Hot in Atlanta

It's shortly past 9 o'clock pm, Sunday 20, 2008. Charles and I just got back from an evening walk in the neighborhood close to our apartment complex. When we left about an hour ago it was just starting to get a little dark, the temperature just below 90 F (a bit over 30 C)... wishing that it would've been a bit cooler. I love taking walks through the different neighborhoods... admiring the nice houses, complaining about the horrible ones, counting how many cars some driveways can hold, trying to get a glimpse of the back yards to see if they have pools or not. Tonight we were out at just the right time to see the lightning bugs. Except for lady bugs and roly polys I think that these are the only other insects that I'm not scared of. My first memory of lightning bugs was when our family took a trip to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. I was maybe 7 or 8, I'm not sure. Anyway, what I remember was that when it was just getting dark outside we took off the plastic wrapping on the plastic cups at the hotel and went outside and tried to catch the lightning bugs. I'll have to verify this with my dad though, it could've also been some dream. :)

On the way back to our apartment we considered dipping our feet in the pool to cool off a bit, but there was still quite a lot going on at the pool, so we decided to just head back home. I had to bring the fan to the living room, which we usually have in the bedroom. It's funny how the air conditioner just isn't enough sometimes.

Last week I started studying for my first CPA exam (CPA, certified public accountant = auktoriserad revisor). There are four parts of the CPA examination and I'm taking the first one in exactly a month and the second one I have scheduled to take a few days before coming to Sweden in the end of October. The content of each exam is massive and this means that I'll be studying practically every day (except for Fridays) and every weekend for the next three months. Even though it'll be quite tough handling this with a full time job, it actually is quite fun. Luckliy Charles started to play golf again, so we both manage to keep ourselves busy.

For the 4th of July weekend, which was two weeks ago, we decided to go to Charleston in South Carolina. We spent most of the time at the beach, even though it was cloudy most of the time. The ocean water was suprisingly warm. We did also walk around in Charleston a bit, until it just got too hot. It's a wonderful little town, it felt quite European actually.










Good night, godnatt, bonne nuit...