Fort Lauderdale again...

[fajrdrako]

We are on land. Ordinary, plain, firm land. I miss the ship already.

maaseru and I, and redmtl and her mother, are now at our hotel in Fort Lauderdale, and will be here for a few days. We disembarked this morning, a process which (inevitably) involves a lot of hurrying up and waiting, even with wheelchairs in tow. (Or maybe: especially with wheelchairs in tow.) Then we did errands: getting the rental van, going to the bank, the post office, the drugstore, and the grocery store. We had lunch at Denny's, which has changed its menu - not for the better, as some of our favourite items are now missing from it. For dessert, I had apple pie with maple crust - what a concept! - and ice cream.

Along with Lil and her mother, we met redmtl's friends Margaret and May for dinner at Waxy's Irish Pub - I had corned beef and cabbage,
maaseru had potato skins. Afterwards, we went back to redmtl's hotel room for tea and cookies, and chatted about any number of things while redmtl looked at her gorgeous photos of the cruise on her laptop. It reminded me of happy days at conventions - like, for example, the Dunnett convention in 1990, one of the best ever - where after the day's events we would go back to someone's room and talk for ages. Good times.

But now I'm too tired to articulate.