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Time for an update, I have been reading about everyone elses adventures and felt the need to contribute. I was lucky enough to fly down to Florida last weekend for a minibreak with my friend from work Emily. Her mum lives down there so we had a place to crash and a car to cruise around in. Its been seriously cold here up in the minus 20's so the thought of going to the beach was insane. We arrived in our ugg boots and winter coats to a glorious 25 degrees.

Highlights of the weekend;

- Busch gardens; its a theme park with animals, i love roller coasters never get tired of that fear/excitement/adrenaline feeling (a natural rush i guess hah) it was created by the guy who owns Budwiser so lots of beer tasting too.

- The beach; there are no real beaches in Toronto so I am having major withdrawls - longing to visit a beach, the coast line was beautiful, probably could of been a little hotter but we braved it in our bikini's and managed to get a tan (check out my westcoast chopper tan line lol) they have cabanas (kinda like a half tent) set up all along the beach to shelter from the wind, was glorious sunbathing in my own private little canopy and the cabana boys arent bad either...

- The nightlife; how to describe it? overfriendly? overbearing? just plain forward..what can you do but laugh, we went to a club called Whiskey Park in Tampa which was pretty cool, I really liked the layout, good tunes, usual hip hop vibes, super skank city though dang (I must be turning into an old prude)

- The liquor stores; bulk bargin alcohol, I have never seen anything like it, (like going to the warehouse) everything is giant size eg a 2 litre bottle of vodka for $10. WOW is all I can say about that...

- The Yanks; well they are so entertaining and loud. Oh and incase you didnt know patriotic, most houses have an american flag flying proudly. The people we met were OTT (check out the dog with its own sunglasses - only in America I tell ya)

- The mobile home aka the trailor park; we were staying in a little area of Florida called Dunedin full of oldies enjoying retirement. The houses are like NZ baches very cute little places, with nice gardens (old people always have nice gardens) with a big heated pool.

Anyhoo as much as I take the piss I had a great time in the states and definitely want to head back, NYC in the summer I reckon, who is in?? Also they have good shopping, picked up many a bargin, my fav being a cute red wallet and some dark skinny jeans for a mere $15.

Well thats the latest from my hood, here is a pick from Wednesday night (its $3 martini night so all the girls usually meet up to get trashed and gossip). We find out about our visas in about 3 weeks so fingers crossed we get another year here, Im definitely not ready to leave.

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