well, i did bring my computer with me. actually, MFH suggested we bring it and he dragged it around the airport and he managed to get the internet to work except we had to dial-in using jerri in la’s phone number. yeah, weird. we allegedly get free long-distance calls here, so hopefully that’s true.
so, things are GREAT here in florida and i would like to vacation forever. today we went on a tour of the intracoastal waterway and sailed past mansion after mansion and WHERE DID THESE PEOPLE GET ALL THIS MONEY AND WHY DON’T I HAVE ANY OF IT??? lots of people who own various sporting teams, people who are the heads of companies, stuff like that. probably lots and lots of doctors and lawyers, too, although they didn’t mention them so much except for one plastic surgeon. barbara mandrell. johnny weismuller’s (former, since he’s dead now) house. a little ramshackle place that allegedly used to belong to sonny and cher. lee majors’ old house.
plus we saw a cruise ship. looking at a cruise ship made me want to go on a cruise again, except i guess i don’t really want to go on one in reality. because if you think about it, most of the cruise ship stuff is really just about eating and drinking and watching shows and stuff, it’s not about being out on the water.
many people in ft. lauderdale are quite tan. apparently they haven’t heard about skin cancer from getting too much sun. also there are many people walking around all over the place in their swimming suits.
tomorrow we’re going on a snorkeling/glass bottom boat tour. it leaves at 10 in the morning, and everybody is acting like this means we have to get up SO EARLY. my parents are here, along with kevin. my parents are already in bed, in anticipation of getting up VERY VERY EARLY. i mean, the place is about five minutes away, we won’t really have to get up early.
but we did have a very busy day. in addition to the boat ride, we also walked around on Los Olas Boulevard, which is an extremely EXREMELY fancy street chock full of very very pricey shops. dad bought a nice white jacket. we bought some fudge. we looked at some very beautiful dresses, which i’m sure cost about a bazillion million dollars.
we went out for dinner to a nice steak place. it rained a couple of times today, and when it rained, IT POURED but luckily we were inside buying fudge so we didn’t get wet. it rained yesterday, too, but we were inside baskin robbins at the time.
the place we’re staying in is beautiful. i’m going to take some pictures of it so i can put them up here when i get back. it’s a lovely two bedroom apartment with lovely furniture and a flat-sc’reen tv mounted on the wall. when we got here at midnight on saturday we couldn’t find the tv in the living roomm and kept looking all over for it and finally i said THERE IT IS ON THE WALL!
outside the balcony is one of the many intracoastal waterways, and there are VERY BIG FANCY EXPENSIVE BOATS moored. some of them are yachts. there’s a couple on a huge sailboat and dad talked to the man for a while and this couple has been sailing the world for the past nine years! how about THAT. they must really get along well. what if they run out of water? but i guess that’s not a worry anymore because now they’re going to sell the boat and do something else.
what if they were in a horrible storm with waves the size of an apartment building? kevin kept trying to tell me that you could spring back up, like a cork bobbing in the water, but i just didn’t buy it. but somehow the couple did anage to not get swept away by storms or sharks.
vacationing, a very very good thing. i hope you’re doing well.
ok then,
june grace.