Day 91 ~ LAND!!!! Day 1 of Florida

We left the appartment last night at exactly 12:05 A.M  Dumb idea?  Maybe, but we made it here to Florida in one pieceand after 16 hours of switching off driving duty and several pit stops....

We finally made it to palm tree land (that's what I'm calling it)  Oh how I love the palm trees!  I want to hook one up to the top of the car like a Christmas tree and bring it home!  We have a gorgeous one right out of our awesome hotel window and I promised my sister I would take a picture!

This was three hours before when I was so excited to see the Florida state line because I knew it meant the promise of wonderful 80 degree weather and only three hours left to be stuck in the car! Makes me want oranges and orange juice seeing all the orange things around here!
Today's high temperature once we hit Florida was 86 degrees! Daytona Beach tomorrow :) Can't wait!

As of today, the shuttle launch has been postponed until Wednesday, it was supposed to be on Monday, so I'm really keeping fingers crossed they take care of whatever is making them push it back and they don't have to postpone it anymore!

Day 90 ~ "One big ugly eye looking for ME"

or in this case... two, but thats a quote from land before time so I couldn't resist!

I think my brother and his girlfriend were drawing on my family's windows!  I only think this doesn't scream something Andrew would do, but the other drawing on the other window said "Andrew did this!" Its kinda creepy now that I'm writing about it lol

Day 89 ~ Changing into Fall...

I took the little ones on a walk and we decided to look for leaves that were changing colors... Joel found a whole bunch of things he picked up too!  He, Kateri, and Sofia both carried handfuls of leaves all the way home :)

Day 88 ~ Tiny?

This is Tiny Twanda... I <3 her :)  She lives at the pet store that we go to get our hermit crabby supplies!  We hadn't been there since we first needed stuff for them, so we went tonight to get them new shells and coconut for their cage.  Isn't she awesome!

Day 87 ~ Let the packing and planning begin!

Today I started making my list for our trip to Florida!  We leave Friday night at midnight, 3 days to go!  First stop on the list... make sure I have pretty things to wear... and in this case new things to wear since it's a big trip in which lots of pictures will be taken :)  That meant a trip to my beloved thrift store was in order!  I need 6 shirts... two of which have already been provided by hand me down clothes from Jamie and Anna (They've been passing down bags of clothes to me and my sister for years now and we go through them together to claim things.)  My trip was successful in that everything I brought home fit (which doesn't always happen sincethere's no dressing room and I just have to guess) and I found two more shirts to add to the collection... here's what I have so far, only have to find two more!  Total cost of new vacation wardrobe thus far: $6

Day 86 ~ Speak Now! The most epic of all days!

After almost 2 long years of waiting..... it's TODAY!!  It's finally here!  Taylor Swift has done it again... a most excellent 3 album, initiated into my sisters and my collection of most important CDs on this Monday, the 25th day of October in the year 2010.  Even though spoilers were released to i-tunes over the last few weeks, we remained loyal and didn't listen... after work today, we went out and bought our own copy, added the label to my collection of CD labels in my car and listened to every song all the way through, not passing judgement until the last one had finished.  Our verdict: Epic!!! Not one song we don't like!  Well worth the wait!

Funny story:  We went to Walmart... their cardboard thing said it would be available there today, like we knew the release date was.  We couldn't find it!  Anywhwere!  We finally asked and they said the release date was Tuesday and perhaps today was just the "internet" release date.  We knew better!  So Target made our money this time :) I bet our Walmart lost out on a lot of money today from those who were as determined as we were to have it release day, especially considering my friend in Frostburg got hers at her Walmart this morning at 6:30 A.M.!

Day 85 ~ 1615 Oleander Avenue

My Grandma Julie (my dad's mom) passed away last year right before my wedding... we've always gone down to visit her and my dad's family, which is where we were yesterday in Virginia Beach.  With a four plus hour drive, it was always a relief  to pull into Oleander Avenue and get to see everyone! And as we would pull away after our visit, we would exchange the "I love you" sign in sign language until my Grandmas Julie couldn't see us anymore.  It's a past time I will never forget and now it looks like the house is going to be put up for sale by the end of this year so I wanted a picture of her house.  Seeing as it was a year and a half in between the last time we went down there and this weekend, I wanted to make sure I had a picture memory just in case it's not her house anymore the next time we go to visit the rest of my dad's family!