riu palace here we come!

I am ready for my vacation. It won't be too much longer now and I'll be sitting right there in the sun. Right now it is 75 degrees there! Argh! I was really meant to be in a warm place and although I know that spring is coming and it will be warm soon... (nice run-on sentence)... I can't help but whine a little while it's still a little bit chilly out. I know all you northern people laugh at the southern whining. One flake of snow falls and we all stay at home. One warning word of snow, and we're all slammed into a Krogers grocery buying up every bit of food staple we can find. Who knows, a blizzard could come? Or worse, ice... then there's no driving.

I remember just a little over a year ago, metro schools let the kids out early because of the ice and snow that was falling all morning. I commuted 35 miles to work, at the time, but it was all interstate. I left work at noon with some iv medications for a patient of ours and arrived at his house (just down the road from my boyfriend's house) at 6:30pm. It took THAT long to get home. Eighteen wheelers were sliding backwards, cars were abandoned on the interstate, and people were running out of gas. It was a riot. I was SO bored. But, I made it. I had a front wheel drive, then. I couldn't make it now with my car. She's a beauty isn't she? But, she doesn't do well on snow of any kind. The last little bit of pseudo-snow that we had, I had to literally drive around 5 mph. It was fun watching the Cadillac Escalades and such whiz past me. Oh yeah, it's their glory day now... I whiz past them in the summer with my top down, summery breeze whipping through my hair and look at them. They look at me in their big chunky Escalades, smile, but I KNOW they'd rather have the convertible... oh but how the tables have turned!

I wish there was a way to get my car down to Cancun next month....