This Christmas season has been the strangest ever for me.  I am not a Florida-type guy, but a friend was getting married, so here I am just south of Orlando.  It’s 85 degrees today and I just finished a little swim.  I have a very slight tan going.  Some observations…

…Chris Matthews said it best the other day while discussing the Bhutto assassination on Hardball.  He mentioned that “When it is winter, we don’t remember summer.  And when it’s summer, we don’t remember winter.”  That’s what it felt like walking off the plane very early on Christmas morning.  It took my body a few days to realize that the heat is real.

…Florida might have it on Michigan in terms of warm weather, but I don’t see that the quality of life is any better down here than up there.  The towns seem just about as nice as those in Michigan.  The traffic is pretty awful, but, then again, it’s the Christmas season.

…Unless you want to hang out in an amusement park, don’t come to Orlando.  We’ve been driving around for the better part of a week and it baffles me what real people around here do to amuse themselves.  It’s kind of a wasteland.

…We rented a condo for the week and that was THE BEST way to go around here.  The pool is pretty much empty and the condo has a full kitchen.  We’ve cooked a bunch of meals so we don’t have to go out.  And the washer/dryer meant that we didn’t have to pack more than a couple of shirts and shorts for the trip.  And it’s really comparable in price to a hotel.  I think that we are paying about $65 per night for a really nice, fully furnished unit.

…I did see Rudy Giuliani at the Orange County Courthouse.  That was a trip highlight.  I’ll post about it when I get back to Michigan.  He’s an interesting guy with a firm handshake:)

More later.

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