Florida Fun

This past week was spent down in Florida with my mom, aunt, and sister. We went everywhere in Orlando that was related to Disney; Epcot, MGM, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, my sister even did a ride-along in a Nascar-car at this speedway thing. The trip started off really sweet with the airport. We were scheduled on a direct flight from MSP to Orlando, and right before they announced people to board, they asked if anyone would volunteer to be bumped. My sister looked into this prospect and found out that we would each get a $300 voucher for the airline if we took a flight that would head to Memphis then to Orlando, getting us there 2 hours later. We had nothing planned for that day, so we went ahead and did that. I'll have to use it within a year, so I've been trying to figure out where to use the voucher for ever since.

The rest of the trip went well, we ended it in St. Petersburg and Tampa on the last 2 days, yesterday involving my sister and I parasailing 800 feet above the Gulf of Mexico. This is actually my favorite picture out of the whole trip. It's my mom and aunt taking off for their 600' parasail right before my sis and I went up:

So today I woke up to a 40 degree "warm" temperature for this region feeling especially depressed noticing that the last time I experienced salt, it was as the sea spray while on the boat on the Gulf of Mexico. Today I experienced salt in the form of it being stuck on my car, sprayed onto there by the streets of Wisconsin. Bummer. Oh well, it's back to the real world and real life, however that may be. For now, it means I have my first homework assignment of the new semester to do.