As it happened, it wasn't moving day after all.
I was outside, doing my walkaround, sort of a pre-leaving ritual I had developed. I wasn't actually doing anything, but I always liked to do a quick check and remind myself what I needed to do.
It was early so I was kind of surprised when I heard a greeting.
I looked up and it was Steve and Gwen, the guy I had seen setting up yesterday and then lifting the girl into her wheelchair. We had met, briefly, last night between songs and beers.
"Mornin'," I said as he approached. Gwen was right behind him, her strong arms moving the unpowered chair with skill.
"We didn't get a chance to talk much last night," he said and I chuckled, "but we'd like to invite you to dinner this evening."
"Well," I said, starting to tell him that we would be heading out today but he interrupted me.
"Gwen really liked your music and," and here he chuckled, "I really liked your wife's ass and we'd like to see if you're interested."
I looked at Gwen, her strong arms displayed by the sleeveless T-shirt she wore, this one advertising some restaurant of which I had never heard, her legs strapped to the footrests with what looked like velcro straps and the sudden image of taking this crippled girl to bed won the internal argument for me.
I grinned and said, "what time and what do we need to bring?"
"Oh, say seven," he said, matching my grin, and if you have some of those gummies laying around that would be nice. We have beer and wine.
"Done," I said.
So they continued their morning promenade and I finished my walkaround.
Inside I watched Fox News and waited for Paula to wake.
When she did get up I heard her pee and brush her teeth and then she walked into the front room, walking a bit funny I thought.
"Sore?" I asked by way of greeting.
She giggled and closed the distance between us so I was nose to pussy with her.
"A very pleasant soreness," she said in that cooing voice she used when she was feeling particularly horny.
I laughed and slapped her ass.
"Rest, wench," I said, "and get us coffee." I held my cup out to her.
She snorted, giggled, took my cup and went over to the Keurig machine, putting a LOT of swing into those magnificent hips of hers.
"We have a dinner date," I said.
"Oh?" she asked, "with?"
"Steve and Gwen," I said and I watched her face as she made the connections.
"The girl in the wheelchair and her dad?" she asked.
"Yep," I confirmed.
"Oh my," she said, looking at me from the corner of her eye.
I laughed and said, "he REALLY likes your ass."
We sat and worked on the map for a while, figuring our next stop.
We spent that day doing a combination of sightseeing and the beach. I mean, why visit the Gulf coast if you're not going to spend time on that white sugar sand. Besides that, I LOVE the looks my wife draws in her string bikini.
We had lunch at a local place where we both slurped down oysters and beer, giggling, talking about the mythical aphrodisiac effect of oysters in voices not really loud, but not trying to hide our conversation either. I laughed and offered my beer in an across-the-aisle toast as a matronly woman, I presumed the guy's wife, giggled at something Paula said. The husband scowled and I laughed and toasted him too.
It was a good day.
We arrived at Steve and Gwen's place at 7:00 sharp, bearing a package of my favorite Sativa marijuana gummies and a Key Lime pie we had purchased after trying a slice at the restaurant.
I wasn't sure how it would play out. We were still VERY new to the Flamingo Life and had never been with a father-daughter couple before. Hell, we had never imagined such a thing existed.
I did the introductions for Paula and then opened my package of gummies with a bit of a flourish.
"These are 10-milligram gummies," I said, "and I will cut one in half for Paula and me. You guys are welcome to try as much as you'd like but I'll tell you, I'm still fascinated by how much better this stuff is than what I was sneaking as a college student."
I cut one in half and offered half to Paula and then passed the little cutting board to Steve. He cut one in half and handed the board to Gwen who grabbed a whole gummy and put it in her mouth.
He turned out to be a good cook and the fish dinner he had prepared was world-class-restaurant quality. It was served as a full meal with a salad course that had an absolutely delicious dressing ("my own recipe," Steve had said), the fish with a small baked potato, corn on the cob, and the tiniest baby peas I had ever seen.
And we talked in that way I was learning was normal in the Flamingo Life. It was an odd mixture of learning each other but with a lack of inhibition you would expect from someone who had explained a dinner invitation with an announcement that he REALLY liked my wife's ass.
Their trailer was full of interesting modifications. Well, of interesting handholds. Gwen had very strong arms and moved around confidently, pulling herself hand over hand, moving easily from place to place, and pulling herself up onto the couch. She had an odd grace as she moved, her legs dragging behind her.
The story, it turned out, was that she had been a world-class gymnast. She had reached what she called "Elite" status and had tryouts for the Olympic team scheduled. And then she had a stupid accident.
"It was one of those stupid things that happen," she had said, open about her "being a cripple" as she called it with a giggle.
"I had done the really scary things," she said, "the uneven bars and the balance beam. Hell, my floor routine was dangerous itself with all the big twists I had in it. Then I was going to do my vault, normally my best, well, my easiest, event. I was making the run and my foot just slipped and I tried to catch myself and when I hit the horse I just caught myself exactly wrong and broke my back."
She said this all very matter-of-factly but I thought I heard quite a bit of emotion.
"So here I am, everybody's favorite cripple," she said.
The pot had taken hold and Paula was hanging onto Steve's arm, doing that two-hand-on-the-arm thing that all women seem to know how to do on an instinctive level and all men find irresistible.
She stood, suddenly, and offered her hand to Steve.
"Take me to bed, Goose, or lose me forever," she said, stealing the line from "Top Gun."
He stood, grinning as well.
She kissed me, lightly on the cheek, and said, "don't hurry, baby."
Gwen and I watched them leave and then, "alone at last" as they say, I felt an odd awkwardness.
"Oh Jesus," she said, grabbing one of the ubiquitous handholds and swinging over to sit on my lap, "don't get all inhibited on me now."