Sunshine State

B- Greetings from Florida. Our mini-vacation has been quite nice indeed! The weather has been great and we found a nice beach. The water is a bit cool upon entering but after a while of frisbee throwing & diving to catch it, it warms up quite nicely.

Last night we had dinner with a good friend and her husband. They have a beautiful house here and are doing well. Unfortunately the night was interrupted by a migraine, category: severe. But we still enjoyed ourselves!

Today we hit the outlet mall, still searching for a few items for East Timor, and then back to LC, LA.

On the way in we passed over the bridge in Pensacola that got washed out by Hurricane Ivan last year. It's amazing what a hurricane can do. They had metal grating in place of concrete so that people could still use the bridge. Here's hoping Florida makes it better this year than last year during hurricane season.

Well, Travis is standing here but says he doesn't have anything to add. Well, he changed his mind...heeeeeeeeeeeere's Travis!

Right. Thank you, thank you. Bekah and I have cut down our wardrobe to little more than what we're bringing to East Timor and we've been "testing our equipment," so to speak. We used my backpack for this trip, I've been wearing my eyeglasses much more than usual, and our Chacos sandals are almost always on our feet. So far, so good.

Monday, we did our first test-pack where we put everything we were going to bring to East Timor on our bed and we then made a list, to see if we had too much, or too little.