On Friday afternoon, I’ll be making the above journey. But don’t fret, it’s nothing personal, Northeast. Nor is it anything permanent (I’ll be back in Boston late Sunday afternoon). I have never been the “weekend getaway” type–I didn’t grow up that way, no one in my family does it… well, at least not to exciting, exotic places. Often I’ll trade one side of Massachusetts for the other for a weekend, but that’s hardly exotic. But I guess there’s a time for change in every person’s life: this weekend when I jet away to Naples, Florida, I will be kissing goodbye chilling scenes like this for scenes like this:
and this:
Why, YES! That IS a 100-foot water slide!
No, bitter readers of the North, I can’t afford to stay at a luxury resort in Florida all by myself… Truth is, my sister is at a conference at that hotel for the whole week, and she and my mother and I will all be snuggling up in her King bed for a couple of nights. Either that or I’m stuck on the chaise lounge. I can live with that, for at least two reasons:
1) Air temperature for Naples: mid-80s
2) Ocean temperature: 76.1
Thank goodness for change, because I’m ready to slather on the sunscreen and take on that water slide (and slather again after prolonged swimming and/or vigorous towel-drying).
-Emily S.
