Alas! It's still winter.

Wow, over 2 weeks since my last post. These are a week or so late, but better late than never. Now that I'm settled back into reality (i.e. freezing cold weather) and started a new job, these pics recap a time that seems so long ago, already. Well, it was wonderful while it lasted, and now I get to reminisce longlingly...join me.

We awoke at 4:30 am to begin our journey to southern FL on New Years Eve day.
The family was more put together than I would have expected for this time in the morning...must be the traveling excitement bug.

And we arrive...and the view from our balcony. Sigh.

 Oh, palm trees, palm trees, everywhere

 Oh the warmth, oh the sun, oh the hot tubs!

 One of the highlights of the week - watching the Packers-Bears game outside by the Tiki Bar - and even better, Packers won! (Well, not everyone present felt that way)

Killed some time in a salon while waiting to eat at an amazing seafood restaurant

A night out at the movies (saw Kings Speech and Voyage of the Dawn Treader, both great!)

And here are a few from the marina, where I walked with my baby sister to do a photo shoot (perhaps more to come on that). Gorgeous evening, warm sea breeze, pelicans and gulls flying about, sun setting...neither words nor photographs can capture...

There...now that I've given you that back-story, can you see why it's taken me over a week to rip myself from depression as, in 5 hours time, I traveled from this:

back into this: (and yes, that is a blizzard, and yes, you can barely make out the tail of the plane through the airport window)

Sigh. Welcome back to the Midwest.