This morning I swam in an outdoor pool while the sun shone. It was before breakfast, which possibly explained why I was the only one enjoying the water. Or perhaps it was because the actual air temperature was just in the sixties.
Oh, yeah! Maybe it was because we are staying at a Holiday Inn in Fort Lauderdale and the “free” (as long as you pay for the room) breakfast buffet was being ravaged by hungry hotel guests. They had until 10 AM to chow down, so perhaps the pool will be busier after that.
No matter. We had come from the frozen North yesterday, and sixty degrees felt like a heatwave. It reminded me what it’s like to walk outside without winter regalia, to arrive at your vehicle with dry feet, to forego the defrost setting on your car’s heating system and to discard snow brushes.
Tomorrow Earl and I leave for the Caribbean where it will be even warmer. I plan to take advantage of this and swim as often as possible, because winter will still be lurking about back home at the end of the trip. I will probably have more competition for space in the pools than I did this morning.
But then again, there’s a twenty-four hour buffet on board, so I could be just fine.
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