Adventuresome
Thursday, Mariah flew into town and we spent the day shopping for lingerie and then late night walking around Towne Centre and talking over Chai Lattes.
Friday, we played in the woods with some other homeschooling families.
Saturday we chased the sun down A1A in a Mustang convertible, dined in Margaritaville, walked around Key West, and took pictures at Southernmost Point in the middle of the night. On the way home we nearly got the Mustang towed away by a giant penis disguised as a Monroe County Sheriff.
Sunday, we shuttled around the airport chatting it up with the shuttle bus driver and acquired a possessed red Sebring convertible, and then whittled away the evening getting flirted with by various old men (and a couple of brave younger ones), all while playing the slot machines and floating in International waters well off of the twinkling coastline of Ft. Lauderdale/Aventura/Miami. After returning to the mainland we got lost on the very non perimeting Perimeter Road around the airport trying to exchange said possessed car for a lesser possessed silver version, which was accomplished relatively easily once we found the non padlocked entrance to Avis.
Monday, the children and I rested while Mariah visited family in Ft. Pierce. Then in the afternoon we went back to the airport to return the silver convertible. We spent the evening with the children and gave Mr. Monkey a well needed break from being The Best Dad And Husband In The Whole Freaking Universe so he could go see Monster at the theater.
Tuesday, we sat on the beach for an hour and ate lunch and then made our way over to a friend's house and ate King's Cake while attending a Mardi Gras party complete with a congo line of six year old Brownies, plus siblings. Then we had to take Mariah back to the airport and put her on a plane for home.
Lots of other interesting things happened in between and we had a lot of fun. I hope she did, anyway. And so begins the second leg of the week in the Monkey household.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 25, 2004 at 08:36 AM