The week that seemed like six weeks. In a good way. There’s a lot of pictures so I’m going to keep the text to a minimum.

If I can.

Succinct posts not my forte.

MONDAY

Still in Florida. Katie had work, I had homework, so we just stayed home and did our thing. Together. Which is what I like most.

While I was resting in my room in the afternoon they surprised me by ordering Korean delivery and it was SO GOOD.

TUESDAY

Visited a sunken tropical garden. It was nice. But HOT. The theme of the week.

Guess who almost dropped their sunglasses in the flamingo pit??

We couldn’t figure out what was making this light-flower but isn’t it neat?

Came home and rested. With puppies. (#oxymoron).

Went to the beach for dinner and sunset.

Drove home in a thunderstorm with the sunroof and windows open, my arm getting pelted with rain outside the window. It was lovely.

Air. I do love air.

WEDNESDAY

Mostly just prepared to come back home.

Tried to do my Korean class at the airport on my phone. Ha. I missed a LOT. But I didn’t want to miss it ALL.

OH. I don’t understand how people watch movies on their laptops on airplanes. I downloaded episodes of the Netflix show I was watching….but then Delta had no internet access so I couldn’t log into Netflix to access the downloads…so what’s the point of downloading?? Flying down on JetBlue we had internet and I got to watch my shows the whole way down, which was really nice. The man next to me seemed to enjoy it, too.

THURSDAY

I want a sweatshirt this color…but I don’t want an embroidered “Lee” logo on it. So my brain went, “you could just photoshop it out.”  I need to get away from the computer more.               

I got home SO LATE last night. The driver couldn’t find me. I couldn’t find the driver. It took almost an hour of me waiting out in the humid night for us to realize he was at the wrong terminal. I got home right before 2am.

I did NOTHING. It was glorious.

FRIDAY

Did blog stuff and Korean homework and practice (it’s a LOT). I may go back to just three posts a week for the duration of the class. It’s getting hard to fit everything in and be giving it all my best effort.

Went to dinner in town with a friend. Was nice to see people out and about.

SATURDAY

Yes, I wore this polka dot shirt on purpose.

Went to NY Botanical Garden with a friend to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit. We’d seen another exhibit of hers back in 2018 and never forgot the silver balls. Such a simple concept but somehow so pleasing.

Irises always make me think of our dear friend Iris.

The gift shop had a REALLY good book section. This table, especially, was calling my name. ZEN CAMERA? Are you KIDDING me??

Then to lunch on Arthur Avenue, which is the main street of Little Italy in the Bronx. It was GOOD.

My friend brought me the cat ears.

We did a LOT of walking. Four miles. That’s a LOT for me. My hips were just DONE after we ate. And the car was parked up a hill. It was a struggle, but I lived to tell the tale.

I gave myself the evening off and read my book out on the patio til dark then came in and caught up on I Promised You the Moon. It’s sad. The first season, I Told Sunset About You, was heartbreaking with longing…but you were watching them come together…and now in this season I feel like we’re watching them come apart. And it’s just sad. Only two episodes left.

SUNDAY

I may or may not have gotten up at 5am to watch the live stream of BTS’ 8th Anniversary concert celebration. I’m sure my landlords were like WE’RE STARTING WITH THIS NOW??? Ha.

In the middle of the concert they noticed a BUG on the stage and they all stopped to say Hey Lil Fella. I just can’t with them.

I spent most of the rest of the day doing homework and making more flash cards. I live for flash cards. I’m actually pretty pleased that I’m learning as much as I am relatively easily. I actually understood a (brief) sentence in a k-drama the other night during a subtitle-less moment. I was so excited! Old dogs, baby!

Back to work tomorrow for me. It was a nice vacation. Eight weeks-ish til the next one.

Hope everyone is doing well!