All Disneyed out!

Happy Easter everyone!

Hope you're having a grand a time as we are here in Florida; we've never had an Easter Sunday with quite so much chocolate as this one, that's for sure! Not only did the Easter Bunny go shopping in the UK to bring us chocolate eggs, he went in the US too! Easter eggs here are way different from home; in fact they're not chocolate...they come in the form of plastic or metal eggs filled with sweeties (or should I say candy?). We're reliably informed that the large type of chocolate eggs we get back back home just don't exist here - who says the US has the biggest and best of everything!

As I write Kim's planning a trip to Toys-R-Us for this afternoon and a cinema trip for later on. He's got shopping fever, but he's going to have to move over and give me a turn! We're off to some fancy home furnishing shops this afternoon too and I can see myself needing a container ship to go home in!! We've had a couple of days away from Ormond Beach and today is meant to be a 'wind-down'!

Inevitably we've been to Disney (Animal Kingdom), but we managed to ensure it was just for a day - Kim was surprisingly very understanding! It was a truly cosmopolitan experience: as well as the dulcet tones of many an American, there were distinguishable Yorkshire and Scots voices, plenty of Japanese, French and Germans, and a gaggle of other European voices I couldn't understand. And in all this mix were the animals: elephants from Africa, birds from South America, monkeys, ant-eaters, gorillas, lions, giraffes, crocodiles, ostriches... where else could all these things come together in one place? Amazing. And totally surreal.

We spent yesterday at Kennedy Space Center: from the surreal to the sublime. This was an awe inspiring experience. The scale of the rockets (Saturn V is probably taller than the tower block I grew up in), the scale of human endevour to make it happen...it makes you feel tiny - and quite frankly a bit pointless!!!!! You come away feeling that absolutely anything is possible, and wondering what on earth you've been doing with your life so far! I picked up a postcard on my way out with one of NASA's famous mottos on: FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. I plan to put that up on my studio wall.

Well, I think it's time for that shopping trip I mentioned so I'll sign off for now and will catch up later - byeee!