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Friday, May 07, 2010

Long Drive - Safely Home From Fort Lauderdale

Picture - Drew and Robin used to prowl these streets when they lived in South Florida. Nancy and Harry spent their honeymoon here. Now it is Jack's chance to navigate A1A.

Yesterday at 5 PM we pulled into our driveway in Tallahassee. We had left Drew and Jack off at the Fort Lauderdale Airport and drove straight home - if you do not count an hour of shopping at the outlets in Orlando. So it was roughly 8 hours of driving. Lulu had a cooler of food and drinks packed - we shared driving chores - and our Honda Odyssey purred for the 500 mile "odyssey."


While Drew attended his convention - Jack entertained us. We did lots of swimming and playing on the beach. It was very hot and luckily our condo made a big shadow on the beach after about 2 PM. If not - we would have all been scorched - it was really hot. I keep forgetting how much higher the sun is in South Florida. It feels much hotter than here in Tallahassee.

The four days went by too fast - Jack and Drew beat us home. As soon as we got home - Drew and Jack ichatted with us on the computer. Their flight was 2.5 hours.

Next time we will be together is June 20th - Jack's second birthday. So many people are showing up at Dr. Bob's house in South Carolina - the locals are calling it "Jackfest" and I expect hawkers to be selling t-shirts. Crowd estimates are upwards of 40 people.