CP12 Part1

–edit– yeah, my site’s frelled again. FML. I’ll try fixing it this weekend –/edit–

I wrote most of this while I was still at training, which is why it sounds like I’m still there in parts, but I’m not, I’m home :(

I knew this trip was going to be fun, but I didn’t know it would be this much fun. I thought our class would be boring, but our instructor was awesome. We were laughing and laughing all week. He said we’re in his top five favorite classes of all time, and he’s had a lot :D We learned so much too, like really learned. We spliced cable and played with the different meters and things. I feel like if there was a strike, I would actually be useful. Someone else would have to climb the ladder, but I can take care of stuff on the ground ;)

Outside of class was just as fun. I should go on all my trips with Maryam and Julia. We pretty much spent every day shopping. The first day we got here we went shopping on Las Olas Boulevard, which is a bunch of boutiques. We had a great meal there too. I especially enjoyed my gelato, which I swear was just as good as the good stuff in Rome.

After class every day we headed to the Sawgrass Mills Mall. Huge. Like Palisades huge. We were in heaven. Until we lost Julia. She was missing for a good 20 minutes. We found her just as we were starting to panic. Then we got lost, but at least our cells were working at that point.

We ate there almost every night. We saw Beauty and the Beast on Thursday. We had the theater to ourselves so Julia and I sang through the entire movie.

We also visited Butterfly World and saw many pretty butterflies and birds. And “butterflies making baby butterflies” which got a gasp out of Maryam:

I did the driving this week. Maryam’s renting the car next time. Driving in FL is a lot easier than driving in NJ. It’s awesome, you don’t have to go around a jug handle to make left hand turns and there are signs telling you what the streets are. Amazing. There’s also about half the amount of cars on the road. This left turn system they got going on here I don’t think would work with the amount of traffic we have. Makes me want to move to FL.

The gym here really sucks. Most of the machines are broken, it’s been around 90 degrees in there every time I’ve gone, the lightest weight they have is 25 pounds and they don’t have any sort of exercise mats. I’ve only gone three times this week and have done a much shorter workout than usual. Just enough to keep me sane.

We had our performance reviews via phone this week. I’m glad Roy finally filled out feedback form himself. Best review I’ve had so far. I’m even eligible for some extra bonus thingy.

We had to get up at 3am for our flight home. Except Julia, who slept through her alarm, and us calling her and me knocking on her door. We eventually got her up and made it to the airport in time. A lady on the plane took my seat without asking. When I asked to see her ticket she said, “Oh, my son wants to sit with me.” OK lady, that’s nice, but can you tell me your original seat so I can sit somewhere? Of course there was someone in her original seat. I was standing around for a while until the flight attendant sorted things out. I was hoping they’d put me in first class, but no such luck. I slept most of the trip anyway.

Then we went to Cheryl’s party and I wore my fancy new shoes.