Fall break in Florida!

Florida was freaking amazing. here are the things we did:

Friday: Flew into Tampa and Tio, Stephanie's Uncle, picked us up and took us to his restaurant for some yummy food. went to bed about 2:30 am.


Saturday: slept in some and then went to Adventure Island water park! whoo! so fun!!! we hung out there for the afternoon and then came home and showered to changed into nicer clothes. we went downtown and saw a cool cinderella ball carriage and an upside down building that looked like a diamond. throughout this whole deal, its nice and hot outside and at night a nice breeze.

Heres a pic of us saturday morning on our way to Adventure Island! of course, it had to be starbucks:)

Sunday: drove out to St. Petersburg beach to the hotel resort, Don Cesar. it was so fun having such fun facilities with a hot tub, two pools, white sand, blue water, and people waiting on us to give us towels, virgin drinks, and available to take our pictures. that night, we went out to olive garden, where we "celebrated" Rachel's non existent birthday. the restaurant staff gleefully sang to her while clapping their hands loudly, and rachel looking extremely stunned and confused. after that, we went back up to our hotel room, changed, and got right back into the hot water of the hot tub while looking up at the stars. got back home and watched high school musical!:)

Here we are at the Don Cesar, enjoying the pool by the beach!

Sun bathing on the white sands and getting tan!

our Virgin diaquiris and other beach drinks:)

synchronized swimming.



another pool pic after our synchronized swimming:)

more sun bathing and taking naps in the hot sun

group pic in the pool:)

hot tub at nite under the stars

sing along with cheetah girls on disney channel

Monday: spent the day shopping at the International Plaza mall and then eating another yummy mexican lunch. after that we came home, changed into prettified clothes, and went out to Carabba's for Steph's bday. (we didnt know it was for her bday, it was a surprise from her uncle:)) She turns 20 next thursday! the party changed at the end of dinner into a surprise Bachelorette party for me!!! yay. we went bowling in our prettified clothing and the shoes added a nice touch to it. :)

trying on dresses at the mall. this one was the most unique. the dress had so much extra fabric, i could slide through it and peek through the other side!

playing in the kids play place.

last meal at Uncle Tio's restaurant.

dressed up and ready to go!!:)

our shoes look so hot with our outfits

my first bachelorette party!

before the evening began

taken by a security guard that wants to go to moody!

celebrating our special gal, stephanie's, birthday!

me with my pink bowling ball.

she decorated my head.

so it was an absolutely lovely weekend. loved hanging with the girls. it was hard to come back to chilly chicago, but i was blessed with the time i did get with them in the warmth of tampa! i gotta say i'm blessed with these girls. i love them so dearly and i'm gonna miss steph and jenna when they leave next sem. more memories to make. we had some really great memory making moment in florida...hahaha, some i'll next forget.