It's a Small World After All

That title is true in more ways than one...
This weekend was amazing. So good. Calyn and I drove down to Orlando to visit Carli and ended up seeing so many awesome people. It was such a great trip. It started off with an ironic Friday. Calyn and I had planned to meet after our classes that both got out at 2:15 so that we could walk together and then each drive separately to her house and then leave from there to go to Orlando. Well, my class got cancelled and I didn't know, so I left work a half-hour early to run home and do the assignment I forgot about (see last post :-)) then I jumped in the car, got about three miles from my house and decided to check my messages on my phone. Amanda had left me a message that said "I'm not sure if you checked Blackboard and you already know this, but speech was cancelled today." Man, am I glad I didn't wait until I got to school to call my voicemail. So I turned around and went home. I tried to get a hold of Calyn to tell her, but she was going to class and I guess her phone was off, so I left a message. At about 2:17, Calyn calls me and says "Please tell me you're at school." Well, I broke the news to her and then she told me that her mom had dropped her off and she was just gonna ride home with me. So, I drove down to campus and met her sitting at the corner of Tennessee and Old Bainbridge ("I was gonna walk farther, but then I thought about how I'd be going through Frenchtown and decided not to." Good choice.) So we ran a "few" errands and finally left town at 4:45. We had a fun-filled 4 hour car ride to Orlando...

Yay! We're going to see Carli!


Tuna salad kit...in a vending machine...for $2.50...weird.


"YOU ARE HERE"


Uh-oh!


Sing it Sister Calyn!

So we finally got there at like 9:15 after missing the exit and a visit to the sketchy Taco Bell. We talked and caught up, took a tour of the UCF campus, and got Slurpees. Okay, most of ya'll probably don't know what a Slurpee is because we don't have 7-11s in Tallahassee, but they are like Icees but better. When I lived in Boynton we always got Slurpees on Tuesdays after my dad picked us up from school and I hadn't had a real Slurpee in over 5 years, so it made me happy. We also laid out on the sidewalk and looked at stars and took some fun pictures:


Me and Carli with our "fat kid" Slurpees


Calyn!


Us under the rec flag from camp


Calyn with the Ukrainian flag

The next day, Chaz met us at Carli's and we went to Carli's house (not the house she lives in during the year, her parent's house) in Eustis, about 30 minutes away. Carli's house is gorgeous! She lives on a lake and everything. We ate lunch and then Nicole and Trisha (because Nicole was visiting Trisha in Tampa) came to hang out with us for the afternoon. We went out on the boat and it was a beautiful day. We went tubing and Carli's little brother Corbin drove and tried to kill people on the tube (not really, but it was funny). My watch is now at the bottom of the lake because I forgot I had it on and didn't wanted to get it wet, so I was on the tube and Chaz told me to throw it to him on the boat and I tried but it didn't quite make it. It fell in the water and Chaz jumped in to try to save it while Corbin just pointed at it and screamed "It's goin' down!" over and over as it sunk. But, despite Chaz's noble efforts, the fish will now know what time it is. Oh well, it was only 7 bucks. So we had a great afternoon on the lake. I'll put up pictures of that whenever Carli puts them on her photobucket. :-)
Nicole and Trisha left and we went back to Orlando and took showers and had some down time. We were all getting really tired and we were waiting for Arielle and Dorothy to come to go out to eat, but it was getting late. Me, Calyn and Carli went over to Chaz's apartment for a bit and watched FSU get their butt kicked by Virginia for a while, and then we headed over to Chili's. Arielle and Dorothy met us there and we finally got our food around 10 or something. It was late. Then Dwayne showed up and dinner got crazy and we were all laughing sooooo hard. Oh, it was great.


Calyn and Carli: what hotties!


Carli and I making faces :-P


Calyn and Chaz


Me and Calyn


Chaz

After dinner we went back to Chaz's to hang out for a while. We were pretty much just entertained by Dwayne and his stories and we talked and hung out. Great quality time, you know.


Calyn and Dwayne


Calyn, Carli, and Me


Dorothy, Arielle, and Dwayne


Dwayne, Me, Arielle, and Carli


Dwayne leaping onto the couch (yes, he's in mid-air)


All of us: Chaz, Calyn, Dwayne, Carli, Me, Arielle, Dorothy

Today we had to leave, so us girls woke up at the crack of 11:15 and went to Subway where Chaz works to say goodbye. Dwayne had already left because he got sick or something. I don't know, it was kinda weird. It was sad to leave, because I love hanging out with such awesome people. I wish we all lived closer. Well, I really should get back to studying, so, I'll leave you with some pictures of the drive home:






Yay! I-10! No more tolls!


Calyn is so very tired.

Oh, I almost forgot. It's a small world. The connections between the people I hung out with this weekend were just crazy. Trisha, Chaz, Arielle, Dorothy, and Dwayne all go/went to the same church in Tampa, but Chaz moved to UCF where he met Carli in a campus ministry and they found out that they had both gone to Radoog on the same year, but different weeks. Calyn knows everyone from Ukraine, but from different years. Arielle and Dorothy are sisters and Arielle dated Chaz at one point. Trisha and Nicole have been talking on the phone because they knew each other through Calyn and they just met when Nicole went to visit Trisha this weekend. I just keep meeting everyone through Carli and Calyn. It's so weird. Oh, and the song was also in a skit me and Calyn did tonight, but we're not gonna dwell on that. Okay, now that I've written a freakin' novel, I'm gonna go.