Flat Stanley goes to Miami

So for the past few weeks I have been hosting Flat Stanley. I am doing this on behalf of Brendan Minick, the son of my friend Vanessa (a old friend from Hillsborough High School). I am supposed to take him on adventures and document it with pictures. At the end of January I will return Flat Stanley to Brendan who will present it to his class. I also created a web link so he can track everywhere Flat Stanley is traveling too... http://my.flightmemory.com/flatstan

Flat Stanley got to go to Miami this weekend. It's a sweet trip. One leg down, a long layover, and one leg home. Doesn't get easier than that. A lot of my friends were on the trip, some I had not seen in a while, so it was fun to catch up. We all arranged to bring food and drink, so when we got to the hotel we went down to the pool for a little cocktail hour.

Sunday I went to a new Sushi restaurant that opened up next to the hotel. I was supposed to meet up with a friend from UNF who lives there now, but it fell thru, so I had to day to relax and do my own thing. On the flight home we set up the back galley with our snacks and continued eating. Eat eat eat.... it's all we do.

This is my last post for 2007 s0 Happy New Year!

Cast-Away

I thought this would be an appropriate title for this entry. Earlier this week I met a little girl on my plane named Peyton. She was returning from a family vacation in the Bahamas. I noticed she had a cast on, the old fashioned kind that you could actually sign. I asked if I could sign her cast, but we needed a marker. I made a page over the PA system and luckily a passenger had a Sharpie, and I was able to sign my name in the last spot that still had wasn't signed.

She gets it off on Thursday though, but at least my name will be on it for a couple of days.

Friend's @ 50

Spent Friday afternoon helping my friend Patti (seen here holding a box of condoms)celebrate her 50th birthday. There were about 20-30 people from the 777 mafia there, some of whom I had not seen in a while. Mind you most of these women are old enough to be my mother, but they have taken me under their protective wing at work, and I am fortunate to have friends like them.

Spent the afternoon drinking wine, some sort of champagne punch with cranberries, and eating good food.

Food is always a major part of everything I do it seems. Perhaps that is why I am shaped like a pear.