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It’s been a delightful few days so far on my stay-near-home vacation. I’m back at my condo for just a few hours of work today but plan to regroup with Gwendolyn on the Fort Lauderdale beach early this afternoon. We checked in to the Marriott Beach Place on Saturday. This is a nice hotel, wonderfully located in the central beach area. We can walk to just about everything. We were lucky enough to get a lovely seaview room that was just refurbished. The bellman told us we’re the first guests in it since the work was completed. That evening, we discovered that there’s a new restaurant a few steps south of our hotel and so we tried it for dinner. It’s called the H2O Café and it is terrific! I’m going to save the details for a later blog – it was that good.
Since then, we’ve enjoyed cocktails and appetizers on our balcony overlooking the ocean. We had an excellent breakfast on the beach, just as I’d envisioned a few days ago in the previous blog. We went back to H2O for late night drinks. Hmmm… Seems to be a lot of drinking and eating going on. Of course, we’ve been walking quite a bit too so I don’t feel very bad about indulging more than usual. At least that’s my rationalization.
But really, we have been doing more than just looking for the next thing to put in our mouths. Like, for instance, we took a trip on the Jungle Queen. This was something I’d been wanting to do since forever and finally we found a good time. It really was fun and, once again, this deserves a later blog all to itself. But for now suffice it to say that, although I’ve lived here for 19 years, this modern day riverboat took me to areas of Fort Lauderdale I didn’t know existed. Gwendolyn and I also went for a lovely night swim on Monday evening, with a pale half moon encircled by a summery haze above us and a tranquil Atlantic just off to our east. That’s how it’s been up to now – one pleasant experience after another, all of them sort of blending together to make for a relaxing and entertaining “staycation.” We even saw a green sky, something I can’t recall noticing before. At about sunset, a distinctly green swath of clouds was mixed among a beautiful mosaic of colors and tones, from dark gray to pale rose. This was a pastel green that subtly sliced along a broad stretch of the horizon. We both thought it was remarkable. And the best part is, we still have four more sunsets to savor before our vacation is over.
Since then, we’ve enjoyed cocktails and appetizers on our balcony overlooking the ocean. We had an excellent breakfast on the beach, just as I’d envisioned a few days ago in the previous blog. We went back to H2O for late night drinks. Hmmm… Seems to be a lot of drinking and eating going on. Of course, we’ve been walking quite a bit too so I don’t feel very bad about indulging more than usual. At least that’s my rationalization.
But really, we have been doing more than just looking for the next thing to put in our mouths. Like, for instance, we took a trip on the Jungle Queen. This was something I’d been wanting to do since forever and finally we found a good time. It really was fun and, once again, this deserves a later blog all to itself. But for now suffice it to say that, although I’ve lived here for 19 years, this modern day riverboat took me to areas of Fort Lauderdale I didn’t know existed. Gwendolyn and I also went for a lovely night swim on Monday evening, with a pale half moon encircled by a summery haze above us and a tranquil Atlantic just off to our east. That’s how it’s been up to now – one pleasant experience after another, all of them sort of blending together to make for a relaxing and entertaining “staycation.” We even saw a green sky, something I can’t recall noticing before. At about sunset, a distinctly green swath of clouds was mixed among a beautiful mosaic of colors and tones, from dark gray to pale rose. This was a pastel green that subtly sliced along a broad stretch of the horizon. We both thought it was remarkable. And the best part is, we still have four more sunsets to savor before our vacation is over.
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