HappyPappy Blog

I won’t bore anyone with the details of our flight other than to say a direct flight from Calgary to Orlando beats stopping in that poophole of the universe known as Toronto.This is our first holiday in about 4 years so I’m trying to log it so I can remember what a vacation is in case I don’t get a holiday for another 4 years.Mar 10th, well the rain stopped sometimes last night. I couldn’t sleep and watched the sun rise this morning. Came up at exactly 6:20EST, it was weird, in Calgary the dawn/dusk takes forever, here it was “BOOM SUNS UP!!!”

I went back to bed for a few hours and was woken up later by workmen who are still doing repairs to the condo from the hurricanes. It drives dad around the bend, personally I think it’s a small price to pay for living 100 feet from the beach

At some point in the morning the clouds cleared up and it was nice and sunny but still %$#$@%@#$$%@# cold. At some point a local lady said “hey do you know your kids lips are blue???” to which I answer “yeah we’re from Canada, keep walking granny”. The kids didn’t care they ran straight back into the ocean. Jeremy had to be rescued at one point when he got knocked over by a wave, I had to run in and get wet….all I’m gonna say about going in the ocean yesterday is refer to the episode of Seinfeld where George experienced “shrinkage”….took me about 20 minutes to find my equipment to go pee.

We all went to bed exhausted but happy.

Mar 11th, today was much warmer and we made a bee line to the beach right after breakfast.

Seagulls and pelicans were our neighbors for most of the day.

The sun was beating pretty hard and everyone got a bit of sunburn. The kids are sand babies and have to be washed (hosed down) every time we go to the beach.

I tried going in the water again and ran right out with another incident of shrinkage.

At exactly 4:42 we saw the launch of an the Atlas satellite which is the largest commercial satellite ever launched (see picture).

Getting used to having light suppers with dad…fresh shrimp the size of my fist (fresh from the dock) and melon.

Off on our cruise tomorow….