March 6th, 2009 weekend

Friday, PJ had a little out-patient surgury. (Trust me, you don't want to hear the details!!) For the most part, i've been keeping him doped up on pain meds - and he just sleeps alot.

Raymond and David bought the old 'Studz' bar effective last Thursday. Beer and wine - yuck!
The "bear Hunt' event is on March 27th and I get to sell beer from a tub! Exciting - I'll be sure to take some pictures.

Bowling Tournament 02/06/2009

Last weekend, we all went over to Tampa for the Gagme Bowling Tournament. PJ, Raymond, Dennis and I were a team; Raymond and I played doubles. My doubles set was the best overall (179, 180,167). The hotel where we stayed was the same one as last year, but we had a much better view this time around:

It was a very nice weekend.

Christmas - December 2008

Well, Christmas is over for this year. Time to pack everything up and stow it away till next year...

This was a very nice Holiday. Tuesday night (12/23), Raymond, Robby, PJ and I went up to Wylde's for our celebration.

PJ's family came down Christmas Eve for dinner. I made (don't tell Lara) the turkey I made for Thanksgiving with all the fixings. It turned out damn good!

Christmas morning, we got up, had some Mimosas and heard a knock on the door - Mom and Joe came up for a 'suprise' visit!! Unfortunately, there was no food in the house - so we went to TooJay's and then went down and saw the ICE exhibit at Gaylord Palms.

Tomorrow, we are headed off to celebrate New Year's at the campground. I'll come back with some interesting stories and pictures! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

GO GATORS!!

Can't wait to see the GATORS play for the National Championship game on 01/08/09!!

Cruise to the Bahamas - Nov 21st.

Pj and I went on a cruise last weekend. We went to Nassau, Bahamas and Coco Cay (private island of RCL's).

There were some other people that went with us, Tim and Kenny, David and Dennis and some others.

We left Friday around 5pm, all of us were on the top deck - and DAMN was it COLD! Once we got out to sea, it was nice. Good thing we packed a sweatshirt. We brought some of our own liquor (shhhhh).

Saturday morning, we arrived in Nassau. We went right over to the Hilton and hung out on their beach - and just stayed there for most of the day.

Satuday night we had a nice dinner, PJ and the group went to see a show, and Kenny and I headed to the Casino. (Friday night I lost $20, Saturday won $195, Sunday lost $50 - on Blackjack).

Sunday we were supposed to go to Coco-Cay - but the seas were too rough and we could not tender. So, we stayed on the boat all day. We played Bingo, PJ won $120.

We got home Monday morning. It was a very nice trip.

End of the summer...already???...

Last Saturday we had our 'End of the Summer' party. It was a good time. We cleaned out the cabinets of all of the fun summer stuff we wanted to get rid of (food, cups, liquor). People brough over some awesome food and snacks (the brownies Robby and Robert brought over were awesome!!)

I was a beautiful day - never rained, sun was shining; couldn't ask for anything better!

Well, it got to be that time and I started lighting up the grill. Now normally, I cook hotdogs and sausage first - kind of gets the grill all nice and primed. Well, I started lying down the burgers and by the time I had them all down - the first ones I put down were really smoking. I closed the cover and opened it a few minutes later - it was BAD! The entire thing was a flame! I looked over at PJ and said "I need help". First thing we did was to move it away from the house (good thinking). Well, we moved it over and it fell off of the deck and onto its side - still a ball of flame. I started getting real worried about the entire propane tank underneath that had flames brushing up against the side. We got out the hose and they sprayed it enough so I could turn the gas off - which was enough to let the fire be sprayed out.

Needless to say, we didn't have burgers. Right after this is done, Paul screams out "If you didn't want to cook Scott, all you had to do was say so!" Thankfully there was enough food to go around without the burgers - special thanks to RJ's mom for cooking all of that spaghetti!!!

Anyway, the summer is over and we start bowling again on Saturday's starting this week.

Southern Decadence in New Orleans vs. GUSTAV

This was our hotel in New Orleans - well, for one night NOT four!

Friday, we flew to New Orleans and arrived at 12:30pm. We took a cab to the airport, when we got there the rooms weren't ready, so we dropped off our luggage and went out to find a bar (you can drink on the streets if it is in a plastic cup).

We went into a few places, had a few drinks. Walked around and mingled, drank some.
We got back to the hotel later that afternoon and got all checked in and went across the street to a little bar and got some food and more drinks at Tropical Isle (Robert liked the drinks there).

We went back to the room for a disco nap and woke to the front desk calling to say that we need to check out Saturday morning by 8am, and that the hotel would be sealed at noon. The French Quarter in New Orleans was being evacuated.

We changed out flights departing out and said, "let's go out"; nothing better to do, right? We all got dressed and went out, of course stopping at Tropical Isle for a walking drink...

The next morning we packed up and started to head out.

Damn storms!!