Florida

After an 11 hour car trip I have finally arrived in Florida. It is hot and humid, but fortunately there is often air-conditioning to combat the heat. Unfortunately, some buildings rather overcompensate.... Ah well. Such are the dangers of being in America. Yesterday I worked to set up my uncle Fred's internet connection, and due to a mysterious problem with the password, was forced to call tech support. Very embarrassing. The person at tech support was fairly competent, though she went through the individual steps in mind-bogglingly precise detail, which drove me nuts. Oh well, at least it worked afterwards.
My nine year-old cousin came to visit yesterday. She has now grown out of the stage where she feels comfortable jumping on me and doing other similar actions, and instead acted quite "civilized." I was rather bored when she came over, and I found it amusing to treat her to several discourses, on various random subjects, and she eventually labeled me "weird." Ah well, such is life. I rather suspect that most, if not all, of the readers of this blog have termed me weird at one point or another. Another interesting thing that happened yesterday was a trip to the library. After spending about an hour looking through, we finally picked about thirty, and then proceeded to try to check them out. No go. Apparently, my mom's library card had expired. Since they needed some proof that we actually lived in Florida, we were forced to return home. My mom then attempted to borrow my uncle Fred's library card, but his had been suspended. So eventually we just went back to the library, and tried quite hard to get the card renewed, and in the end the librarian took pity on us and gave us a one-month renewal. Very useful, because we intend to be gone well before the month is up. So we went home happy.
Today, I was forced to get up very early to go to church. We had to leave by 7:15. So of course my mom wakes me up at 6:30. Very annoying, as I had hoped to sleep until at least 6:50. I can never quite figure out why she imagines it takes us as long to get ready to go as long as it takes her. So anyway, I get up, eat breakfast, change, and read my book for about 20 minutes until we finally leave, and then I get another hour and a half to read my book as we head to church. When we get there, Justin and I decide to skip the first service and Sunday school, so I get another 2.5 hours to read my book. Though the service wasn't too bad, I can't really say it was worth the wait. Oh well. After the service, we got lunch at a fairly nice restaurant, and then headed home. My dad had planned to drag us to the evening service, but thankfully there was enough time between lunch and it that he managed to drop Justin and I off. Very fortunate, as the idea of staying out till 9 didn't really appeal to me. A very packed two days.