It's a hard life living in Florida...

Well, we had a very fun and hectic weekend between stints of tedious tidying up necessary for getting the apartment ready to sell...

Saturday we went to visit Lucy's beau Valentin, his sister Josephine and mom Erika (Father Emanuel was away in France for work/family visit). The weather was superb so we spent much of the time playing in the yard, in and out of the pool and eating Brazilian snacks. Some photos below. Later we went to dinner on the Miracle Mile in Coral Gables and Lucy got to stay up WAY past her bedtime and ended up hitting the pillow around 9pm!

Lucy pretending to "go to the bathroom"



Lucy carefully considering a Marriage Proposal by Valentin


Valentin didn't take too kindly to the rejection


Sunday morning we were up bright and early for a day of boating on the bay with Charlotte's former boss and some colleagues. We spent most of the morning zipping around taking turns to water ski and i managed to learn how to mono-ski for the first time - naturally I was up and doing turns on the second attempt ;) We then moored the boat close to a sandbar and hung out for the afternoon relaxing in the sunshine, eating etc.. Was a lot of fun and we call caught our fair share of rosey-skin before returning back to dry land on Key Biscayne about 5pm. Our final social commitment was then a quick BBQ at our neighbours Lyndsey and Jason. They had a few other friends visiting and we went round for some hot dogs and the like before returning to more cleaning up and bed for Bob. A very fun but exhausting weekend was had by all.

Today (Monday) I am feeling stiff as a board and sore from head to toe from the waterskiing!