Days Inn Hotel & Suites Tarpon Springs

Trin-i-tee 5:7 As In T57 Did A New CD!! Call Love, Peace, And Joy At Christmas And It's Excited!! I love The Trin-i-tee Look With There R&B Style And The Soul Look I Love Many Of There Songs Like The Christmas Song And This Christmas Those Are My Favorties.

... of beer and wine could calm us down :-)

So, Palm Harbor is the beautiful suburb in (or just outside?) Tampa where some of my family have settled. The life that Americans seem to live is a good one (speaking from a Floridian point of view of course cos thats all we have seen of the states so far). People are friendly, happy, relaxed and helpful and most want to know where in the South of Africa we are from as they know some one in the North of Africa (!) HAHA Shame that ...

... which I was grateful for. I had thought that I was going to have to drive us home that night, but Conrad agreed that it would be better for us to stay there for the night. It didn't take long before the jetlag caught up to us. We called our perspective parental units to let them know we had arrived safely, got some food in our bellies, and passed out!! In the morning we head home, where we can see our girls and the comfort of our own beds ...

... Bed Bath & Beyond. Must travel with a neck pillow on long flights!
Back at Gram's, Conrad is working with Bruce doing fix-it stuff. Owning your own hostel allows you to learn how to fix stuff, whether you wanted to know it or not! I took pictures so that everyone could get an idea of what Gram's ...

... bed (at least I hope)!
So we headed to my parents' house to say goodbye. There we got to meet George, the CUTEST little chihauha (is that spelled right)? He is SO CUTE!! I want to take him home with us when we get back. Mom & Dad are just fostering him, but I told her that I want him when we get home ...

16 September 2009

Okie dokie. I told you all I would start a blog to document my big, pointless, post-grad adventure to Ireland, so here it is. Since both the act of traveling to Europe and that of setting up a blog seem to be the new acts of "getting a job" and “setting up a direct deposit bank account” for the college grads of 2009 who didn't go to law school, I figure I should get going with this blog thing, being that I’m ...

... few food items for my cousin in Georgia. Still all went through smoothly. We managed to find the hire car transportation, and arrived at the Hertz depot to join yet another long queue for an hour, jees I know us Brit's like queuing but this is getting a bit tiresome now! Once on the road it took us about 2 hours to drive out to Lake Tarpon. Just a provisions stop on the way, and a takeaway ...

... sat watching the sunset, I got a view of one of the couples cutting her husbands' hair on the front deck of the boat while another couple caught several fish off their stern. So, Gene and Maggie, while Kilkenny Creek still gets number one vote as the worst marina experience, this one comes in a close second. We plan on getting the heck out of Dodge first thing in the morning and heading to a town called Yankeetown. More later...

... port that is the biggest in the world, with Greek restaurants, etc. We looked round the port and 'enjoyed' some female retail therapy before staying nearby for an easy night, some internet catchup and a good Greek supper. Distance driven 50 miles

... the land all hint at your location. The docks were easy to locate with just simple directions printed out before we left. (This was before fancy in car GPS systems on every dash in America.) As we approached the dock, I was amazed when my father pointed out the ship. I had been on a boat or two before, but I never expected to see something this large! After a quick and well ...