Dang it, we always want to go to this and we always have something else already scheduled. This year it's my second tri out of four. That's really too bad.
I wonder if we could just go for the 4th and 5th.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks