  It feels like its been forever since i posted. Alot has happened since then so im going to get my blog upto date before it gets any worse. Well i took my finals and wasn't so excited to find that i got a 61 on hoyles, but i felt a little better when i got a 83 on my spanish3 exam. Anyways school was finally over and me and sarah went to chick-fil-a for lunch. It was really good to just be us again. Since she and david broke up, i've worried that i'd lose her friendship.
But now that we've seen eachother more i know it just takes us keeping intouch. Anyways, after lunch we went to the card store and i got stephen a card that he could open once i'd left for my vacation. I was feeling so bad that i had to be the first one to leave and i had to leave that very night. But before i took sarah home, we wrote the card and then we delivered it... haha it was so funny because we were going to just put it in his mail box but she wanted to put in in his car so she ran all the way up his drive way, threw the card in his car window, and ran back to the car yelling for me to hurry because stephen's little brother saw her. Later i asked stephen what scot (his little brother) said about it and he said that scott just came in and said "i just saw your girlfriend" but in that mocking voice that ppl who don't have bfs or gfs use to make fun of you. So i took sarah home and then stephen came over for a while just to hang out before my flight left.
On the way down we had a direct flight and we were in this little bitty plane. Im not a big fan of planes, much less the little ones that you have to go outside to climb those little steps to board the plane on. We arrived in orlando aroud 1 their time (midnight our time) and picked up our rented van. Then we went to the condo where we were staying and slept until 10. The first full-day there we went to typhoon lagoon. (i don't remember a whole lot of specifics...) The next day we went to Magic Kingdom where my brother and sister where two big chickens and we didn't get to ride Splash Mountain cuz they were too scared.
But i did see a street band with an awesome drummer. He had all kind of crash cymbals and double bass and everything-granted he was no Jeff Queen-but he was pretty good for a theme park player. The day after that we went to Epcot. It really sucks because they stopped the ride in the Seas and they got rid of alot of the good shows that used to be in the Land. BUt they did have this new ride that was alot of fun. Its called mission space and its a simulator ride.
YOur put into groups of four and your assigned different jobs-navigator, engineer, commander or pilot. So you get into the simulator and theres a dash board that comes in toward you closing you in the seats. It had a movie that you watch and each person had two main buttons to press are specific times that correlated to the movie. I liked it because it was like that old centerfuge ride that the space and rocket center where the whole thing spins so fast you can feel the g-forces when you take off and land. Me and my brother must have ridden that ride atleast 15 times... it was pretty fun. That night we were listening to Paul Revere and the Raiders-they were really big back when the beatles were popular and i got an autographed picture and cd.
I thought that was cool. After the band played my dad told me that the next day we were going to Discovery Cove. (thats the place where you can go swim with the dolphins and fish) I was so excited. That place was so much fun. And the best part, besides the dolphin, was that they limit the number of ppl they let into the Cove so it wasn't crowded. It was really fun swimming with the dolphin.
My dolphin was named JC and the trainer taught me all these signs to get him to do different tricks. One thing i got him to do was to give me a kiss. Well after my interaction with the dolphin, my mom got a cd disk with a picture of me kissing the dolphin. That night i thought it'd be cute of me to send the picture to stephen with a little note on it. The note said that i still cared about him but i'd met a guy(meaning JC) and that i'd spent the day with him and we ended up kissing. CUTE huh?
NOt really, stephen couldn't download the picture. So here he is worried that i'd really met someone because i never said that it was the dolphin in the e-mail. I felt horrible for the rest of the vacation. He finally got his e-mail to work and then he said that he felt kinda slow for not realizing that it was the dolphin. I felt soooo mean. Its all alright now tho.
Back to my vacation..... the next day we went to MGM and rode the rockin roller coaster about 20 times - fun stuff. I thought that it was cool yet kinda wierd that i was recongized by this guy while i was getting on the roller coaster. He was talking about the drumline and how he enjoyed the show this past year. He asked me a bunch of questions and then said that he looked forward to seeing us next year. I remember that he was from Georgia but i have no clue what school he went to. Its good to know that our line is known, we're not an unknown line anymore, YAY!
That night my dad took me down to Pleasure Island. It was pretty fun but there were too many cops around and too many drunk people. We went to two different clubs before getting dinner and going home. I just liked the fact that me and my dad had time to do something just the two of us. He's always working and i don't get to see him much when we're home so it was just fun to hang out. Then we went to Blizzard Beach the next day.
And the last day in Orlando we went to Sea World. Over all i had fun in Orlando, but it would have been nice to see some old friends while i was there. The day we went to sea world, we drove down to Ft Myers to see my uncle chuck and aunt terry. I was so glad to see my cousin kelly! She just graduated high school this year and it was just good to talk to someone within a few years of me. (by this time i'd already had plenty of the oh-so-loved family time and was ready to get back to my friends.
)We hung out friday night and then saturday morning we went to the mall. We were only suppose to be looking for shoes but she ended up getting a 3rd hole in her ear. It's so not fair because her parents wouldn't even notice. But that took us an extra hour cuz she had to pick out some new jewelry and a new belly button ring. Then we drove down to Captiva. I was just happy that we had some time to hang out.
Captiva was pretty fun. It felt like it lasted waaay more than 3 days but i was just anxious to get home. We went to captiva to see all my dad's college buddies-who i call aunt or uncle, they're not related, just friends. These guys were completely crazy-but they're fun to hang out with. For pretty much the entire weekend all of them were drunk. Its kind of sad because ALL of us had been drinking... but im proud to say that my parents were the most sober of all of the adults.
I got to have many a mudslides, magaritas, and dak-a-ries (can't spell) last weekend. But the funniest thing of all was that the night before we came home all the adults went out to dinner-inturn dumping ALL the kids on me to babysit- and got really wasted. My rents weren't drunk at all but they didn't trust themselves to drive back so they called me and my cousin ryan(he's also 16 and in my opinion looks just like bogan but more muscular) to come get them. So it was kind of funny, kind of scary that me and ryan had to go get them but atleast they all made it back safely. So Monday i wake up at 7 FL time -6 our time- and we went to the air port just to find that our first flight was delayed by about 3 hours. We didn't get out of Ft myers until 1 or so.
Then because of our last delay we missed our flight from atlanta so we had to wait another 2 and a half hours just to get from atlanta to huntsville. The day was not a good one. We didn't get to huntsville until around 7. To top it all off, the air lines lost my entire family's bags. That made my dad sooooo mad. He was suppose to leave yesterday morning-the morning after we got home- on a business trip and he needed his bag.
They finally found our bags and the air lines delivered them that night. Thats my vacation for you. Im gonna write for tomorrow and today on another post because this one is getting really long. Overall i had a really great vacation. It makes me sad to think that i only have two more with my family before i leave for college. 
