We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my family. Andrew and I did a 12 mile run mid-morning and then we had a huge dinner with my family. We went to church and then headed up to my grandparents' house for late night snacks and visiting with my aunt, uncle and cousin. Christmas Day was spent at my parents' house. After a morning run with Mom and Joy, both Mom and Dad's families came over at various times throughout the day and we really did get to see everyone. Yay!!
On Wednesday Keeper and I flew into West Palm Beach to spend a few days with Dad and Cookie. Although I was glad to get back to warm weather, I really wasn't expecting the mid-80s with high humidity. I guess we are just spoiled now, but both times I ran in Florida SUCKED because I wasn't used to humidity! Keeper played some golf Thursday morning and we went out to dinner Thursday night at City Place. Friday the two of us rented a car to drive out to the gulf side of Florida to see Keeper's mom, grandparents, and aunt and uncle for a day. We somehow lucked out with the rental car and ended up with a black Pontiac Solstice convertible and it was really fun to drive. We spent all of 24 hours in the Tampa area and then headed back to the east coast. On Sunday, I played my first 9 holes of golf. I had fun and it was a positive experience overall (especially since I was allowed to tee off numerous times on the fairway and we only kept my score for 2 holes).
On New Year's Eve we drove to down to the Everglades for a 2 hour
tram ride to see some birds and gators. It was a really great time despite our way-too-chatty tour guide. She kept promising to "be quiet for a few minutes and let us view on our own...." but that never happened. Oh well. I want to go back again next year and rent b
ikes to ride. We had dinner outside of Miami and then headed back to Palm Beach Gardens for a heated game of Trivia and watching the ball drop on TV.On Tuesday I was supposed to have a direct flight from PBI back to BWI. It shouldn't be much of a surprise to learn that AirTran oversold the flight and I got bumped, leaving me with a much later flight out of PBI and a connection in Atlanta. My plans to see family at my grandparents' house on New Year's Day were shot. Keeper's flight to Tampa got delayed, he then missed his connection and finally got back to Phoenix much later than expected. I did get some compensation for my troubles and those 2 free tickets will certainly come in handy this summer/fall. I spent Wednesday to Saturday back in York with my family. I did some tax-free clothes shopping with my sisters (yay, PA!) on Wednesday, and spent some time with Pappy, Grandma, and Grandmom
on Thursday and Friday. It was nice to have a few days at home playing with Cooper (see right) and spending time with my little sister who was home on college break and my parents. We got up at the butt crack of dawn (well middle of the night) so that I could make my 6am flight out of BWI on Saturday morning and now I am back to the land of 60 degree weather with no humidity. School started back up for me today as well as soccer practice in the mud...we have 7 games left of our season and I'd like to pull a few more wins out.
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