a fast pictorial entry from paradise

Fast because, as usual, I’m up waaaaaay too late. We need to get a fairly early start tomorrow so we can go walk around Magnolia Cemetery before it gets too hot. Well, it’s never too hot for me, but early is better there. Since I’ve sprung for internet access, though, I want to get my money’s worth. And really, I already have, because I’ve got my pictures loaded on Flickr. That alone is worth it.

And it’s going to be mostly pictorial because I’m delirious with exhaustion so won’t make any sense if I try to use words. Even better, I can’t see a darned thing – I broke the earpiece on my glasses the day before we left, which meant I didn’t have time to get them fixed. And being bifocals, when they don’t sit perfectly straight on my nose it makes my vision amazingly wonky. And of course they aren’t at all straight, because I have the earpiece taped on with black electrical tape. Quite the fashion statement. I guess I should have just left my contacts in.

SO – the trip is great, we’re having lots of fun, no rain so far, and I’ve avoided all deep pools of water. There are quite a few of those at high tide, weirdly. Car is fine, and my previously mentioned bashed-by-a-book ankle is fine too. It was fine by the next day, although I had a great big bruise.

And night pictures! This may be blurry – seriously, I can not tell.

And we saw fireworks tonight – although we missed the really good ones because they didn’t start till 10 and we got tired of sitting around waiting on them. We were at the park on the bay with a million other people, and you could see all kinds of fireworks farther off. So that was okay. We left and walked around town, so of course started hearing them and seeing the sky light up as soon as we were out of sight of the actual fireworks.