Remembering Why

So the weekend was spent something like this...

Saturday we went shopping for all of our parrotphinalia and then picked Mariah up from the airport. The afternoon was spent sipping Margaritas and dining al fresco on the lake in Town Center and then off to the Jimmy Buffet show while my very good friend Mariah kept our little monkeys. It was fun. I got to hear all my favorite songs and watch several thousand people act insane. Then Sunday morning Mariah and I chased the Sunrise over Chai Lattes and then off she went back home. I returned home to find the family up and ready to take off for the day so we headed down A1A and chased the sunset to Key West. Monday was spent laying on the beach and playing in the sand and surf. Watching all the sail boats in the coves surrounded by the coolest turquoise colored water up and down A1A makes me want to live on a boat so badly. Sunbathing naked on the deck and hopping around the coast doesn't sound like a bad life does it?

Weekends like that and days like yesterday make me remember why I wanted to come here to begin with. Somehow between housework and kids and work and bills we forget why we're here.

Bella was bored to death with South Beach
Not one celebrity spotted in days
She was tired of her mood
Lunchin’ on vegan food
She was tired of just soakin’ up rays then she saw him pull up to the stoplight
In an old ragtop that she couldn’t name
He said “hop inside I’m headin’ south take a ride
I’m just the next man that you’re gonna blame”
U.S. 1, headin’ down U.S. 1

Lenny said how ‘bout lunch in Key Largo
There’s a fish sandwich place down the road
Kinda out in the sticks
But we can be back by six
And never leave our area code

Well geography wasn’t her strong point
She’d never been past the Dadeland mall
So they stopped on the way
Lenny was happy to pay
For her new thong and purple beach ball

They’re goin’ conky tonkin’
Cruisin’ on a weekend buzz
Really conky tonkin’
Doin’ it just because

Havin’ too much fun to turn back
They were explorers in a hot rod Ford
They counted seabirds and cars
Stopped at all the cool bars
Harmonically they struck a chord

Stop! What was that
Somewhere in the middle of the Seven Mile Bridge
He said bella do you want to see the rest
She said “I haven’t a care
Lenny, just take me there”
And they drove on all the way to Key West

Well she’d never seen anything like it
In all of her twenty-six years
Bella was feeling the groove
Lenny was makin’ his move
They were quite a pair of pioneers

They’re goin’ conky tonkin’
Cruisin’ down U.S. 1
They’ll be conky tonkin’
Tryin’ to catch up with the sun

They’ll be conky tonkin’
Their engine is about to explode
Goin’ conky tonkin’
Hey they’ll meet you at the end of the road

Conky Tonkin' - Jimmy Buffet

Posted by gwendolyn on February 22, 2005 at 09:11 AM