The Family Visit

Last Thursday night Mom, Dad, and Lil drove down to Winter Haven to see me. It was a lot of fun having them here. Unfortunatly they brought the cold weather with them! But the warm is back now. Julie and I spent our break time on the Lazy River that opened up today.
Mom and Dad only stayed two full days but Lil stayed for part of her spring break. Our roomate Jere had his 26th birthday and we all went to Orlando to the "European Cafe Gourmet Bistro McDonalds" which is about as plush as McDonalds can get. We spent Monday at Cocoa Beach on Cape Canaveral. I tried to get us in to the Kennedy Space Center but apparently you have to pay and y'know go during the day time. Lil was here for American Idol night too... which is a little crazy at our apartment. Result night was yesterday. America proves yet again to be utterly inept at making any good decisions.
I only have two (and a half) more weeks here and I'm starting to panic a bit on what I'm going to do when I get home. But I'm not letting it interupt my planning of our mini-vacation to Keys.
Cherrios.

Finally an Update

So Dad has been pestering me to blog but I'm afraid I've gotten too far behind to actually catch up properly. This week has been full of excitement starting off with a 13 year old boy falling off a roller coaster at Cypress Gardens. Apparently there was NO malfunction of the ride itself (as made very clear in our near 2 hour whole-park meeting that almost made some very irate performers miss American Idol. The boy stood up on the Triple Hurricane (dared by his brother) and fell 10-12 feet on the last turn, hitting the tracks, and winding up on the hard surface below. His family has declined to issue a statement on his well being so all we know is: he WAS in critical condition and he IS NOT (as of now) dead. It happened last Saturday but we got all our information from the news. We were told as we left the park that day to say "no comment" to any reporters roaming the employee parking.

Julie, Brian K. and I spent our day off auditioning for an internship with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. I learned two new monologues for the occasion. The facilities were really nice and I would honestly be tempted to accept something like that.. but they didn't seem overly interested. It's good to be auditioning again... I've been feeling sort of out of the loop. After our audition we headed down to Universal's City Walk for some recreation. We ended up dancing in Margaritaville with children and 40 year olds alike. It was a good time.

Thursday night we all made the trip to Oralndo again to see some of my friends from Shorter who were down for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. We all met up at Downtown Disney. Unfortunately we didn't get there until about 10 pm and Jen and Co. were waking up early for the next day at Disney World so it was a short visit. So we wound up spending most of the night with our usual housemate group.

The weather has been really nice lately and Julie and I have gotten into the habit of going to the pool in the mornings. I've only gotten in once. The water is still FREEZING. Still having fun in the sun. Adios!