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| Almost home, Thank God, while making a stop to buy some food, I had the kids blowing bubbles,anything to change the scenery and get them outside for a bit, baby was taking a long morning nap, and took forever to fall asleep tonight |
Pick your battles they say, what if the battles are 24/7 and
you are sweating non stop? LOL, yes sometimes on the road the diesel is running
low and the generator turns off, and outside and inside it is 93 degrees – Woo
Hoo – Good Times. Last year I remember
the air not being too great on the inside too, and just feeling uncomfortable,
thanks for the reminder this year. I
swear, now that I know I am going home, I cannot wait to get there, and
everything is just annoying, every little detail. My husband is really pushing and driving long
hours, Thank God he is a professional, but man, we are in Texas, and you know
what they say, the sun rises, sets, and then rises again and you are still not
out of that Lone Star State.
Yesterday was actually an improvement, my kids got along for
the most part, even played very nicely together, I had to referee a few times,
but at the end everyone cooperated, took showers, and went quietly to
sleep. My poor baby has a sniffle,
probably from all the sweating, air conditioning, and not enough fresh
air. My bed is going to feel soooooooooo
good.
I am having tons of flashbacks, memories, and feelings like
I have been exactly in a place before. I
have been to Miami a handful of times since I left almost 13 years ago, but
never like this where we stayed for almost a week and literally drove all
around my old hood and places I worked.
Near my house in Kendall there was an Italian restaurant that everyone
in our neighborhood worked at some point in time. It now bares a different name, but I remember
how much I hated being a bus girl. The
hostess got to look all pretty, and I had to clean everyones mess, which is
really the worst thing I could ever do for my personality. We were forced to clean in our childhood and
I swore that I would always have someone else do it, and God sent me an OCD
cleanaholic – Thank You. Anyway I got
that job because I had an opportunity to do a semester of high school in
Israel. I was 16, never travelled by
myself anywhere at that point, but for Jewish people Israel is always a yes,
and my father was all for it if I helped pay for it. So I did, and it was one of the most amazing
experiences of my life, met so many amazing people, so cool to be on my own, it
was the first time I got out of hand drunk and my parents were told :) I am not even much of a drinker, I love my
natural high, but when in Rome...Where we
were for the fourth of July at the Biltmore Hotel, I worked in reservations
there, one of my first jobs out of Florida International University, School of
Hospitality Management. I worked in
Downtown Miami as an operator for the deaf, they would call in and type, and I
would speak to a hearing person, and vice versa, I think from there I now type
90 words a minute, and miss a keyboard on my iPhone.
I also worked on Norwegian Cruise Line at the Port of Miami,
and on board ships for three years. My
first ship the S/S Norway was a transatlantic liner, my first run was all over
the Caribbean, and every Saturday I would drive my car that I parked at the
port for a week home, I would speed like crazy not to miss the ship, it was
close a few times.
On the way down drove by Ft. Lauderdale, where I would drive
45 minutes to party all night long. The
only place we didn’t go was South Beach, it’s just not a place for kids, and
its way different than when I was growing up, all fancy now.
Thanks for
letting me enjoy memory lane,
Hasta La
Vista Baby,
Coach Yulia
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