Disney and Tub Naps

Wow, OK, lots to report. Friday I went to Disney with my family for my birthday. I was awoken Friday morning at 6 bright and plenty early. I was really not feeling the whole early thing since I had closed the night before at my job and didn't get home until after 12. Once I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed (and everyone else was dressed. My dad and my uncle were up and ready to go) we piled into the car and headed up to Orlando. Needless to say I did my best to sleep on the way up. Once there, it was a beautiful cool day. Surprisingly there weren't a ton of people there! We got to Magic Kingdom minutes after they had opened the park, what was my first stop you ask? Um, breakfast. Disney has the worlds BEST cinnamon buns, I swear to you. After some much needed nourishment it was time to hit the rides. Space Mountain was first on the list... you know you've come on the perfect day when you don't have to wait to get on Space Mountain. This ride was a must for us because they're going to be closing it down for a freakin year to do some renovations. So after that we headed on over to the other side of the park to do the rides over there... the idea of the day was to do 4 parks. Start with Magic Kingdom, head over to Epcot for lunch, MGM (oops excuse me I meant Hollywood Studios) for Rock N' Roller coaster (the parents had never been on it before. They loved it), and we would end in Animal Kingdom to hit Everest (something else they hadn't done before and liked a lot). Nine and a half hours for four parks. By the end I was dragging and was completely ready for a nice nap home. And that's what I got, a very very nice nap. Once home we grabbed some dinner and we all turned in pretty early.

Yesterday I was spending the day with Justin. I even got up fairly early! My plan was to make him dinner so I packed my clothes and a cooler of stuff that I would need to cook. It really reminded me of that scene in the movie "No Reservations" when he goes to cook her dinner and he shows up with groceries and his own knives. That's pretty much what I did. Haha! Oh btw, if you've never seen that movie, rent it. It's very good. So once I got up to Tampa, he took me to a new mall in New Tampa called Wiregrass mall. It's all outside but it's not an outlet. It was really cool, they have mostly everything: JCPenney, Macy's, Dillards, Hollister, a HUGE Victoria's Secret, and a two story Forever21, among other stores. After our shopping excursion we headed to Best Buy were I bought my brother a bday present and my friend Casey a bday present. We then had lunch (thank god cuz we were both starving). After that he took me downtown for a little bit. It was really cool kinda like being in New York or something... minus all the millions of people on the streets. I took some pictures (felt a bit like a tourist). We walked to the Tampa Theater, which was really pretty. I really hope we get to see some shows there. Justin said when I move up to Tampa it'll be our first date! I can't wait!!

While walking down the street I spotted a building the had a lizard painted on it, so what did I do? I took a picture!

Further down the street there was this beautiful Catholic church. The stained glass windows were marvelous. Justin asked me if I wanted to go inside and look around, I wanted to but I said no because there were people going in and I was nervous. I didn't want to disturb anyone... or get yelled at. I mean I wasn't exactly dressed to go into a church. I was wearing boots! Nobody wears boots to church! Still he dragged me in and I'm grateful that he did because it was beautiful inside. A man came up to us and started telling us some history about the church. It's the second oldest church in the Southeastern United States! The first being in St. Augustine. It's over a hundred years old or something crazy like that. He also told us that they had to redo all the stained glass windows to make them Hurricane proof. They had to order them all piece by piece and with the old stained glass they made things out of it (like lamp shades and stuff) and sold them in the gift shop, they also came with certificates of authenticity. The guy was really nice and let me take some pictures inside the church.

Here's the church from the street. That big window in the front was redone also.

Here's a picture of the inside. I didn't want to get too close because I didn't want to disturb anyone. But I just loved all the glass and the architecture of the inside.

This is the ceiling. Again with the glass and the paintings. After talking to the man inside I felt kind of enlightened. It was cool learning some stuff about a building that I would of just admired from the outside if it weren't for Justin.

We walked around some more I found a tree that I liked... it was all twisty looking. What did I do? I took a picture!

After I found my tree I found a very nice bench that was calling to my achy boot feet. OMG my feet were killing me. My right one was totally numb but my left was screaming at me. It was very painful. We went back to the car and headed home.

Matt (Justin's roommate) was having a friend over so they went out when we got home. It was really nice, we watched a movie called "Once" which I've been dying for him to see (rent it, it's great!) and he really liked it so that made me happy. We had a really nice conversation and just goofed off on our laptops. I took some pictures with my web cam. I fell asleep (I don't remember when actually) but Matt and his friend (who I cannot for the life of me remember his name) came in around 3:30. The apartment is only a one bedroom right now so Matt has his room and Justin has his bed in the living room... where Matt's friend crashed. I had noooo problem with that... until the kid started to snore. And I mean SNORE. I've never in my life heard a chainsaw that was louder. I can be fast asleep but if I wake up and hear someone snoring that's it. I'm done. I can't get back to sleep. SO I was pretty much screwed. I was awake and I was not going to get any sleep with the wall shaking snores that were coming from this guy. And Justin was fast asleep... how he slept through that I'll never know. So I had two choices. My first choice was to grab a pillow and sleep in the tub. Or my second was to go sleep in my car but it was cold so I ended up in the bathroom. So around 5:30 I made me a little bed in the tub. I figured they (being Matt and his friend) were drunk, had already peed for the night and I could get away with my bathroom tub plan. It was OK for a little while and I think I fell asleep but I had to turn over and my hip was so sore. Not to mention my knees too because I was curled up in the fetal position for an extended amount of time. I was not a happy camper. Justin found me at I don't know what time and brought me back out to bed. I was stretched out on my side so he covered my ear and put his face close to his hand to block out the snoring. I pretty much fell right to sleep for a little. Moral of the story: Never take your ipod out of your purse for you may never know when you'll need that sucker. Oh and tubs don't make good beds. Justin went to work and I went on home... and took a much needed nap. Basically I was a bum of epic proportions today. Pajamas and healthy dose of Gilmore Girls all day. Good Times.