Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Back From FL

Well, where do I start? I had a very good time in FL! I had my boundaries stretched! I had my share of tasting wine! I decided I need to stay away from white wine if I'm going to bed soon afterwards! The night I stayed overnight at the Girdharry's since we were leaving so early in the morning.....I had some and boy was I up alot of the night. I could not sleep #1, but #2 I woke up a few times in the night! How frustrating! Then Heather's mom Rebecca said it kept her awake as well! I forgot myself once on the trip and had some again, a different kind but was white as well. Oh, how I had a hard time going to sleep! So I will stick to red wine I guess! Of course, I don't drink more than one goblet glass so it didn't make me at all dippy or anything! I don't want to get dippy either! That's where I draw the line! I was offered beer and of course I won't touch the nasty stuff! I was surprised that they bought it alot in FL and even Rebecca drank it alot! What can I say as long as they don't get tipsy, I guess I can't say anything. I sure won't touch the crap though!

I had different foods. What fun that was! Carribean food, Trinidad food, Cuban food! They tried to get me to eat sushi but I could not bring myself to do it. Raw fish, that is just too gross. I think some of my problem is that I was taught that raw meat can make you very sick and can give you parasites/worms. So why would someone eat raw meat????? I can't understand! When I see someone eating sushi, they might as well go to the fridge and pull out a raw piece of chicken meat and devour it. I am serious, it's all one and the same to me!!!!! Now if they would have offered me some sushi without any raw meat, I would have complied, I think!

We visited Dexter's cousin. My goodness, is she ever a woman of God! I was impressed with her! I had no idea she was going to be a Believer. I was not in the door long and I heard her speak in such a way that it indicated she believed. Right away I thought she's probably just a carnal Christian but the Holy Spirit said to me, "She's one of Mine"! Wow, I was all into her then! We had some good conversation and she said maybe we can be prayer partners. So I took her email and I hope to hear from her soon! It is SOOOOOOO good to get to know other Believers. You know, I think heaven is going to be like that. I think we will constantly be getting to know others up there. What fun it will be to fellowship up there where everyone's motives are 100% pure and everyone is completely honest!

Dexter's cousin made crab soup and alot of other goodies. I ate pretty much all the other Trinidad food but the crab soup I passed up on. It was green like the color of spinach green, and had crabs in it. I could not try it, I feared it would come up before it even went down! Oh, how sissy I am to try seafood!

I think I wrote about the zoo in my last blog. We had the children on the beach some and on the boardwalk. We also had them twice in the kiddie pool. The pools at the hotel were heated. Ah, it was good. The distasteful part was getting out of the pool but other than that, it was great. Never mind the cold air! Lyla fell asleep on me while in the pool. It was so cute. I never heard of a child falling asleep in water!

The last two days we went to the Florida keys. Oh, the price of the rooms we had was $1,000 a day! But we were upgraded due to a mess up on the hotel's part! So we had the luxuries for the normal room price! So cool! Anyway, the Keys are beautiful. We had alot of nice scenery on the way. They celebrate sundown every day so we want to see that. It's kinda like a fair, but much smaller and just a few trick guys performing and some "Green Dragon" type of stands.

We did some shopping but I didn't find anything. Except for a hair barrette. We spent a few hours outside on the beach at the keys. We had only to walk out of our hotel and past the pools and right there was the beach. It was glorious. I got some good shots at the scenery and Lyla fell asleep on me on the beach lounge and ah, I was there for about 3 hours maybe 4, just chilling and relaxing. What tranquility.

It's alot of work taking the kids in and out of carseats all the time. I found that some of our stops I would have preferred to stay in the van with them rather than drag them out of their seats and know I have to put them in again. What a lazy girl. I thought of my married friends and how I can understand why they wait til their husbands are home from work so they can keep the children while they go shop. It wasn't so bad, just alot of work! I should have lost weight but ha, they fed me good on this trip. Perhaps too good!

Well, this week is full now. I got back Sunday at 1AM and had all that laundry to do and lots of mail to go through and all manner of things to catch up on. I had to work Monday but they graciously gave me off today so I could recover from traveling. I think it was to give me a break from the kids but for me it was just as much and more so I could get some things done here at home!

This week I was at a music lesson Monday night. I am going to do piano lessons again. Maybe I will be able to go back to voice eventually but for now I want to learn a little more of piano. I want to be ablet to play chords to any song. Tonight I go to the shelter. Tomorrow night I have church. They are going to review the covenant and church ideals with the applicants. Thursday night I perform in my little quartet, Friday night is family night. Saturday my cousin and aunt are here to go over some info for Karena's school project, Saturday night is a Heart to Heart meeting, Sunday is actually empty. I am going to see if Junise (girl I got to know through being at the shelter) can come and stay overnight and go to church with me. Oh, what a busy life. Seems like I am doomed to a fast paced life. I actually function the best that way though.

Well, that's all for now folks!

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