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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! from Kristian.

Key West has a massive festival called “Fantasy Fest” that finishes up this weekend, and I’m going to it today, Saturday and maybe a bit of Sunday. Now, my last time in Key West was pretty interesting so I’m a bit apprehensive about this one. The only place I could find accomodation was at a Bed and Breakfast place (that doesn’t serve breakfast) located on Marathon Key, about 45 mins drive away from Key West. The guy who owns it is a Vietnam veteran and he was a fighter pilot who flew over 200 missions, so it should be interesting hearing what he has to say for himself. He’s also a massive environmental activist who has had no small part in preventing a lot of Key Largo from being developed and subsequently destroyed. His name is “Captain EcoEd” but for some reason I keep on shortening that to “Captain Co-ed”. Uhhh, yeah. ...

Was pretty darn full-on. Like I said, I went to Swap Shop on the Friday night. I wouldn’t say that the place was Florida’s 2nd largest tourist attraction because of the drive in theatre part though. They’re crap. We were watching “Team America” on some shoddy screen with a shoddy projector and shoddy sound. Oh hold on, people don’t go to a drive-in to watch the movie anyway. Anyone who has watched “Grease” would know that. Doh! Ok, next time I go to a drive-in theatre you won’t be hearing about it. Mwa haha. Unfortunately this time I was there with fellow nerds. You can find the best bits of “Team America” on the ads, I swear. I did laugh a couple of times but only at the fact the movie has freaking marionettes walking about, I didn’t laugh at any of the actual dialogue much. Hearing South Park voices everywhere is sorta off-putting since I’m pretty much over South Park. ...

During the time Florida was getting bombarded with hurricanes, there was one guy we all watched to give us the low down on what the hurricanes’ plans were: Bill Kamal. Bill was the man! We watched him for hours on end coz basically that’s all that was on TV at the time. He always wore a pin-stripe suit and was so precise in what he said I was thinking “now there is a guy who knows his hurricanes!” He was a fountain of hurricane knowledge. ...

(I’ve got the theme song to that ABC show from yonks back in my head now). No, that’s where I’ve planned to go tonight, the world’s largest drive-in complex to watch Team America. Of course, I’ll be visiting Hooters in Fort Lauderdale first coz a man’s gotta eat. I have to get a sorta early night tonight (anything before 1am) because I’m leaving at 5:30am tomorrow morning to go on a full day kayaking trip in the Florida Keys. Woo hoo! I plan on going to an Apple store after work tonight to get an iTrip so I can annoy the heck out of the people I’ll be travelling with. What, you want more Roxette? No problemo! How about we follow that up with some 2 Unlimited and then to cap it off, the KLF. Hehe. ...

This post is for my little brother: CONGRATULATIONS for blitzing the technical test, the passing of which is one of the requirements for entrance into the Airforce. I knew you could do it! Good luck for the remaining tests that you will have to do. From a very proud brother.

to add this picture to the St Petersburg album. Oops.

To send my bankcard to the right address? Thankyou BankSA for sending my bankcard to my address back in Australia. This is after I called your hotline for people currently *overseas* who had their cards lost/stolen. I then explicitly gave details on where I was living in Florida so you could send it to *that* address. How the heck did you stuff that up, after I even had you repeat the address details to me? And where the heck would my PIN have gotten to? Somewhere in Mozambique perhaps? ...

Coz I drove nearly 800km today. The trip to St Petersburg was FANTASTIC. It’s amazing how each town has it’s own feel to it. The Salvador Dali museum of course was the highlight. I’ll definitely be making a trip back there when the new exhibits roll in. After checking out some art I went to St Pete Beach to get an awesome view of a sunset over the gulf of Mexico (whilst drinking a Corona, of course :) ...