The Sunday breakfast was a meeting of the Florida Lions Foundation for the Blind. They have been in existence longer than LCIF, and have an endowment fund of over $10M. They fund eye care with the investment proceeds, and approved over $100,000 in grants that day. Amazing! Breakfast was also very good, a buffet consisting of fruit, scrambled eggs, biscuits & gravy, sausage, bacon, and fried potatoes. Debra sat at the head table, while I sat with the spouses of the officers of the foundation, all of whom were accomplished Lions in their own right. They presented several “Grand Lion” awards (equivalent to a Melvin Jones), including one to Lion Char, who had been a Lion for a little over a year, and a second to DG Estelle. They ended by presenting Debra an Honorary Grand Lion Award.
We went up to finish packing after the breakfast, and Estelle & Ed came with the luggage cart at about 11:00. We loaded the cart, went down to the lobby where PDG Ed & Pat were waiting to take us back to the airport, and said our last goodbyes to a lot of wonderful Lions in District 35!