On the Road Again

We went to Orlando last weekend to see Michael's parents and his sister. She's moved into a new condo which she purchased on May 4th and it's pretty cute. Michael and I took Friday off and drove down early so we could eat lunch with them and Debra was coming to meet us after she finished her clinical. It was a nice lunch and it was great catching up with Debra who I felt like I haven't seen in awhile. Then on Saturday we went down to a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game in St. Pete. The game itself was fun but the cops in St. Pete are horrible at directing traffic. Let's just say a trained group of lab rats would have done a better job with the traffic control. I pulled out into the intersection on purpose because that was the only way I was getting through that area within the hour. And as the woman officer approached my window, all 4 New Yorkers in my car started yelling at her... to which point I didn't even roll down my window because we probably would have been arrested right then. Being in a car with 4 screaming New Yorkers is like being in a room of 50 kids; very loud. Anyway...... overall we had a great time at the ball game and it was weird being in a closed dome for a baseball game. Then on Sunday we went to lunch for Mr. S birthday; which was nice. You know us kids, we tried to pick up the bill for him but he wouldn't hear of it... :)))

Anyway, enough yapping here are pictures of 3.4 pound Charlie, Dawn's dog. He's so sweet and he was cracking me up all weekend while we played. He's so low to the ground he drags his butt when he runs... its the funniest thing ever.

I just love this picture of him with his tongue sticking out.

Such a sweet sweet face...

He's looking to pounce me because I have his toy but he's too little to jump off the couch...hahah poor Charlie

Dorothy trying to get us to tell her what's in her present before she opens it... ummm if you would just stop asking and start opening you'd find out sooner.... :)))) That woman is so funny, I just love her!

The Tampa Bay Rays stadium.... Tropicana Field (as if you couldn't tell from the giant green neon sign)

I just love a man in uniform....

STTTTTRRRRIKE 1...

Each player walks out to a song when they approach home plate, most are rap or pop songs. But not this guy Gabe Gross.... he came out to a Christian song which I thought was so cool. You go boy!

After our weekend with his family we went to Megan's to see her new apartment where she and Debra are shacking up for the next 8 weeks. Megan lives close to the Bee Line Expressway/528, so Michael and I feeling adventurous and not wanting to go all the way back down I-4 took 528 to 407, to I 95 N home which really worked out to be 170 miles or 2 1/2 hours so it wasn't bad. We probably could have made it home sooner but we got stuck in the Sunday night monsoon that started off our last 5 days of rain. Here are pictures from that trip home....why I took them I'm not totally sure. I probably had a good reason at the time but can't remember what it is now.... other than I was bored and I'm trying to figure out what 'aperture' and 'ISO' means on my camera and how to use the settings.... Yeah that's it - that's why I took this boring picture.