when it rains it pours

Last night, trying to find a comfortable position to sleep on my sunburn (oh Miami sun, you are sneaky), there was a continuous loud rumbling sound. “Is that the air conditioning making that much noise?” I asked Rasmus? “No, I think it’s the rain…” he replied. We got up to look and it was indeed…

my one weekly appointment

I don’t have any friends here in Florida. Except Rasmus of course. It’s been a great couple of months – we’ve done so much and I’ve enjoyed so many moments. But there have been a thousand other moments when I’ve been terribly homesick for all my friends back in Brussels. When I’ve really wanted to…

holiday weekend

Saturday Ate breakfast at IHOP had a five hour nap in the afternoon (apparently I was tired – Rasmus played golf) watched the sunset from Fort Myers beach had yummy fish tacos, coconut shrimp and cocktails on the rooftop terrace at The Beached Whale Sunday Cycled around the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel…

baseball

We went out to a baseball game last night, to see the Fort Myers Miracles play the Marauders – I’m not sure where they were from. In between trying to confuse us (“yeah, that’s called a touchdown”), two of Rasmus’ colleagues educated us on the rules of the game. We got it in the end,…

new sunglasses

It took us over a week before we got a photo of us togetherĀ in Florida. A cool tree (which you can’t really see anyway) and new sunglasses finally prompted this one. You like?

becoming a golf pro

Ok, so not quite. But I had my first lesson today! We live on a golf course (read: retirement colony) so of course I had to learn. Rasmus already knows how to play but it’s been a few years. So we went to a driving range after work today and each had half an hour…