Bad Blogger

okay so I have been very bad but as soon as I have time to catch up on everything I have lots to share and a billion and one pictures.

the basic run down before I can update later with more details.
Chris was here last weekend for his golden birthday :) we went to the beach, space center and boating with the Krause family.

It has been a busy week at work...we are really shorthanded because a lot of people are getting terminated including a few of my friends :( which really stinks because we only have a few more weeks left.

I had graduation this morning and had a blast...lots of pictures from this.

I am off to work at the coffee kiosk now. I will post later.
All my love!

What have I been doing?

So as usual everything is still busy. The crowds at the park have significantly decreased which makes for a lot of boring days. However it will be nice the next time I want to go play in the parks.

Monday was a fabulous day with my friend Natalie. We got pedicures, went shopping, and topped off the day with back to back movies that night with our friend Abel. We saw Date Night and Hot Tub Time Machine...Date Night was hilarious, I would recommend it to all of you. Hot Tub Time Machine was funny too but I think I was a little too tired to appreciate all of the humor. I thing that I appreciated from he movie was all the 80's references. They showed a cigarette vending machine several times and I remember always seeing those when I was little, one in particular at Tower Pizza in Missoula. We topped off the night at Haagen Daz and I got a delicious Dulce Dazzler...Dulce de Leche is this ice cream that they make that tastes like caramel...it is delicious and I am obsessed.
Here are Natalie and Abel at Haagen Daz.

Tuesday I took Natalie to the airport :( she went home for the rest of the week and weekend to surprise her family! She said everyone was shocked to see her and it worked out perfectly. She comes back tonight so I get to pick her up after work :)
Tuesday in my heritage class we watched a bunch of film clips from when the first opened Disneyland in California...it was pretty cool to see how excited everyone was even back then.

Tuesday night a bunch of the college program kids from work and I had a bbq at our apartment complex. We played sand volleyball and let me tell you, I can't jump to begin with and the sand made it so much harder...however I did learn that the majority of the people I work with are not that athletic because watching the play was pretty funny(a swing and a miss....a lot).

The part of Animal Kingdom that I work in most is called Camp Minnie Mickey so this picture is of all of us who work in Camp all the time...yet somehow I still always get funnel.

This is Omega's Yeti backpack JP...he hung out with me all night :)

One of my besties Jaimee and me.



My love muffin Omega

Me, Kimberly, Lydia, and Brad.

from left to right: James, Brad, Tony, Omega, and Alex

From left to right Kiara, Megan, Jaimee, Crystal, Omega in the front, Ola, James, me, Lydia, Melissa, Fernanda, and Alex in the back.

I still have been working in funnel a lot, although I got out of there last night and closed the coffee kiosk which is always painless. I had a woman yell at me about how we possibly couldn't have lids and then come back and apologize which was a first and nice.

Yesterday morning Lisa picked me up and we went and watched Mikey's lacrosse scrimmage. Box lacrosse (as they call it) was super similar to ice hockey without the ice. Mikey did great and it was fun to watch him because he always tries to explain things about lacrosse to me.

Chris comes on Friday for his golden birthday and we are all set up to have a great weekend.

Stealth/Titans Game

Yesterday I was able to switch my shift so I didn't have to be in funnel and I got to work earlier and shorter...and the icing on the cake I got to work in Nacho! My favorite stand that sells ice cream. :) It was a fantastic day at work. I got off at 3:30 and took a guest bus to the Old Key West Resort where Lisa picked me up. We went home and got the rest of the family and went to mass.

After mass we went to Gators for dinner. I enjoyed a nice Parmesan sandwich and sweet potato fries. And of course I couldn't resist a long island as a little treat to finishing my 58 hour work week.

Now to the game! The Orlando Titans play in the Amway Arena which is the same place that the Orlando Magic currently play in. The Magic are getting a new arena which will be ready for next year. It is maybe three blocks away from where Amway Arena is and seems like kind of a waste of money. The Titans were playing the Washington Stealth from Everett Washington. It was a "best of the west" versus "beast of the east". It was fun to watch, it is pretty fast paced like hockey or indoor soccer. But has parts of other sports in it too. There is a shot clock and you can't go over and back of the half line. I think the final score was 17-7 Washington...they kind of ran away with it in the second period. Overall it was fun to watch and a great night out.


Paul Rabil has the legs of a Greek God.


Similar to hockey...a potential fight breaking out.



Casey Powell (left) and Paul Rabil (right) were the best players on their respective teams.

Burns

The lack of updates are due to the pure exhaustion of working this week...from here on out every hour that I work is overtime. I have been in funnel every single day this week and have got a nice burn to match every single day...I have burned the palm of my hand 3 days...I have two nice red marks that will probably turn into scars on my forearm and I burned the hair off my fingers today...

I pretty much have been hating life and nothing new has happened...I tried to switch with a friend so I don't work in funnel on Saturday and instead will go to a professional lacrosse game with the Krause family...my fingers are crossed that it gets approved.

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter everyone!
We got up early this morning for a 7:00 AM Easter Mass. It was early but well worth it because we got to get to the beach for a full day.
I spent the day at Cocoa Beach with the Krause family and their friends. It was my first trip to the Atlantic Ocean and it was a beautiful day. It was 85 degrees and pure sunshine for most of the day. The kids did all kids of water activities and we older folk (since I am so old) mostly sat around and chatted. I worked on my tan a bit and managed to avoid burning my face to that nice lobster red color that both my father and Chris seem to run into so much.

People watching is always an enjoyable activity for me and the beach provides the perfect specimen for that activity. I was astounded by some of the hideous tattoos. One girl had some huge black thing all over the left side of her body...the minute she gains weight or gets pregnant will be ugly. One man had a huge eagle on his back...as the day went on all around the tattoo was turning bright red...he obviously forgot his sunscreen.

I really enjoyed watching all of the cruise ships take off at the end of the day. The all leave around four and set sail for the Bahamas. It is kind of like a really slow caravan. One takes off and then 20 minutes later another one takes off. They look like they are barely moving at all. Lisa says that since we are so close to the Bahamas the ships go really slow so they get there to dock at a perfect time the next morning.

It was a fantastic day but I certainly miss the get togethers for Easter at Gonzaga. We would go to mass together and make a huge brunch.

I hope all is well with you and your families!