Trip to Florida

As you may have gathered by my previous post on my total disenchantment with the Miami International Airport of Mexico, i have just returned from a trip to Florida. The primary purpose of this trip was to deliver my car to Miami to be shipped to St. Maarten (more on this in the next post), but Heather and I decided to make it into a mini-vacation.

We left Baltimore at 9am Friday morning and arrived in Boca at my grandparent's place at about 12:30AM Saturday. Overall, not too bad considering about 1/2 hour lost due to a missed turn onto I-95 and breaks for food and gas. It worked out to a little under 15 hours of driving. I am not at all a fan of driving, or anything really which requires me to be seated for that length of time, but at least having Heather to talk to made it more bearable. Really, the drive wasn't that bad and it was a little fun to see how little some people have changed in the past 40 years. Specifically, I'm referring to the fact that many 50 year olds in the South seem to maintain the same education they probably had achieved by age 10. It is not everywhere, though, that people are on a first name basis with the gas station attendants. Perhaps if they spent less time talking and more time cleaning the bathrooms.......but that is another store entirely.

Anyway, the trip was overall a lot of fun. Although it was supposed to thunderstorm every day while we were in Florida, the weather could not have been better. Mostly sunny and in the 80's every day. Surprisingly, Heather even got on a jet-ski! She was previously very afraid of them, but after a little convincing, she agreed to go. And even more surprisingly, when she took over the driving, she was jumping wake!! We also did a little shopping, went to the pool, played miniature golf, visited the beach, and just spent a little time relaxing and eating delicious food. Good way to spend my second-to-last weekend before heading to St. Maarten for non-stop studying.