"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." (Robert Frost)

Last night Robin and I met Magda Machado Garshol and Knut at the Gaucho Rodicio Brazilian restaurant in Lighthouse Point. The restaurant was pricey, but the service and the food were outstanding. If you drank a 1/4 inch of your water it was filled almost instantly. I didn't bring my checkbook, but Knut and Magda were kind enough to foot the bill. It must be the place to go if you have an event to celebrate, because the staff sang "Happy Birthday" at least to four people at different tables. It was good to see Knut and Magda (former student) once more--as it always is, and I hope to see her once again much sooner.

In about an hour I have to go for my second aquatherapy session with Robin to accompany me, and then we have to go pick Rhoda up at the PBI airport where she is returning from a weekend visit to her daughter and granddaughters. I judge that much of her visit was spent watching the girls play in their soccer games. Tonight we'll go out dining again, but I have no idea at this time where. Tomorrow, Robin wings her way home to Montana after her own weekend visit here. We had a very good time here enjoying each other--but she can be a loose cannon at times.

I previously had promised to stay away from things political, but I find that it's simply not possible in this election year--the most important in my lifetime. One of the things that puzzles me is that when I watched McCain and Sarah Palin campaigning and the crowds were shouting, "USA,USA" and holding up signs "Our Country First" or something to that effect, how Sen. McCain could possibly be thinking about the welfare of this country when he selected someone as unpresidential as Sarah Palin to lead us in the event of his death in office? If one watched SNL last weekend, one could hardly tell the difference between Palin and Tina Fey. In fact, in the poll SNL took after the show, asking who the audience would rather hear, Fey had a whopping lead of 40%. I wonder if a majority of those who vote for McCain believe, too, that Gov. Palin could be President of the United States. We may never know. I'm sure Sen. McCain could lead the country, but I don't like the path he says he would take. Robert Frost wrote, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by--and that has made all the difference." I do hope the one "less traveled by" is the one that wins this election.