On Thursday, September 4th, we flew to West Palm Beach, Florida to visit Eva's friend Heidi - our last ´parent figure´ we could lean on before venturing off by ourselves into Latin America. Heidi lives in a small town called Lake Placid, near Sebring. It's in the center of Florida and 2 hours from everything. Heidi is a woman of action - she used to wrestle gators. Nethertheless she dropped everything to pick us up at the airport, about 4 hours round trip. Thanks Heidi! That Friday, we took a trip to Tampa Bay to visit the aquarium. Its pretty impressive, focusing mostly on wildlife in and around Florida's wetlands, beaches, oceans and waterways. On Saturday, we went to the island of Sannibel to visit the wildlife refuge where Heidi used to work. The J.N. Ding
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