Sure glad May is over

For some reason or the other, we're both happy May is over. It was a wonderful month of birthdays for both friends, family and Hasan. We had a nice but too short visit from my youngest cousin Akhila. It was a wonderful month where we took our first real "get on an airplane and go somewhere on vacation together" trip. But it was also a month of finals for Hasan, which he aced but is still nothing one would like to go through again, and a car accident for me. I'm ok - but I got a good banging around to my neck, back and hips. I was worried initially it would reactivate all my injuries from the accident in 2004, but so far so good I think. Just a huge hassle of doctor's and therapy appointments to keep when life is already so busy. Have to take it all with a grain of salt though - it could have been a lot worse.

I had grand visions of writing about our trip - we left for Miami on a Thursday morning and got to spend the afternoon by the pool with Rob, Fabiana and their son Robert and dinner with good friends Nick and Karen. We stayed there overnight and then left for our cruise aboard the Norwegian Sky on Friday afternoon. Docked in Nassau, Bahamas on Saturday morning and spent the day exploring Nassau - including a 2.5 mile walk in 85 degree heat to find an off-the-beaten path beach and restaurant that ended up being closed (ugh!). We left for Great Stirrup Cay island on Saturday evening and docked there on Sunday morning. (That's the cruiseline's private island.) Spent a lovely day on the beach on Sunday and then left for Miami that evening, docking Monday morning. We even got to spend the rest of Monday in Miami. It was an absolutely wonderful time - something we really needed and enjoyed. Lots of really good parts - but seeing my nephew Robbie might have taken the cake...he is SO cute.

But anyways, like I was saying - I had grand visions of writing some good stories from the trip, but my patience for sitting upright at a computer is low these days. So just look at the pictures, I say. I warn you...there are a lot (I also have no patience for sifting through these pictures.)

Here are some additional pictures from the month - Hasan was sort of missing me this month I think...he took a lot of pics of me. It was a bit prescient I suppose - the pics of me in the red shirt are from the morning before I got in the car accident...kind of eerie.

Today, I'm off to Milwaukee for the weekend to visit my aunt and uncle at my cousin's house. They are visiting from India and I haven't seen them for years...and Hasan gets the house to himself for a few days. Uh-oh...