And, four months later, here we are home again, with snow and cold to welcome us. It feels a little bit like when Dorothy wakes up at the end of the Wizard of Oz, and the world is in black and white again. Did it even really happen?
Waterworld was a pretty crap film, lost loads of money, and became the watchword for incompetent studio failure. So what better choice around which to build a giant show/special effects spectacular? Flaming oil slicks, crashing seaplanes, jet skis and boats. All very corny, but, as Susan pointed out, almost certainly better than the film.
We spent two nights in LA on our way back home to help with both the jet lag and the temperature shock. Accordingly, we did appropriately quintessential American things, watching the (terrible) Super Bowl while eating beer and guacamole, and then spending a day at Universal Studios. The theme park was pretty good fun, helped immeasurably by being very empty on a chilly February Monday.
View from our window: Santa Monica, California, USA. 10:00 am, 03 February 2014.
Fun times in the swimming pool with the new waterproof camera.
According to the instructions on the Cancer Council sunscreen bottle, each application of sunscreen on an adult should be about 35mL. And, of course, reapply after swimming, sweating, towelling, and extended sun exposure. So, that’s at least 3 applications per day for two adults = 210mL. So, we should be going through about a bottle of sunscreen per day on Aitutaki. We’re not quite up to that pace, but close…and we escaped without any serious sunburns.