Niki was getting bored in South Beach. And she has been under the weather a little. So, Sharmila and I grabbed a drink and we sat down for Niki and I to play some trivia.
I started with “Capitals of North American countries” thinking I was good with the Central American countries.
She creamed me with the Caribbean countries š It was not even close…
That is a Trident submarine prowling the waters off Fort Lauderdale. (Of course, miles away from the shore). These can carry two dozen submarine launched ballistic missiles and hundreds of cruise missiles. Is generally considered as an effective war deterrent in the world…
I can’t believe I forgot to get my camera this trip…
Sharmila and I were taking stroll in the beach when we saw something in the horizon. At the bottom of the dark clouds that had started looming in the horizon, suddenly a funnel like structure started forming and came down to touch the water. We could see visibly- although it was very very far – the mist of water in an otherwise straight edge of the water in the horizon.
We saw one, then another and then a third one. A few minutes later, they slowly disappeared, starting to recede from the ground level till they vanished in the dark clouds.
I guess that will go down as our first sighting of tornadoes in our life!!!
Unfortunately, I did not have my DSLR camera with me – so had to make do with my iPhone…
The four of us were waiting to board the plane when Sharmila asked me to look behind me. I saw a lady that distinctly looked like somebody I knew from the past but I was not sure since she had her sunglasses on.
I looked at her for a few seconds to see if she would notice me while being on the call that she was on. Again, because of the sun glasses, I was not sure whether she saw us and knew nothing of us or it was indeed Vanessa but she had not seen us yet.
I took a few more attempts and even called out “Vanessa” couple of times.
Without any luck.
Eventually, I concluded that it was somebody else and turned towards the boarding gate waiting our turn.
Till somebody from behind called out “Rajib?”
Well, what do you know? It was indeed my old friend from Canada – Vanessa. I met her over a decade back in Toronto but she lives in south Florida now. In fact, during a previous annual trip to Fort Lauderdale, we, as a family, had met her and her family. Her daughter Gigi was a small baby then.
Vanessa is also a fan of Sharmila’s paintings and I believe a couple of her paintings are on the walls of her house!!
The trip down the road has barely started and we already met a fellow traveler with who, many moons back, we had walked a few steps together …
