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Slowing down and resting weary feet

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Coconut Grove, Miami, postaday2013, traveling

The running joke is that I broke the baby girl’s feet. Unfortunately, she is suffering from a few well placed and thus very painful blisters in her plantar areas. I went to CVS and came back armed with an antiseptic/analgesic and nice band-aids so let the healing commence.

Since we had the injured feet to deal with, we kept today quite low key, we took mass transit once again, but not for a long range adventure, we kept it simple and relatively local; Coconut Grove. We found the Cocowalk, a very pretty shopping area, a la Spanish style architecture and next door the Mayfair complex, under construction right now, but you can see how gorgeous it will be when finished. We had a filling lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and now we are back at the hotel resting the baby girl’s feet and me all over.

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On the road again

06 Saturday Jul 2013

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flying, Miami, postaday2013, traveling, walking

The baby girl and I are once again traveling, this time to Miami, Florida, to make sure that the University of Miami is the best place for her and the place that she would rather be to continue her studies and cement her future in the study of Marine Biology. We arrived early this afternoon and we have been walking around reconnoitering , which is actually a French word “reconnaitre”, to better acquaint ourselves with the city. Monday we have an appointment with the powers that be and hopefully we will go back home with the definitive answer of her housing, her financial aid and her happiness with the city of Miami and her potential new school.

I have to say that when we got to the hotel, I went to my email, opened an alert about an article in the Huffington Post written by someone I follow, and I saw the headline “plane crash in San Francisco” It is really off-putting to read about an airplane crash just an hour after you get off your own plane. We even had turbulence taking off and landing and scary thoughts had crossed my mind.

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We saw a lizard and I would have taken a picture, but I was too slow on the uptake. I saw a toad by myself on the way to CVS to get snacks, we have a refrigerator, and once again, I was too slow on the uptake. These little guys are quite feisty and I am not.

Hooray, the baby boy is back home!

01 Monday Jul 2013

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children, food, Home, postaday2013, sushi, traveling

My son is done with his recording session on Cape Cod with his band and we met him in Boston so that he can get the car to get back home to his little sister and little Jack. Since my hubby and I both missed him very much, we decided that before he got into the car, we would have a nice sushi dinner before letting him go on his merry way. My hubby took the three of us to the Kowloon restaurant, an Asian restaurant happy to serve you food from any expression of Asian cuisine. There was a selection for Thai lovers, Szechuan aficionados, Cantonese and even Sushi. While our baby boy was ordering, it was apparent that the poor boy hadn’t eaten very well or very much because he took advantage of the fact that there was something for every type of Asian craving you might be having. He ordered scallion pancakes, paper thin sliced tuna served with a spicy vinaigrette and a sushi/sashimi combo plate. I ordered two special rolls one with eel, avocado and cucumber and the other, spicy tuna and cucumber, they were both yummy. My hubby ordered pad thai, a standard Thai noodle dish, one that I have made several times at home and it is the Thai version of a comfort food dish. Noodles, ground pork, shrimp and pieces of sautéed egg with bean sprouts, cilantro and peanuts, it is a delicious combination of flavors.

We are very happy to have both of our children home now. I might be becoming like my grandmother, she was always happiest when she had everyone around her at the table. A full house, in her estimation, was a happy house. If my babies want to stay home while they are getting their lives together and their plans off the ground, I would be more than happy to have them home with us.

What have you been reading lately?

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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books, postaday2012, Reading, traveling

I am not reading anything at the moment since I am on vacation. I’m spending most of my time walking, visiting, learning and talking with my baby girl. However I did upload two books to read when I get some downtime, Paris Forever and Lunch in Paris. Essentially they are about women who decided to stop everything in their native countries and move to France. I am interested to see what things in particular drove them to simply quit their comfort zone and take the plunge in a foreign country, and why France. I know why it would be France for me, it’s because I equate France with strong family ties, I’m curious what pulled them here, if not for family.

Are you good at reading maps?

12 Thursday Jul 2012

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I am very good at reading maps, I always have been. Traveling with my sister around Europe with our backpacks, I had maps from every single town and city and finding my way was simple. Maps make sense to me, ever since I was a little girl I always liked looking at Atlases and maps plotting my next destination and revisiting roads previously traveled. I would say that since traveling has been an important part of my life since I can remember, I would say that maps would be a natural extension of that experience. I really like seeing the difference that time makes on maps, just recently there was an exciting find in Germany, a 500 year old map of the new world with the first time use of the word America, it had been found in a math book. I would have loved to have been there for that find.

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