Wow, almost 2 whole months since I last updated this. Sorry about that. I my defense, my computer had a virus for about a month from March to April. So I couldn't really get on the internet. But its all fixed now so I'll try to get this up and running again. I'll try to get you updated on what has gone on in the last 2 months in a couple of paragraphs. We'll see how I do.
Well, March 15 was my birthday. So I went out with a couple of my coworkers and proceeded to completely embarrass myself. Its cool though, I'm over it. Make fun all you want, I've put it behind me ;)
I went up to visit Grandma in Myrtle Beach the next weekend. That was really fun. We went to a couple of shows and a brass quintet concert. It really made me miss my bands. You can't really dabble in french horn in a hotel room though, so I'm out of luck. Plus I'm sure my instrument is in a horrible state of disrepair by this point. It would probably cost a bunch of money to get the valves working again :(
The weekend after that we moved down South of Tampa. I can't remember if there was anything of particular note to say about that two weeks. I went to the beach one day and got the worst sunburn of my life. Parts of my are still a bit red from it. It was in the middle of the work week too, so I had to carry my backpack around for days with a terrible sunburn on my shoulders and back and everyone was making fun of me. (I work with a bunch of jerks if you can't tell) Later that weekend I went parasailing with Kazi. It was cool but boring at the same time. It was cool to be up there, but there was really nothing to do while you were up there, so it was kinda boring. I did see a hammerhead shark though, so that was cool. Then we ate at a restaurant right on the beach a couple of times. That was cool because you were sitting outside just looking at the ocean.
To start the next session of work we had to leave our hotel on a Monday morning at 6am. We all drove our individual cars out to the site in order to dig about 4 shovel tests in a field. Then we all went out for breakfast at IHOP. Then we headed on to our new hotel in Port Richey, which is a bit north of Tampa.
During that session I went home for the Varsity Band Concert in Madison. It was awesome! I got to see almost all of my college friends who I hadn't seen in about 6 months at that point. I also got to see my high school friends because they came down on Friday night and we hit up the town. Then Jen came up from Chicago with some of her friends so it was a really fun night. Then on Saturday my parents came down and I went to the concert with my mom. It was awesome as usual and less sad this year not to be in it. Sunday I went out to lunch with my parents and then hung out with college friends for the rest of the day. We went to the Quaker Steak and Lube for dinner. It was amazingly awesome. We had strawberry Lube-N-Ade and wings with lube sauce. Amazingly corny :P Then Monday I had to come back to Florida.
I only worked for 1 day and then it was our weekend off. My friend Carrie came up from the coast guard base that she is stationed at and we went to Busch Gardens on Thursday. It was really fun. We rode most of the roller coasters and then I excavated some Egyptian artifacts. On Sunday I went out with Kazi and we went jetskiing on the Gulf. It was amazing!!! So much fun! I still can't get over it. It was like getting to ride a motorcycle, but with less chance of getting hurt because if you fall off you just land in the water. I would love to go again before I leave Florida, so we'll see. Then later that night we went and played some mini golf. I have to hunt down those pics, but it wasn't my best night. I lost my ball in a pond on the first hole and had to go back to the office to get a new one. Then it kept getting stuck other places that put me in ridiculous positions for mean people to take photos of me.
And I think that takes us up to this week. So I will try to get the picture links on here and get this weeks update on here tomorrow. Good night!
