So I decided to take some time off from rochester NY and head to florida for thanskgiving. For some reason i decided it would be a good idea to drive down. It saved me some money, but it was honestly the longest drive ever. If you’ve ever been in a car for 18 hours straight, only stopping for gas, you’d understand what i meant.
anyway. it was a pretty good trip. my brother has grown up so much. i’m glad i got to spend some time hanging out with him.
I got down to florida on a friday night after leaving rochester early friday morning.. (about 3:30 am). We went to one of Cody’s baseball games the next morning. It was a little bit of a trip, and we got to stay in a hotel.
His game was at the Cleveland Indian’s stadium down there. I know what you’re thinking, why would the cleveland indians have a stadium in florida? and to answer this i say.. why not?
supposedly it’s where they filmed “Major League”
Cody managed to steal some bases during the game. That was pretty cool.
Then we all decided to go to a hooters for dinner after the game. did you know they have a hooters inn? i have pictures. i can’t even begin to imagine the amazing things that must go on inside there.
It was different being in a hooters with an entire little league baseball team.
After the hooters the boys were a little crazy, i mean honestly.. do you remember beign 13? you had all this energy and nothing to do.. so i had a few beers and was attacked with pillows..
The next day Cody’s team 10-run-ruled their opposition, so that game was over quick..
The rest of the break I was just hanging out around Mom’s place with Cody, and jen would stop by occassionaly. I monkeyed with their computer systems, and hooked up their stereo equipment for them. IT Superhero at work.
For thanksgiving grandma and grandpa came out to mom’s house. It was a great day. there was all kinds of sunshine. It was amazing to have sunshine and palm trees for thanksgiving.
Here’s grandpa enjoying the sun.
The rest of the break was spent randomly hanging out with jen and cody, and going to the mall a little bit. mostly there was just a whole lot of relaxing.
i did manage to go ice skating outside in florida. that was a pretty cool event. probably another one of my stories that you guys just wont believe, and i dont have any pictures either. but believe me, it was pretty cool. they had a rink inside of a big tent, and at night they raised the sides of the tent and you could just skate around. i hung out with jen in downtown gainesville after skating, and we watched euro-trip at her apartment type place.
she lives with 20 some other girls in a dorm / suite type place. they have a gigantic kitchen, and more rules than i know what to do with. it wasn’t a very fun place to be, everyone was gone because of the holidays, so there wasn’t nearly as much fun to be had.
on the ride back home i was making pretty good time. I decided that i needed to make a stop at the new river bridge and enjoy the scenery and stretch my legs. i’m glad i did. It didn’t add too much extra time to my trip, and i got to look at a really sweet bridge.
I stopped by Jen’s house too.. that was….. interesting to say the least.. i made up a fun little page to tell you what i think of that
Long story short.. now i’m back in Rochester and looking for things to do on the weekends.
I’ve been through the first week of classes, and i’m just getting around to writing about all of this vacation stuff. as usual i just can’t seem to find the time to get things done. maybe it’s a motivation problem, maybe i just have a lot of things going on.
More updates when I get more fun pictures of parties to post.