what's up?

so, here we are (Sam and I) surviving in the heat and humidity of Ontario, staying with Steve's family... Things are fine out here, but I am eager to get to Havana.

Steve arrived there on Sunday after a 3.5 hour flight from Toronto (yahoo, no more 10 hour flights!), and has been at work for a couple of days now. I gather that things are a little interesting there now, as Castro has handed over power to his brother for the first time ever... I suspect that we will have a very interesting time in Havana.

Apparently, we have 2 kinds of bananas, oranges, mandarin oranges, mangos and avacados growing in our back yard! Yum! The pool looks lovely, and the house seems quite big, but inhabited by the typical foreign affairs furniture - some of it in fairly rough shape. Oh well - we can live by the pool.

There is a garden, and the gardener says he can grow anything, so I am off to buy seeds next week, for tropical sorts of things (are carrots tropical?). Oh, and we have a cat. Fox will be so pleased.