Monday June 27, 2010

Pictures are from Egmont Key

We got up, worked out, ate our free breakfast, went to the beach. No dolphin sightings today. Ate lunch at sloppy Joes. Yummy. Drove to Ft de soto because I wanted to go up in the lighthouse. I love lighthouses. Well u have to take the ferry over which only runs a few tines and we missed it. So were coming back tomorrow. We walked over to the pier and we saw lots of ppl fishing and saw lots if dolphins. I love watching dolphins. We went over to the fort and walked around that. Forts amaze us. We left there and just wanted to drive over the skyway bridge. And we ended up in Bradenton. I text Shannon to say hi since we were in her neighborhood. I might see her tomorrow to give her a bag to ship home for us. That beats the heck out of paying $15 for shipping. We then drove back to the hotel to rest. After some r & r, we played putt putt at smugglers cove. I always have to play putt putt when I go to Florida. It's something my family always did together, so I still like to go. Smugglers cove was so fun. It was the Florida-golf that I like. Only bad part was that Danny beat me in putt putt for the first time! After that we ate dinner at crabby bills. It was good. We ate at 9:30. So were going to have to get our Indiana times back on track.

We took a ferry boat over to Egmont key. They drop you off for what felt like hours. And it seemed like we were on Lost. It was a town on it's own island. Noone lives on it now, and cars cannot get to it.

Sunday June 27th, 2010

Feeding the alligators

Skyway Bridge

We survived interstate 666

St Pete Pier

Sunday June 27th, 2010 I forgot to tell u before, we got suckered into the least expensive insurance plan for our rental car. She acted like we had to have it. But I think that stuff is covered under our insurance. So, note to self. Just say no.

Sunday, we got up and ate at our free breakfast. Then we went to the fitness center. I am always better at working out on vacation. I guess because they have nice equipment, anything to choose from. I'm sure the tv on the wall helps too. :). From there, we headed over to the beach. The beach is just across the street. The water is so warm, so I actually got in. I almost yelled shark, but realized sharks don't swim very happily and graceful. So we realized real fast that there were dolphins swimming right in front of us!!!! I darted out of the water and got my camera. Danny was probably 20 feet from them. I saw 3 at one time, but we were guessing that there was atleast 5 of them, maybe more. Notice Danny's new friends in the picture. I say his new friends, because I'm not the sociable one. Danny's new friends told us that the morning is feeding time for them. And they will come right up to you. So were going out there earlier tomorrow morning. ;) We also saw a crab come right up to us, I did not enjoy that though. Haha I was obviously backing up, those suckers run fast!

We headed in around noon to shower. Well, it's Sunday, so we had to eat lunch at Mcdonalds because it's . 49 hamburgers. From there we drove across land to the St Pete Pier. Which was not what we expected. I guess I was expecting lots to do and lots of shopping. We went into this mini aquarium. Left there and drove to the north west coast, and started at honeymoon island. We were two honeymooners on honeymoon island;). After that, we just drove south along the coastline; Clearwater, Indian rocks, Indian shores, reddington, madiera, and then back home to treasure island. Clearwater, had am awesome kids playground. Right on the beach. But we didnt stop because we dont have kids, lol. That could have been weird. Maybe next year. ;) we stopped by the hotel and then headed to dinner. We ate at cici's pizza. Danny loves that place. They closed the one near us, so we decided to go to this one. Normally we like to eat at only local resturaunts, and not places we've heard of, but cici's is our exception...oh and mc'y d's. We drove as far south as we could until the road stopped. So we were in St Pete and decided to get out the fishing poles. We didn't have any luck, except the huge rock that ate the end of my line. There was a pelican that hung out by this guy and never left. He would get scared and fly around but always came right back by this guys side.

Dana

Saturday June 26, 2010-Treasure Island

Here's an old vacation we went on. I'm trying to catch up on my blogging, and this blog had been started, so now I'm finishing it. :)

Saturday June 26, 2010 We got up at 2am to catch our 5:26 flight. Yes, I said 2am. We left our house at about 3am. We got to the airport around 3:40. One of the security officers told us that the ticket counters open at 4:20. Are you kidding me!!!??? Then why do the they recommend you getting to the airport 2 hours prior to your departure time!? As you can see, we were probably the first ones at the airport. We arrived in Tampa, Florida around 9:20am. We picked up our rental car, which is a pontianc g6. I thought that was funny because that is the kind of car I just traded in. This g6 is nicer than mine was though. We then drove to see Danny's aunts family. We had a good time. Everyone came over except danny's sister. It was good to see everyone and finally get to see their new babies. Danny's uncle loaded our car up with some fishing equipment. I'm back in Tampa, so it's time to go shark fishing again. Maybe this time Danny will catch a shark. We left their house around 2 and headed to our hotel. When we arrive at our hotel, I'm always leary about how they look. We book them online, and were not ever sure how they are going to look. We are very happy with this hotel. I love the decorations, and they have free breakfast! The view from our room is overlooking the Tampa Bay Marina. So, we might just fish off of that. Oh, I have to tell you...on our way to Danny's aunts, we were starving, so we stopped and ate lunch at McDonalds. So Now it's like 6 hours later and were starving again. Guess what is within walking distance of out hotel. Mcdonalds. So, that Is what we had for something to hold us over till dinner. At some point in the day, I noticed my phone was dying. So, once we got into the room, I plugged my phone in. Each time we went back to our room I checked on it. It didn't seem like it was charging. So after that second trip to Mcds, I asked a worker at the front desk where the nearest AT&T store was. He said it was at a mall about 15 minutes away. So we headed over there. Well the guy told me it was probably my battery and that I have to go to an Apple store. Wondeful!!! So we pulled up directions on the gps, and we started to head out there. I called to make sure they would be open till 9. It's probably 6:30 at this point. They said they were open till 9 and that I had to make an appointment. The only time they had available was 8:20. So I took it of course. We were headed out there, so we said we would stop and eat dinner. Not mcdonalds this time, haha. The Apple store was at their mall. I guess it was kinda like our fashion mall. It had all the high end stores; Louise vuitton, Kate spade, saks fifth ave., etc. So obviously I was only window shopping. This mall was amazing!!! I don't know how many times we got lost. It was huge. The resturaunt we ate at was outside. They had this one section of the mall that was like a city in Italy. We ate at a sub shop called something like "Earl of subs." It was the best sub I have had in my life! So tell me if you ever see one. We got to the apple store around 8pm. I was 20 minutes early, but she said early is always better. My appointment was for 8:20. They finally called for me at 8:40! If you have never been to an apple store, let me just tell you... They are always packed, and loud. There is nothing under $200. Unless you want to buy a laptop bag for your $1500 computer that is going to last just as long as my $300 toshiba. :) so I was stuck in this store and I can't afford anything in it. Except and arm band for my iPhone, which they didn't even have. Anyways, back to my story. I guess iPhone batteries only last like 8 months. Since I have had my phone for under 1 year, it still has warranty. So they had to replace my entire phone. I haven't backed up my phone for about 3 days. So whatever I did the past three days, it has been deleted. I also can't get any of the back up info, until I sync my phone to my computer, which is at home. So I also do not have anyones phone numbers. I want to call Chrissy to make sure she's not going into labor, but she would call me. So after we drove all over central Florida, I finally got a phone that I can use. And I needed ice cream to calm me. There are 2 ice cream parlars next to our hotel. Well, they were both closed! We were at apple for so long, that it was now 10:15. Guess what is open late! Mcdonalds. We went to mcdonalds for the third time. That's my record. I got the rescees mcflurry. It's yummy. We then went back to our room. We had been up since 2am. This was one long day.

Proposal Anniversary

On Wednesday, June 30th, it was 2 years ago that Danny's proposed to me in Las Vegas. Our lives changed from that point on. Look at how far we've come. That following May, we bought our first home. And this is the first "house" that Danny has ever lived in. So, his life has definately turned around. Then, after 15 months of planning, we got married, September 12, 2009.

On June 30th, 2009, our lives changed for the better. I'm the happiest I've ever been. But I can't speak for him, haha.

Happy Proposal Anniversary to us.