Well, I'm sadly sitting at the Tampa airport awaiting my flight home to end my big adventure!! I'll try to recap my last week or so in Florida since I wasn't so diligent about updating...the beach called my name much louder than the blog did...sorry guys!
My friends Ashley and Andrea ended up flying down over the weekend on some cheap flights they found on Southwest. It was a very short visit...Saturday night til Tuesday morning because of these crazy real world jobs that don't see the importance of a beach trip we have done for the past 5 years! But really, they have been down about 6 or 7 times with me and staying with Mama, so when they found the cheap flights, they decided they had to attempt to make it one last time! On Saturday night we went to our favorite restaurant the Salty Dog...well I'm not sure if it's necessarily our favorite restaurant, but we've become friends with the bartender over the years so it's nice to have free drinks for the night...and I guess you can't really beat a beer battered fried hotdog....mmmm now that's good eatin'!!!! After Salty Dog we headed over to the Beach Club for a bit. One of my good friends from UT, Meghan, and her husband Alan, now live in Bradenton (just north of Sarasota) and so they came down and met us out on Siesta Key Saturday night and then again Sunday afternoon on the beach! I lived down in Sarasota for 6 months and I only had one friend...now that I'm gone I have 3 down there!
Oh well...Sunday was nice weather and we attempted a sunset dinner on the beach...but ended up getting clouds instead. We did get to see the drum circle that meets every Sunday night on the beach which was very cool. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. There was a HUGE group out there and everyone brings their bongos, drums, pots, shakers, all kinds of stuff and they just drum until the sun goes down. People are dancing, coming and going, joining in...it's a very free spirit event. Yeah, free spririt sums it up well...but very neat to see.
It was cloudy all day Monday and started raining when we were at the beach. Since the beach didn't work out, the second best alternative was the Daiquiri Deck. We left the beach at 1:30 and sat at the DD til 5:00! It's a great little open bar in the Village that has a whole wall of daiquiris and they make all kinds of combinations and delicious flavors...it's always a fun time there! We then went to dinner at Bonefish with Mama, and the Trefrys (my aunt, uncle, and cousins). The girls were off the next morning at 8am bright and early to fly home and go straight to work. But it was a nice visit.
My last two days Mama and I went to the beach then pool then dinner and errands. Uncle Jeff cooked dinner on Wednesday night for us after the boys soccer game. That's always a treat, he is my uncle who is the chef...we had duck...mmm! Oh and Mama bought a new laptop...apparently her old one at 256 megabytes wasn't worth fixing up when they don't even sell computers with less than 2000 megabytes of RAM anymore. And the crazy laptop was only about 3-4 years old...these things are disposable these days!! So now high-tech Mama has a new Dell with 4 Gigabyte RAM with a webcam included! She's all hooked up on Skype and is ready to chat with me when I head over to Korea and Italy!!! So it was a minor impulse buy :/...we went to Best Buy looking for help hooking up a webcam to her old computer and getting an estimate for cleaning up her old slow one...and it turned into a new laptop purchase! Hopefully everything will work well and fast for her though!
Well I'm now lying in my own bed for the first time in 3 weeks and it feels GREAT!! I had a little break in the middle of the post because my plane was boarding before I had time to finish writing! Anyway, I'm home with laundry started and tomorrow I'm cleaning and baking for a shower we're having at our house for Anne Thessin on Saturday. I have a week at home before I leave for Korea on Friday!! I've been counting down days til that trip since November and it's finally here!!! Woo hoooo! I'll keep updated!
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