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Went to Orlando Saturday to get Katje and kid from the airport. After the usual excessive delays and other glitches we stayed overnight and then headed for Tampa to see Mandy. Then I realized I had completely and totally screwed up.
1. I did not put Mandy's address and phone number in my PDA.
2. When I printed out a map so I could find her apartment again I forgot to write the apartment number on it.
I had been there before so we wandered around the apartment complex for an hour in 100 degree heat while I tried to remember where they were until my brain finally started working and I thought to see if there might be a wireless signal in there we could leach off of long enough for me to retrieve that all important email. It worked. It turned out I had the right street to begin with but didn't think that they were that close to the entrance and drove right by.
We were shortly waking Mandy and Rowan up because
3. I forgot to call Mandy as promised before leaving Tampa so she would be awake and dressed when we got there.
But once all were together a good time was had. We didn't have enough time to go to the Dali museum as planned but we headed to Municipal Pier in St. Pete and had a wonderful lunch at the Columbia, an extremely good Cuban restaurant that has a solid wall of windows overlooking the bay. It's on the third floor so you can look down at pelicans and gulls flying by as well as look at all the pretty sail boats on the water.
We also spent time at the Pier's mini aquarium oohing over anemones and sea horses and other inhabitants of their big salt water tanks.
Mandy was nice enough to drive us out there and back since I hate the Franklin bridge.
Then it was a non-stop drive from their apartment to Welborn where Katje is going to be staying with an aunt until her apartment in Gainesville is ready, unpacking several hundred pounds of luggage, and then home way past my bedtime.
*Whew*
Lets do it again without* the various minor crisises and the need for the forced march back home at the end.
*Thank you Christina
1. I did not put Mandy's address and phone number in my PDA.
2. When I printed out a map so I could find her apartment again I forgot to write the apartment number on it.
I had been there before so we wandered around the apartment complex for an hour in 100 degree heat while I tried to remember where they were until my brain finally started working and I thought to see if there might be a wireless signal in there we could leach off of long enough for me to retrieve that all important email. It worked. It turned out I had the right street to begin with but didn't think that they were that close to the entrance and drove right by.
We were shortly waking Mandy and Rowan up because
3. I forgot to call Mandy as promised before leaving Tampa so she would be awake and dressed when we got there.
But once all were together a good time was had. We didn't have enough time to go to the Dali museum as planned but we headed to Municipal Pier in St. Pete and had a wonderful lunch at the Columbia, an extremely good Cuban restaurant that has a solid wall of windows overlooking the bay. It's on the third floor so you can look down at pelicans and gulls flying by as well as look at all the pretty sail boats on the water.
We also spent time at the Pier's mini aquarium oohing over anemones and sea horses and other inhabitants of their big salt water tanks.
Mandy was nice enough to drive us out there and back since I hate the Franklin bridge.
Then it was a non-stop drive from their apartment to Welborn where Katje is going to be staying with an aunt until her apartment in Gainesville is ready, unpacking several hundred pounds of luggage, and then home way past my bedtime.
*Whew*
Lets do it again without* the various minor crisises and the need for the forced march back home at the end.
*Thank you Christina
posted by Ranuel | 5:53 AM
2 Comments:
You want to do it again with the forced march and all?!? Wow, you are a much more energetic woman than I!
*grumble* Do you know how many times I read that and failed to notice the missing "out"????
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