New Year's Eve
So, I ended up (thankfully!) getting out of work early as I had hoped. (my VP is cool) This gave me plenty of time to get home, get ready, and get some food before we went over to Busch Gardens. (It also gave me about a half hour net time at my friend's house). So, parking was a nightmare (one person taking all the money for the lot - on two lanes at once) and took about 30 minutes, but once we were parked, we had a great time. The sum total of us was me, my Love, my friend Joolo, my friend Rand, his mom & step-dad, their friend and her daughter. It was a large and diverse group, but a fun group nonetheless. Everyone but Joolo and I are big rollarcoaster fans, but the cool thing was that since neither one of us could be dragged on one even if we were dead, we hung out for the first hour or so on our own. I was glad to have someone with me so I wasn't just sitting there by my lonesome. We meandered about and made our way back to Timbucktu and the arcade area. Rode the merry-go-round (hey, I love those things) and played "Dance Dance Revolution" which is a really silly game where you have to match up the on-screen beat with your feet. Man was it silly. (but fun) I actually did better then Joolo and he owns the Playstation version at home! *lol*
After that, we met back up with the group and did some bumper cars. Such simple things. *giggles* The group did a few more coasters and we all wandered about. I tried taking some pics of the evening, but I don't think many came out since it was really dark in there. All the animal exhibits where closed, but the rides were open. The funny thing is that it's Busch Gardens, right? They've got a beer factory literally on the property. But, it's a "celebrate safe" night and there's NO alcohol allowed. Silly, ne? The problem was that it was FREEZING cold. I was only in a 3/4 length shirt and my jacket (which isn't really made for super, super cold). Well, it got more then cold enough to see your breath and the wind was just nasty. It got down to about 40 or so (that's damned cold for Florida). By the end of the night, my poor Love ended up taking off his jacket (a thick and heavy true winter coat) and put it on over mine. Once I get cold, I'm just cold and that's all there is to it. Sucks. Yesterday, my chest hurt and my voice was all cracky from the cold, but I'm better today.
To finish the evening, we had fireworks at midnight. It was a lot of fun and I can't thank Rand's mom enough for not only inviting us, but paying for everyone's ticket. She's such a sweetie. I did manage to get some shots of us as a group that I'll upload from his camera as soon as he brings me the cable. (he left the cam at my house but the cable at his)
New Year's Day
By the time I got to bed it was about 4am on the 1st and I slept dead until about 11:30am. For some reason though, I just felt like I had gotten zero sleep and kept dozing off during the day. We ran some errands and I was going to go over to Rand's to get the photos (from hockey and new years) but I just didn't have the energy. By 7pm I was ready to call it a night.
Back to Work I Go
So, that about wraps up lunch. I'm at work today and I'm really still a bit out of it. (amazing how I got so tired and I didn't even drink or anything!) Joolo's coming over tonight apparently and my Love's already asked him to bring his version of Dance Dance Revolution since not only am I supposed to be doing this again, but my Love wants to try it himself. I'm hoping to get the cable from Rand tonight also, and if so, I'll get the photos uploaded to my pc tonight, format them, save 'em on disk and bring them with me to work tomorrow for an update. *sheesh, it's so much work. I want internet at home!!*
Oh, by the way, I made an update to the site - specifically the "Webmistress" section to finally include some of my pics AND a small gallery of new webcam shots. New! New! New! :)
Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year!
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
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