FLORIDA!! =)
Oh my gosh..Florida was absolutely amazing! I had soo much fun. So okay here i'll explain everything that I did while I was there!
(it's really long, just warning you!)
Thursday- Woke up around 2:30 and got in the shower & stuff then we left to drive to Chicago around 4 AM. We got to the airport around 7ish and we were kinda panicking because our flight was supposed to be at 8:05, but we got up there and luckily it got changed to 8:45 so we made it with no problem. I got the window seat on the way there =D and I sat next to Rachel (paul's girlfriend) and Paul. It was soo much fun..we watched 'King Of The Hill' and laughed a lot, and then we listened to the different stations of music they had on the plane and we danced to them and stuff and it was really funny. About 2 hours passed and we arrived at St. Petersburg, Florida! Oh gosh, I can't even explain how happy I was haha! I saw a Palm Tree when we were still in the air, and I saw the beach and I was just so happy! Then we got off the plane and like that smell of Florida, it amazes me, haha I just love it! We got our luggage and all that good stuff then started driving to Sarasota! We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch too. We got to my Grandparent's house around 3ish I think cuz the time changes ahead 1 hour. Then we just hung out there for awhile and stuff then my cousin Jacque came to pick me & Rachel up cuz we stayed at her and her husband Matt's house. Their house is huge! I love it..its like brand new too. Since her and Matt are in their 20's and just got married about 1 1/2 years ago they're a lot of fun and like to party still haha! So we hung out there and showered and stuff then went to the Rehersal Dinner for my cousin Jacob (Jacque's brother) and Bethany's wedding! Ah soo much fun. I met a lot of awesome people: Brandon, Kennet, Holly, another Rachel, Chris & his wife, and a few others! They're all about 16-20 years old, & they're all really awesome.
After the Rehersal dinner, we ALL decided to go back to Jacque & Matt's house (Brandon, Kennet, Holly, Chris & his wife, Natalie, the other Rachel, Rachel, Paul, Josh, Scott & i think thats all) and we watched tv and ate lots of food then we watched 'Home Alone' and just kinda messed around and had a good time. Then everyone left around 1:30 after spending 20 minutes looking for Chris's keys when they were in the couch the whole time. Then I went to bed.
Friday- Me & Rachel woke up around 11:30ish or something and then ate some cereal and watched tv for a lil while. Then Rachel went for a jog and I just kinda sat around some more. Basically we just sat around all day until about 3:30 then we started to get ready for the wedding! Had some trouble deciding what to do to our hair..but Rachel did my hair really cute and hers looked adorable too! I called Zack around 5 cuz it would be 4 Illinois time so it was like right when he was getting home. He sounded surprised! Haha it was cute though. Then my parents picked us up around 6 and we went to the wedding. Got there and talked to Brandon & Kennet for awhile, then I met up with my cousin Faith and she sat with me & Rachel. The wedding was beautiful! The colors were like Fuschia, Red, Black, Yellow & Orange, but mainly just red & black. It was really pretty and everyone looked amazing. It was kinda a mexican theme wedding even though none of them were Mexican, but it was definately a fun wedding. hahah the Groomsmen song that they walked into was that one old rock song it was like "Girl, you got me goin.." lalala haha it was so awesome! We all balled our eyes out, but hey whats new right! =P Then we had to stay there for awhile for loooottss of family pictures which took forever but it was cool. Then we went to the Reception which was at Batanical Gardens and it was soo pretty there. The dance was soo much fun, I met even more people and danced with just about everyone who was there haha! I hung out outside with a lot of people and it was really pretty cuz it was right by the ocean and it was just gorgeous. We left around 12 or so and took Faith home then went back to my Grandparents house for like 5 minutes and me & rachel stayed in the car and wow we were so slap-happy..funniest thing ever though! lol wow. Anyways, then we went back to Jacque & Matt's and Chris called there around 1:15 and was like 'HEYY EVERYONE WANTS YOU GUYS TO COME OVER HERE CUZ WE'RE ALL HERE JUST HANGING OUT SO COME OVER!' and i was like soo tired and so was Rachel and paul was going back to my Grandparents house soon so we said we couldn't go unless they picked us up, but they didn't lol so then Chris was just like 'okkk well Brandon wants to Holla atcha!' hahah it was hillarious. I love those kids! Anyways, I then went to bed around 1:30 or something.
Saturday- Woke up around 8 and got in the shower & stuff then went to Dutchman with the WHOOOLE family for Breakfast. Lots of people there! My little cousin Chynasia is soo adorable (everyone calls her Mei Mei, cuz Mei is her middle name and she is Chinese cuz my uncle Bob married a girl Emily and Em is from Singapore!) well anyways, she is really really cute! =) Then after breakfast we went to G&G's house and changed and stuff then my family & Rachel of course went Siesta Beach!! AH =) I love the beach, a lot! It was soo much fun! Brandon showed up there around 2:30 and we went Skinboarding!! Definately one of the funnest things ever, but its really hard, and it really hurts when you wipe out thats for sure haha! After awhile I found a payphone and called Zackary =) he was definately jealous of me muahaha! Then me & rachel got temporary Tattoo's on our upper backs and I got 2 hearts with like lil swirly thingys and she got a huge butterfly! Of course Brandon was laughing at us cuz he's got like 3 real tattoo's haha! My 'cousin' Corey was supposed to come up there with some of his friends, but they couldn't get a ride so that made me sad but its all good. We left the beach after awhile then went our seperate ways to go get ready for the night.
That night we all went to my Uncle Jeff's house! We got there and ate pizza and then we all watched 'Elf' which was a very funny movie, I loved it! Just sat around most of the night and talked..it was a lot of fun! Then me, Rachel, Paul & Erik left around 11:30 and went to the Beach and that was sooo amazing..the moonlight was just shining on the water and it was gorgeous =) Also we picked up a lot of seashells which is always fun! Then we left the beach around 12:15. There was this accident on the bridge, 2 guys in a truck flipped over and stuff and it was scary, but they were both okay. That took about 20 minutes to get outta there. After that we dropped the boys off at my grandparents house then we drove back to Jacque & Matt's house and packed our stuff then went to bed around 2ish or something.
Sunday- Woke up around 7:30 and I was too lazy to take a shower so I just put my hair up and put on some comfy clothes and washed my face and brushed my teeth, then I packed some more and my parents came to pick us up around 8:15. We said our goodbyes which is always sad, then we left to drive to St. Petersburg to go to the Airport. We thought our plane was at 11:15 but nooo it was really at 1:05 cuz it got changed AGAIN, so we were stuck at the airport forever! I just slept and listened to music. Then finally our flight came..it was sad cuz we had to come back here in Illinois where the weather is like really cold..and it was in the 80's the whole time in Florida! It was crazy. I slept the whole time on the plane and just listened to music and before I knew it we were back in Illinois. I was sad, but also kinda happy to be home too. It was way too cold when we got off the plane, I was freezing! But then we got our van and drove back to sucky Washington.
Got home and checked my messages..31 messages! Craziness! It was cool too though.
Wow this is soooo long..sorry everybody!
Congradulations if you made it through all of this, i'm proud of you =)
(it's really long, just warning you!)
Thursday- Woke up around 2:30 and got in the shower & stuff then we left to drive to Chicago around 4 AM. We got to the airport around 7ish and we were kinda panicking because our flight was supposed to be at 8:05, but we got up there and luckily it got changed to 8:45 so we made it with no problem. I got the window seat on the way there =D and I sat next to Rachel (paul's girlfriend) and Paul. It was soo much fun..we watched 'King Of The Hill' and laughed a lot, and then we listened to the different stations of music they had on the plane and we danced to them and stuff and it was really funny. About 2 hours passed and we arrived at St. Petersburg, Florida! Oh gosh, I can't even explain how happy I was haha! I saw a Palm Tree when we were still in the air, and I saw the beach and I was just so happy! Then we got off the plane and like that smell of Florida, it amazes me, haha I just love it! We got our luggage and all that good stuff then started driving to Sarasota! We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch too. We got to my Grandparent's house around 3ish I think cuz the time changes ahead 1 hour. Then we just hung out there for awhile and stuff then my cousin Jacque came to pick me & Rachel up cuz we stayed at her and her husband Matt's house. Their house is huge! I love it..its like brand new too. Since her and Matt are in their 20's and just got married about 1 1/2 years ago they're a lot of fun and like to party still haha! So we hung out there and showered and stuff then went to the Rehersal Dinner for my cousin Jacob (Jacque's brother) and Bethany's wedding! Ah soo much fun. I met a lot of awesome people: Brandon, Kennet, Holly, another Rachel, Chris & his wife, and a few others! They're all about 16-20 years old, & they're all really awesome.
After the Rehersal dinner, we ALL decided to go back to Jacque & Matt's house (Brandon, Kennet, Holly, Chris & his wife, Natalie, the other Rachel, Rachel, Paul, Josh, Scott & i think thats all) and we watched tv and ate lots of food then we watched 'Home Alone' and just kinda messed around and had a good time. Then everyone left around 1:30 after spending 20 minutes looking for Chris's keys when they were in the couch the whole time. Then I went to bed.
Friday- Me & Rachel woke up around 11:30ish or something and then ate some cereal and watched tv for a lil while. Then Rachel went for a jog and I just kinda sat around some more. Basically we just sat around all day until about 3:30 then we started to get ready for the wedding! Had some trouble deciding what to do to our hair..but Rachel did my hair really cute and hers looked adorable too! I called Zack around 5 cuz it would be 4 Illinois time so it was like right when he was getting home. He sounded surprised! Haha it was cute though. Then my parents picked us up around 6 and we went to the wedding. Got there and talked to Brandon & Kennet for awhile, then I met up with my cousin Faith and she sat with me & Rachel. The wedding was beautiful! The colors were like Fuschia, Red, Black, Yellow & Orange, but mainly just red & black. It was really pretty and everyone looked amazing. It was kinda a mexican theme wedding even though none of them were Mexican, but it was definately a fun wedding. hahah the Groomsmen song that they walked into was that one old rock song it was like "Girl, you got me goin.." lalala haha it was so awesome! We all balled our eyes out, but hey whats new right! =P Then we had to stay there for awhile for loooottss of family pictures which took forever but it was cool. Then we went to the Reception which was at Batanical Gardens and it was soo pretty there. The dance was soo much fun, I met even more people and danced with just about everyone who was there haha! I hung out outside with a lot of people and it was really pretty cuz it was right by the ocean and it was just gorgeous. We left around 12 or so and took Faith home then went back to my Grandparents house for like 5 minutes and me & rachel stayed in the car and wow we were so slap-happy..funniest thing ever though! lol wow. Anyways, then we went back to Jacque & Matt's and Chris called there around 1:15 and was like 'HEYY EVERYONE WANTS YOU GUYS TO COME OVER HERE CUZ WE'RE ALL HERE JUST HANGING OUT SO COME OVER!' and i was like soo tired and so was Rachel and paul was going back to my Grandparents house soon so we said we couldn't go unless they picked us up, but they didn't lol so then Chris was just like 'okkk well Brandon wants to Holla atcha!' hahah it was hillarious. I love those kids! Anyways, I then went to bed around 1:30 or something.
Saturday- Woke up around 8 and got in the shower & stuff then went to Dutchman with the WHOOOLE family for Breakfast. Lots of people there! My little cousin Chynasia is soo adorable (everyone calls her Mei Mei, cuz Mei is her middle name and she is Chinese cuz my uncle Bob married a girl Emily and Em is from Singapore!) well anyways, she is really really cute! =) Then after breakfast we went to G&G's house and changed and stuff then my family & Rachel of course went Siesta Beach!! AH =) I love the beach, a lot! It was soo much fun! Brandon showed up there around 2:30 and we went Skinboarding!! Definately one of the funnest things ever, but its really hard, and it really hurts when you wipe out thats for sure haha! After awhile I found a payphone and called Zackary =) he was definately jealous of me muahaha! Then me & rachel got temporary Tattoo's on our upper backs and I got 2 hearts with like lil swirly thingys and she got a huge butterfly! Of course Brandon was laughing at us cuz he's got like 3 real tattoo's haha! My 'cousin' Corey was supposed to come up there with some of his friends, but they couldn't get a ride so that made me sad but its all good. We left the beach after awhile then went our seperate ways to go get ready for the night.
That night we all went to my Uncle Jeff's house! We got there and ate pizza and then we all watched 'Elf' which was a very funny movie, I loved it! Just sat around most of the night and talked..it was a lot of fun! Then me, Rachel, Paul & Erik left around 11:30 and went to the Beach and that was sooo amazing..the moonlight was just shining on the water and it was gorgeous =) Also we picked up a lot of seashells which is always fun! Then we left the beach around 12:15. There was this accident on the bridge, 2 guys in a truck flipped over and stuff and it was scary, but they were both okay. That took about 20 minutes to get outta there. After that we dropped the boys off at my grandparents house then we drove back to Jacque & Matt's house and packed our stuff then went to bed around 2ish or something.
Sunday- Woke up around 7:30 and I was too lazy to take a shower so I just put my hair up and put on some comfy clothes and washed my face and brushed my teeth, then I packed some more and my parents came to pick us up around 8:15. We said our goodbyes which is always sad, then we left to drive to St. Petersburg to go to the Airport. We thought our plane was at 11:15 but nooo it was really at 1:05 cuz it got changed AGAIN, so we were stuck at the airport forever! I just slept and listened to music. Then finally our flight came..it was sad cuz we had to come back here in Illinois where the weather is like really cold..and it was in the 80's the whole time in Florida! It was crazy. I slept the whole time on the plane and just listened to music and before I knew it we were back in Illinois. I was sad, but also kinda happy to be home too. It was way too cold when we got off the plane, I was freezing! But then we got our van and drove back to sucky Washington.
Got home and checked my messages..31 messages! Craziness! It was cool too though.
Wow this is soooo long..sorry everybody!
Congradulations if you made it through all of this, i'm proud of you =)