Where did the last 2 weeks go???!!!!

When I started this blog it was my intention to post weekly - if not daily updates. Ha!!!
So here's a really brief overview of the last 2 weeks...
We arrived at our villa in Florida to find things....shall we say "not quite right!"
We have basically spent the last 2 weeks in Home Depot buying stuff, taking it home, returning it and then buying more stuff to start the whole cycle again.
I managed to get one whole day of doing almost no DIY the day before we left. It was lovely! I just swam and read all day until we went out for dinner in the evening.
Having said all of that I'm really not complaining. I enjoyed looking after our holiday home and getting it ready for our next 5 months of guests.
We landed in San Jose last night at around 10pm. (Unfortunately I had booked the flight forgetting that our car was parked in San Francisco airport!)
Anyone who knows San Jose airport will know that you land with your final descent coming through the downtown area. Yesterday was July 4th so as we landed we had the most amazing pyrotechnic displays at the tips of our wings! It was as though they had decided that our plane would get a special July 4th welcome!! All in all the flight mess up was a very worthwhile mistake as we saw some of the best fireworks ever - and the cab ride to SFO was not that bad or scary really!!!
Today I called my mum to make sure she was ready for her flight over tomorrow.
Disaster! She had lost her passport somewhere between Gatwick and Heathrow. After mobilising most of the UK we found her passport on a National Express coach (extra special thanks to the Amazing Tim on the emergency line)
Managed to unpack about half of our bags today - a major achievement given the amount of time spent on the phone looking for the wandering passport!
Looking forward to picking Mum & Heidi up from the airport tomorrow - but for now sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!