This has to rank as one of the best fathers days of my life!!! Kind of a buffett day in paradise.
1st, the daughter bought me a beautiful mini-surfboard (one of those little desk top types), then my son got me a book about the USCG
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written by a guy with my same name (first and last!
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) That one really got me
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The wife got me a really nice (I mean tear jerking) card with wording that just really made my day
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and a frameable picture of Mr. Jimmy Buffett
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The biggest thing is I had both kids together along with the grand daughter.
We had lunck at Sam's Beachbar in Hudson, and Ice cream at a littler Ice Cream shop down the way. The weather, water view and gulf breeze was perfect
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I just wish my dad were still here to have enjoyed it
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, but somehow I know that in his own way, he was watching
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Came home and went
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(something I hardly ever get to do).
Enjoy your kids while you have them around. They grow up waaaayyy to fast.
Like I said, it ranks with one of the best ever