We were invited to a party at one of our friends house's in West Palm Beach for Memorial Day weekend. Every year we are invited to a weekend long party at Eric's house in West Palm Beach. The tradition started about six years ago with about four or five couples and now has grown to about twelve to fifteen couples. Saturday we typically go out on his boat and Sunday we typically go golfing and on Monday there is brunch and polo tournament before we all have to get back to our lives.
The twins were going to be at their grandma's house (my parents), and Beth went up to the Hamptons with one of her friends.
So Friday after work, I had the driver pick Caroline up at home and me at work to take us to the airport. The private jet company had come by earlier in the day to pick up our luggage. We were greeted by a young lady named Kelly, who at the time, I guessed was around 26 or 27 years old. She thanked us for flying with them and informed us that she would be our in-flight concierge for the flight. The pilot came out of the flight deck, greeted me, and asked me if it was ok to take off. I said yes.
Kelly was very attractive, and I couldn't figure out whether she was flirting with me or not. Caroline went to the back to lay down for a little while and Kelly came out and just started talking to me. She said she was new to the aviation company and she had just gotten this job about a month ago. She told me that they only get paid by the flight hour and she was trying to get in as many flight hours as possible. Oh, and I found out she was 24.
West Palm Beach started out being a lot of fun. About 24 of us ended up going on the boat. We did a little drinking, fishing, hot tubbing, and sun worshiping. When we got back to the house, I checked my cell phone and there was a message from a client of mine who is the CEO of a company, and he told me that his company is in merger talks with a company in London. He wanted to give me a courtesy call to let me know that before I heard it from someone else. The company in London is using one of our competitors for the merger financing. Since this is going to be probably a big merger, I definitely wanted a piece of it.