Last night was a lot of fun. Around 6pm, met up with Jeff at Cam & Melissa’s for an evening of sinful debauchery. Okay, it was more like ate chips, pizza, ice-cream and watched movies. 🙂 Lots of fun nonetheless. Tonight will see me heading up to near where Jeff lives for a little post-season Ultimate practice with several folks from the various teams during the regular season. This is pretty neat, since we all just met each other, really.
Anyhow I wanted to post a few more pics from Wednesday night/Thursday morning when I dropped folks off at the airport.

Trying to look mean, haha! This shot looks kind of funny compared to the photo below because I’ve tried to compensate for it being wildly out of focus via Photoshop magic (for the technically inclined, it’s a 200%, 1-pixel wide unsharp-mask). For your comparison, here’s the blurry, un-Photoshopped original.

Dad: Don’t move a muscle!

On the road to drop Neil Mom and Dad off for their flight on Thursday morning. That’s the Sunshine Skyway bridge coming up.

Going up!

At the top.

Going down.

A great shot of the rest of the bridge over the Tampa Bay area.

Signing in.

Well, just got back from dropping Mom, Dad & Neil off at the airport!
Whew, what a week! Here’s the executive summary:
Thursday (a week ago), the Ultimate Frisbee team I play on won the championship in the finals! I won an ultrasnazzy visor! Now I can go to raves! Hehe.. Jeff, Cam, Melissa, Mom, Dad and Neil all came to watch! Have a look-see in the gallery. Friday night, Jeff and Ron from work hung out with Cam, Melissa and I poolside. We drank, ate pizza and generally stayed up way too late. Which made getting up in time to leave for the Kennedy Space Center kinda difficult. But we definitely made it! I snapped a few pics, I think you like ’em. KSC was practically our entire Saturday. In fact, I was so tired when we got back home, I fell asleep with all my clothes on, and it was only 11pm.
But hitting the hay early would make it easier to get up in time for the apartment-complex-sponsored social, “Breakfast by the Pool”. It was very cool — they made omlettes to order, had tea, juice and sweets, and set up a volleyball net across the pool, which Dad, Neil, Cam, Melissa and I prompted started using. Two lessons learned that day: (1) it’s much easier to see underwater during the day, and (2) just because you’re not at the beach doesn’t mean you won’t burn! Dad probably took it the hardest – he burned already burnt skin! Ah, the joys of being partially non-caucasian. 🙂 Watched the sunset that night down at Lido Key on a tip from Cam and Melissa. Hope to have something up from that for you guys soon, it was pretty incredible.
Monday and Tuesday were movie nights, and we watched two Wes Anderson films, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore respectively. This was the second time around for Rushmore, and I’ve gotta say, I like it more now than when I first saw it. Royal…, whose tagline is “‘Family’ isn’t a word…. it’s a sentence” remains as quirky as ever. But I like it. Although the actual events of the movie are pretty far-fetched, the underlying message of the movie — love your family — is a good one. And while they’re both laugh-out-loud funny at times, Rushmore is definitely the more accessible of the two.
And finally, last night, we all hit the pool one last time and capped the night off with a most pleasant banana-split at Cam & Melissa’s (thanks guys!).
My apartment lease expires today. I’ve been trying to get a hold of my landlord for the past three days to re-sign it, but each time I call she’s been too busy to talk. Today I found out why — they’ve got 17 move-in’s tomorrow! My concerns about being in the apartment without a lease were kind of put to ease. I asked “So, it’s okay for me to be in the apartment without a lease?” “Yes, it’s our fault, don’t worry about it.” Me: “Okay.” Not sure what kind of rights I have, though, if any. Or if I should even pay rent tomorrow, for that matter. Hmmm!
Anyhow, it’s been a real busy, but fun, week. Looking forward to getting some more of these pics up for ya. 🙂
And now, we dance!
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