Huh. I'd like to back up a little bit and list the things we know were going on from the 27th to the 30th:
He had just been off with TH buying a car while skipping out on a conference. The conference is thought to be the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy held April 27 to 29. (Link here.) At one point, he called Gail to tell her he was seeing a lawyer; I think this was Tuesday the 27th IIRC.
On the 29th he came home early from the conference. There was the 911 incident where Gail was given the number of a safe place, but decided to go to the lake house with the kids and 2 dogs instead. On the 30th, Gail came back while calling LE and DN asking for help because she was scared. She dropped the kids off and left, somehow alerting MP to the fact the kids were there.
After all that, he was having a ton of fun that very evening.
MP seems to have been at the least irritated with Gail for leaving the kids "alone without supervision." Combine that irritation with the 911 incident the day before, the escalation of a pending divorce, and work stress from skipping out on a conference with the co-worker he was dating, you'd think he would be anything BUT jovial.
Glorias, The Tuesday before Gail disappeared would have been the 26th..The storms came through on Wednesday the 27th of April..
IMO..In reference to all his jovial, engaging behavior at the "Lookouts" game on the 30th I suspect it was all well planned and staged...IMO.. I also suspect he felt it most necessary to make certain he was highly visible to others on that particular evening..... JMHO..