will have to call them to discuss the charge.