This weekend was spent in Florida with my family. It was a weekend marked by sitting by the pool, eating, sitting in the pool, eating, reading and laughing on Ameilia Island. It was a weekend for days without make-up and doing without fancy cameras. And so we have here, a family trip documented by phone, capturing some of our sweet time together.
Mom and I spent Thursday afternoon and the spa, and it was heavenly. She told me I seemed really happy. If you spent a weekday not thinking about numbers and emails and reports, I think you'd be happy too. :-)
Troy and I sat on our balcony Saturday morning and had breakfast. We talked. And laughed. One of the books I began to read this trip is called Cold Tangerines. It is one of those books that I will shamelessly promote from now until whenver. Because it's just.that.good. I resonated with the author when I read this quote:
"I want to hear every single little thing that my brother has to tell me...I can badger him via email and cell phone all year long about his life or his girlfriend or his job, and end up knowing very little, but on vacation, sometimes he gets on a roll, and I want to be there when he does, even if it means we sit on the dock till the sun sets and we're freezing, or even if I have to play basketball with him at the court in town."
{And lest you think that we have the most perfect brother/sister relationship, let me assure you that we do not. We still disagree and "have words" with each other, sometimes. But that's just part of life.} :-)
I stayed in my jammers that morning until noon, just soaking up the balcony time, reading, listening to music and relaxing. Have I mentioned that I was really happy? Because I was totally soaking up this vacation!
Friday night in Jacksonville, we met up with my cousins, aunt, uncle and Papa for dinner. We were all in town to see the Players Championship Golf tournament, thanks to Aussie's job with the PGA.
Saturday was our day to go out to the tourney, and after battling traffic for 2 hours and getting to the course, it started raining, and they suspended play. Not a great day for golf, but we made friends and memories, despite not having seen a single stroke played.
We ate at Salsas Saturday afternoon after the rain cleared up and we could walk to our car without getting completely drenched. You'll notice that Dad looks a little beat up. He fell running a few weeks ago and broke both radius bones in his arms...major bummer. He's in slings, but no casts and no surgery. It makes doing simple things like opening a water bottle challenging. Traveling is pretty much out of the question for now, unless he has help...which in this case, he did!
After Linner, we went to an outdoor shopping mall and walked around.
Papa came with us and even found some shoes!
A late night snack at Mickey-D's. Dad was super excited because it was an original McDonald's and asked the casheir about its history. She had no idea. Ha. But we looked at photos in the restaurant and Dad just thought it was one of the coolest things. This makes me laugh. :-)
We flew back Sunday afternoon and got to ease back into reality. I did laundry, grocery shopped and made dinner for AMP, who I missed a whole lot. We've got a wedding this weekend (and then the next one we'll go to will be our own!), and then Memorial Day weekend. May is just flying by!
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