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well so anyway...i have returned... im all stuffed up because last night i caught a cold, so that sux but im home and have some free time so i guess i'll update about my trip.
me and dad took a plane to get down there last saturday. when we had to go through security the metal detector kept going off on my dad, so they put him in this glass cage thing until somebody could wave that little handheld metal dectector thing over him...turned out, it was his money-clip setting off the detector so they let him go. lol i was kind of scared we werent going to make it out of there. so anyway, our first flight took us to Atlanta...i hadn't rode on a plane in like 10 years so i was really scared...i was text-messaging holly b4 we got on... then when we did and the plane took off, i got reallys cared a few times when it shook, so i grabbed onto the seat infront of me. i dont think the people infront of me cared much for that but oh well. then we transfererred planes an d this time i got stuck between 2 people i didnt know. it wasnt alot of fun let me tell you. on my left was this one dude that sort of looked like a hot version of that bucky guy from american idol, and to my right was this girl with a baby on her lap(yeah and you know how much i love babies)...so of course the baby kept trying to grab onto me the entire time, but i plugged in my headset and just listened to music the whole time and zoned out.
when we get to the tampa airport my uncle mike and grandpa pick us up in a van... the door closed on my dad's finger so he was bitching about that(not that i blame him), then yadda yadda we finally get to wehre we're staying. one half of the family was staying in one beach house, and the other in a separate one. Me, my dad, my sister, my uncle mark, and my aunt margie stayed in one, while my uncle mike, aunt rhonda, cousin laura & david and thier baby, cousin dennis & cheryl and their 3 kids, stayed in another...
well anyway we went to the beach alot, since it was only like 5 minutes walking distacne from the house we were at. we also got some stuff from the surrounding shops. on monday night, me and mel stayed at my grandparents house to spend some quality time with them.
early wednesday morning my sister had to go home to kentucky cause she had to work or something like that... and then like right after that my uncle mark and aunt margie decide they're going to leave early because they were tired of the bugs(it was love-bug mating season and htey were flying EVERYWHERE...i admit, they were irritating, but still, theyre just bugs)...so anyway, they leave and then it was just me and my dad left at one house by ourselves... so we go visit the other half of the family for a while. it was sometime either wednesday night or thursday that my dad caught like bronchitis or something...and he kept caughing for the rest of the trip. and my dad coughs LOUD...so that was obnoxious but what can you do. btw, apparently dennis and cheryl's whole family had strep-throat the week before so we were all scared we'd catch it but i dont think anybody else did...i got my cold but thats a different story.
anyway, then on friday we had to drive laura and david up to the airport. we went shoping at st. armand's circle and then ate lunch with them. after we dropped them off at the airport me and my dad went to the dog-track and bet on a few races... haha we didn't win Anything but thats alrgiht...still had fun. after that we went back to the house so dad could take a nap, since he still wasnt feeling good. that was okay with me cause i was tired anyway... later that night we went and visited w/ my grandparents for a little while longer and hten we all went out to dinner. we were going to go to this place called Durango's, but when we got their, it turned out the place didnt excist anymore...so instead we went to R.J. Gator's...its kind of like a fancy applebees i guess. they had alot of food. i got this bucket of fish, shrimp, and clamstrips and it was good... after that me and my dad came home, and then this morning we headed back to SC.
i could have flown back yesterday but i didnt want to go by myself so instead i rode w/ my dad. he was driving back because my grandparents gave him their old car... it took us close to 11 hours to make it back so that wore me out... plus we were driving in rain almost the whole time, because there was a tropical storm going on the whole time. oh well. but we made it home, and now i'm going to just take some nyquil and go to sleep. tomorrow is my other grandma's birthday so my mom wants me to go with them to celebrate so i rpobably will...unless i really feel crappy because of my cold. guess we'll see
oh ya and i took pictures but i havent gotten my film developed yet. when i do, i'll post up the pix here.