The Sunday Salon: An Impromptu Long Break

Hello? Anyone there? I'm still here.

Boy, it's been about three weeks since I posted anything. Last I hollered over here, it was to announce a trip we were making to Miami and Orlando, to check some beaches out and to drink Butterbeer. Something came up during the trip that took away my interest in books and reading but I think it's all finally returning back.

Poor little thing - it must be tired of
its boring job of posing in photos.

The Florida trip was quite fun. The husband's brother just got a job in Miami but when we went there, he was just being interviewed. We spent a couple of days going around Miami - love the beach over there. We went one morning to the Gator Park to check out some gators and take a bragging rights photo holding an alligator (their skin feels creepy! all leathery and scaly).

The Universal Studios was even more fun. Some of the rides were downright madness - we did the Hulk roller coaster ride at least two times. It's been a long time since I sat in a real loopy winding crazy roller coaster and so this was a lot of fun. The Harry Potter section in the park - which is the main reason we went there - was really very well put together. I loved how we could walk into Honeydukes and get Chocolate frogs, Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, Peppermint Toads, Fudge Flies, and many many more. It was hard choosing what to get but I eventually picked the Chocolate Frog and got the Helga Hufflepuff card. (Harry Potter readers will get the reference.) Can you guess how very much like an excited schoolgirl I was inside there? The poor darling husband indulged my fancies as well. The main Harry Potter ride wasn't that big a deal for the amount of hype this place gets but I still thought it was quite charming. You could actually pretend that you're sitting on a broom and having the ride of your non-Muggle life. Butterbeer, on the other hand, was just a soda drink mixed with a faint sweet tasty hint of something frothy on top. I thought the drink was consistent with the way it was described in the books, but there was still a part of me that wished it wasn't soda (which I don't drink).

Chocolate Frog

For the last two weeks, I haven't really read much. I did finish an audiobook (Tina Fey's Bossypants) and put down countless books after reading a page. I just picked up Appointment in Samarra two days back which is - not the best choice of books to read at this time since it moves really slow but is - interesting enough to make me want to read it.

I can't wait to get back to blogging and catching up with whatever I missed.