I have been reading quite a lot of the Lonely Planet Guide to Miami and the Keys because I am going there this week for a week! My cousin Brad and also my Uncle Tom and Aunt Barbara live in Southern Florida and Brad has been trying to get me to come visit for awhile now. I wonder if he was surprised when I finally accepted. I have already planned out a million things I want to do. Too many probably. But even though I wanted to go just to be warm and in the sun, there is so much to do there. I have never been to Miami, or the Keys, or the everglades (except when I was really young I think). I have already made reservations for a canoe trip in the 10,000 island area. And there is snorkeling (not in the everglades) in the Keys and in Biscayne National Park and great restaurants and clubs in Miami and great beaches everywhere. All winter I have been so sick, weak all the time and in pain and going to physical therapy to try to rebuild what some mysterious virus sucked out of me. I can hardly wait to be warm and lazy and adventurous, all things that have been lacking this winter. I also hope to finish more books. I have been going back and forth between three rather long and intense books and it would be nice to finish them up and move on to other things. So here's hoping lazy beach reading will take care of that.