Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Florida (Jan - April)

So far my year (this is Annie writing this post) has been very good. I spent the past 4 months living in singer island, Florida with Grammy and Pop Barber. We spent most days at the beach and in the evenings I would go to work as a waitress at the Bonefish Grill.
We had many visitors at the condo this spring. Two of my good girlfriends, Melissa Kirwin and Tia Dinger, were a able to make it down during their spring breaks. Melissa and I saw Wayne Brady at the comedy club. Tia and I spent an exciting day down in South Beach, Miami. Other visitors we had were Dick and Maxine Carlson, Uncle Bob,cousins Charlie, Sarah, and Jenn and Jessica also made it over a couple times.  At one point we had 8 people sleeping in the condo.
I was able to make a few trips over to Marco island to visit Grammy Gayle and Pop Larry. While with them we drove up to Bradenton to watch dad at the Pittsburgh Pirates fantasy baseball camp. His team lost in the championship game this year. During another visit to Marco I was able to spend time with Aunt Amy and my two cousins Max and Ben from Colorado.
During a kayak trip in Marco with jess and aunt ruth, we paddled out to an island and ended up finding 80 whole sanddollars. I found about 45 myself... I'm still a good potter :)
Jessica and I spent Easter in Marco with Aunt Ruth and her sister Shirl. We went to sunrise service on the beach then dinner and an egg hunt at Shirl's.
After leaving Marco, Jess and I headed north to Orlando. We stayed with our extended family, Chuck and Judy Griffin. We decided they are our 4thish cousins on Pop Larry's side. We stayed with them for 3 nights. They took us out for gator on our last night.
While in Orlando we were able to meet up with Jessica's friend Chris from Ireland. He is working at Disney World for the year so he was able to get us free passes into Epcot for the day. We met back up with Chris when he was done working and went back to The Commons where he lives with all the other foreign workers from Disney. We
Spent the evening hanging out "where the air is crisp" with Chris and a few of his buddies from Ireland, the UK, and Italy.




1 comment:

  1. love the pics but whats the circular things in the last picture?

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