…is to see pictures of me! Right? Okay! Remember that kljhdofih lhfougwed I got Carl for Christmas? It was a digital camera. See my smartness here, folks? I got him a camera and now he’s going to use it to take pictures of me. All part of the plan. Go ahead and click on the thumbnails, should you feel the need to see even greater detail.
Here we have Carl and Chiara in a typical pose. Note my thumbs-up by which I indicate I am very happy that Carl has joined me down in Miami after a week apart. Also…well, it’s not like I can hide them…note my mutant boobage over here. Sigh.
Here are all the lovely Key Girls and their lovely Key Girl husbands and boyfriend. Gosh, doesn’t everyone look nice? Everyone’s smiling and happy, all out on the boat together in Biscayne Bay. Nice looking bunch of friends I have, yes? Except who’s that girl in the orange shirt with her hair all up in her face? Welcome to me, ragazzi. Does this begin to explain a couple of things?
While we’re on the boat, please direct your attention to the water and the sky. That line in the middle is where I grew up.
Enough with the boat. Let’s go to the garden. Specifically, this is the entrance to my childhood home. Can you see the gate? Barely? It’s like walking into the Secret Garden, and it’s quite enchanting. Inside is even better.
Here are some of the beautiful things you can find there, including the two lovely ladies on my left in the last picture, who happen to be, respectively, my sister and my mom. It’s also probably one of the best pictures of our knees that has ever been taken.
This is where I spent part of New Year’s Day. This is a picture of five iguanas. Five. Plus some trees. Can you see them? Five, I promise you. Carl and I had the best, and I mean the best time sitting on the bank of this little stream in this little park right by my house, going “Another one! An orange one!” Let me recommend to anyone who may be reading this and wondering what kind of criteria to apply to their partner selection process: you definitely want to be with someone who will spend the first day of the new year taking pictures of giant lizards with you. Trust me.
Doesn’t this bike look like it should totally have silver and red streamers on the handlebars? The look on my face pretty much sums up the entire vacation. Wooooooo!