0303/1414/2010, Marathon Florida
this weekend, on saturday and sunday, there was a festival at the city park. we all went to it, and one of our friends, Thomas, played his drums with his band, but we didnt get there early enough to hear him. im a little sunburned, and so is everyone else, i think. there was an incredible amount of people there, and it runs into today, too. there were blow-up slides and things like that, a giant rock climbing wall, and alot of venders with food and other things like jewelery and clothes. it was really fun, and its no wonder they have it every year, but there wasnt enough to keep me entertained all day. we drifted in and out of the festival and the rest of the park all day. we ate fries greasy enough to clog our arteries, and got smoothies. mine was good, but everyone elses was nasty. haha. well, i guess thats all.... i heard it was starting to warm up in south carolina? i hope so. i havent been watching weather, but i will today. did you all set your clocks forward an hour?
my parents bought me my first guitar on friday, a little baby blue one with a dragon and castle on it. i could have done without the castle, but i love it to death! Thomas, a boy here, said he'd teach me. i cant wait to start playing it and make it actually sound like i know what i'm doing with it. :D
love you and miss you,
annakah on Kama Hele
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0303/0707/2010, back home from Key West
after taking three buses, we got to downtown Key West. We wandered around and went to the southernmost point of the continental united states, and got a tourist-y picture. aspen bought a touristy T-shirt, and i bought a little hair clip sort of thing that is hard to describe. i bought three shells for our friends here, to make necklaces for the girls. we saw a lot of wild roosters running around on the streets. but the way i see it, if you aren't gay, 21, or willing to spend a ton of money to see historic things, there isnt much to do down there. on the way home, we had to take three MORE buses to get back to Marathon. ugh. i dont like buses. its like you cant stay in one place on them, because the bus lurches all over the place! youre trying to talk, and it comes out like, "hey, look at that lubberdocksnobbypompom!!!" or, you cant hear someone right next to you. well, maybe it doesnt quite sound like that. hmm. oh well.
love,
annakah on Kama Hele
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0202/2020/2010, Boot Key Harbor
haha, to all of you with snow, it is beautiful here! sunny, warm, all that. i guess i shouldnt gloat, or the cold will come back... ehh. too late. hahahahahaha! anyway, i just emailed our old friend Ryan, and he sent pictures of the snow. i'll add those and the ones my sister sent from Lexington, SC, to our blog picture site.
not much to say today... theres a nautical flea-market today and tomorrow somewhere that isnt here. not sure where. some other key. not much to do today, but what we usually do. nothing, but hang out with our friends. im adding pictures to our Flickr of them, too.
hope its warming where yall are!
i love and miss all of you sooo soo much.
Annakah on Kama Hele
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0202/1212/2010, back in safe old Boot Key.... whew..
Just a quick note for tonight; a storm hit us, and we are more thankful than ever to be back home in our harbor. We just heard that we've got winds of 35 Knots, and we've got rain, as well. "Into each life a little rain must fall," I suppose. The marina boys from Hidden Cove are in Daytona tonight, on anchor, and I hope they do okay. I hope they have Dramamine, at least. I feel bad for them already.
My uncle just said that 49 of the states have had measurable snowfall for the first time in recorded history. My guess is that Hawaii is the one that hasn't had it. I know what it is, its that crazy global-warming thing that's happening now: its making snow fall! Hmm... I don't know about that, Al Gore....
So, were doing okay here. Not much else to tell ya'll. Oh, aspen wants you all to wear pink (red, white, purple, whatever) on Valentines Day. She's been trying to get the kids we hang out with to do the same. I think she may have actually gotten one of the boys to agree..... Hmm. At least the girls will. I promised her I would. K yayyy. I bet she goes farther than that, and is decked out in every heart-shaped thing she can find.
Happy Valentines Day, all of you.
Love,
Annakah on Kama Hele
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0202/1111/2010, BOOT KEY HARBOR!
WE BRAVED THE TRECHEROUS WATERS OF THE OCEAN AND SURVIVED! Well, no, not really. We did survive, and we did brave the waters of the ocean, but they were hardly treacherous anymore. But anyway, good news is, we made it home! The waters calmed, so we left a day early. Instead of Friday morning, we left at around 2:30 today (Thursday), and nobody got seasick. I was sick last night, around the time I went to sleep, but I took a Dramamine, which worked within the half hour, and I was asleep about an hour later. Not a problem with me. J Nobody else had gotten seasick, thankfully. So, were back in the harbor, and happy to be home. The difference between here and there is incredible.
OH! My dad saw a spotted sea ray jump out of the water then dive back in! I wish I would have seen it. We all watched for it to jump again, but of course it wouldn't. oh well. We'll see some eventually. We didn't snorkel, obviously, because it had been windy and wave-y since we got there. I did see some kids learning to snorkel at the beach when we were there.
This picture is actually from here, as well, and from tonight as well. A beautiful sunset to welcome us. I just took a picture that was like a thousand times better, but of course, the SD card wasn't in the camera because I'd just taken it out to put this picture on the camera! Dang, long sentence... anyway, as soon as I have a genius moment and decide how to get that picture on here, I'll add it.
Buenas Noches, todo de tu.
(disjointed Spanish for "good night, all of you." eh. i tried.)
Amor,
Annakah on Kama Hele
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0202/1010/2010, Bahia Honda
Waiting for the weather to calm here so we can return to Boot Key Harbor again... it isn't any nicer. I'm having a hard time typing because my fingers keep sliding off the laptop! The wind and the waves have actually gotten worse, and were getting prepared to leave as soon as possible on Friday morning. Here's the plan: on Thursday night, when the water is beginning to calm a bit, were going to raise the dinghy out of the water, charge the batteries almost all the way, clean up a bit, and pray that we can leave in the morning. If all goes well, we should be on the road (heh... on the water, I guess.) by sunrise on Friday morning. Sounds pretty bad to all of you, I guess, but we got used to waking up around that time on the trip down the coast to Florida. Some sailboat (couldn't read the vessel name, we tried.) anchored with us last night, and they decided to leave this morning. The three men aboard weren't tethered to their boat, and they didn't even have lifejackets on! They didn't seem too bright to me, but they left anyway. I hope they made it safely to wherever they were headed.
My mom was seasick this morning, and I was last night (in the middle of the night.). She still has a headache left over from it. Today is kind of a boring day, but its beautiful outside. Sunny, warm-ish, and the water is a clear-green color. We cant go to shore, though, because the water is too rough. I wouldn't even want to get in the dinghy.
Yesterday was Aspen's best friend Mia's birthday, so I wanted to tell her that everyone here wishes her a happy birthday. Too bad you cant have a birthday party here in the Keys, huh, Mia? We love you and miss you, girl.
With love,
Annakah on Kama Hele.
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