So much rain…..

I had to get up at 3am on Tuesday morning to catch an early morning flight. I flew to Jacksonville via Chicago and only had a short stop-over there for a change! When I arrived in Jacksonville, I discovered I didn’t have my sister’s mobile phone number and I wasn’t sure where to meet her! I waited outside the terminal and Karen found me. It was absolutely pouring with rain, which is quite unusual for this time of year. Karen, Ilan (my brother-in-law), Allysa (my niece) and I had a chilled out evening in front of the television.

It was still pouring down with rain on Wednesday morning. Jason, a fellow volunteer at the White Shark Projects, was staying at a friend’s place about 40 mins drive from Jacksonville and we had organized to meet up here. He was going to cycle to Karen’s house but the weather was pretty bad so we went to pick him up. We spent the afternoon catching up and watched a couple DVD’s in the evening with a Chinese take-away for dinner.

It was still pouring with rain on Thursday :-( In the afternoon, Jas and I headed to the local cinema and, after lunch at the Steak ‘n’ Shake, we watched ‘Terminator Salvation’ which was really good! Later that evening, Karen and Ilan fired up the hot tub they have in their garden and we all chilled out in it :-)

Guess what? It was pouring down with rain on Friday morning!! We took Jas back to his friend’s house in the morning and then Karen and I went for a massage :-) We all went out to the cinema in the evening – though I went to see Star Trek (FANTASTIC!) and Karen, Ilan and Allysa went to see ‘Night at the Museum 2’. We all enjoyed our respective films!

Today, the weather has alternated between pouring rain and brilliant sunshine! Karen and I spent a few hours shopping and tonight, I am taking Karen and Ilan out for dinner – if we can ever decide what restaurant to go to………….