From Florida to Flurries

To February. Wow, seriously? Over a month since my last post?!

To be fair, we were off in Florida and the Western Caribbean for a good chunk of January. I had intended to post a full vacation recap once we returned to snowy Toronto (which is, sadly, no longer snowy). Of course, I also intended to clean the apartment from top to bottom, fully unpack within a few days of coming home, organize my photos from the trip/order prints, and finish my book club novel. Three guesses as to how all that turned out...

But onwards and upwards, as one of my mom's friends always used to say. The trip? It was at once fabulous, not what I was expecting, tiring, and full of great moments and "firsts" that I will not soon forget. I actually feel like I learned a lot about myself over the two weeks we were away, and I think part of my delinquency in posting here about it all was because I was still processing everything. As for photos, I have only gone through about a third of the ones we took and I'm still waiting for some from the friends with whom we travelled, so once I get my act together (and carve out a few hours over the coming weeks) I will post a more extensive sample here and a link to the complete set on Facebook or Flickr. (As an aside, I wonder if I still remember my Flickr password...)

 

As wonderful as the trip was (two days in Miami, a day in Everglades City, a week-long Caribbean cruise, and four days in Orlando), and it was wonderful, I think both Wilson and I have a preference for shorter trips - both in distance and time. Two weeks is a fantastic break from the daily grind, but it's also a long time to be away from home, and by our last couple days in Orlando we were both happy at the thought of coming back.

So now it's business as usual around here, or as usual as life ever is for us! I have to confess there's a certain comfort of the normal weekly tasks that I need to do (cooking, laundry, workouts, church activities, etc.). But just give it a few months - I'm sure I'll be longing for the luxuries of room service, relaxing on the beach, and mid-afternoon naps in no time.