We’re setting out tomorrow for a few weeks in Florida! I don’t normally mince words about my opinion of Florida, so you probably know I’m not terribly excited about it, but I am looking forward to seeing friends and family there.
It’s funny how we haven’t even been gone that long – I guess it’s been nearly a year, but not quite – but this is the first time we’ve been going back there, so it does feel different. But, I mean, it will be different; they got hit by two big hurricanes after we left, so there’s been a lot of damage and rebuilding. (That is, you may know, a big part of why we left; we were there two years and lived through two hurricanes and decided we didn’t want to see any more.)
We’re gonna be staying with my parents, and we’ll be staying there long enough to be around when my sister and her husband come down to visit too, so that’ll be fun.
We’re leaving some stuff behind here, on the assumption that we’ll be coming back here after Florida. I don’t know that we’d stay here very long a second (third, kinda) time; we want to stay with our cat, but it does feel like we’re imposing. Plus, while Cassie would probably prefer to linger in VA, I think if we’re gonna be in the USA for a while longer, I’d rather try to do it on the west coast somewhere, since flights from there to Japan will be faster and cheaper. We’ll figure it out, I’m not worried, just something we’re chewing on.