June 20th, 2008 - 4:31 pm
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Since I last wrote, it has stopped raining. The weather is glorious: high 70’s, mid 80’s, sun sun sun. I am welcomed home indeed.
Ft. Lauderdale had good weather too. It rained every day, but mostly briefly, in the afternoons or evenings, and every day there was enough sun to sit by the pool or on the beach, and most of the trip was spent sitting on sidewalks at cafes or bars drinking something slushy and enjoying the beautiful, beautiful scenery (I had no idea one place could have so very many pretty men). We fit in an airboat tour in the Everglades and a corporate REO Speedwagon concert too. In the course of four days I used an entire bottle of spray-on sunscreen, and had an unprecedented victory: I didn’t get burned. (I was religious with my sunscreen last summer at the lake and I burned anyway every time out.)
There was the unfortunate storm on Wednesday while we were waiting for our flight out of Miami, and we sat in the airport for an hour and on the runway for an hour and a half, and I was exhausted by the time I got home but glad to be there. Especially when I discovered my mom had left a basket of fruit on the counter, goodies from the Byerly’s deli in the fridge, and a note about how she thought I might not feel like grocery shopping right away. My family? Rocks.