Who me? Yes you! Couldn't be. Then who?

Last night Heather, Laura's friend from work, came over and we had delicious fish tacos for dinner. Well, some of them were ground turkey, but they were all super tasty. Heather brought over a big tray of those frosted sugar cookies you get at the grocery store. Yum! She brought her dog Bella with her, who is super crazy, but very very nice! Melvin couldn't handle all the excitement though so he just sat around in the corner in his robe.
After dinner we went to Channelside in hopes of seeing the dueling pianos at the Howl at the Moon piano bar, but sadly, it was closed. Lucky for us there re lots of bars at Channelside so we just found somewhere else. We ended up at Margarita Mamas where Laura found her new favorite band. (Her new favorite cover band?) They played all the songs she likes! I had a tasty strawberry margarita, but Michael just had water because he is watching his figure. While we were there the four of us played trivia games on the TV, Team Melvin (Laura and Katie) against Team Baggy (Mike and me). Team Baggy was totally awesome! We won 3 out of 4 games! Yes! We're awesome. Michael specialized in the WWII questions and I was awesome at the food questions (It's very important to know that borcht is made out of beets. It comes up all the time! And I never had to look it up on the internet.) Anyways, after we left we went over by the water to take a picture (Channelside is right on the bay) and WOW! There was a real live wild dolphin swimming around out there. It was super awesome! Hooray for Florida wildlife!
Later when we got home, I was sitting at the table doing something on the computer when I noticed that the tray of cookies was entirely empty! THAT SNEAKY MELVIN ATE ALL OF OUR DELICIOUS COOKIES! Baghira isn't totally innocent though, I think she knocked them off of the table for him. Melvin had to spend the night in his kennel, where he whined and whined and whined all night. You naughty naughty anipals!

Oh Melvin!

Today all I did was play with Melvin! Oh Melvin! You are my one and only love!!! Well, that is a lie, of course, but he has been the only one willing to snuggle with me for the last few days. This is a picture of us packing a cooler for the beach yesterday. Too bad Melvin couldn't fit in there along with all the beers and Dr. Peppers.

So yesterday Katie, Mike and I all went to the beach. We got pretty lost going there (we were lost in a way that we were able to get back to where we needed to be relatively easily. We tried to go to Honeymoon Island, but got too lost and ended up just going to Clearwater Beach instead. We ended up getting an awesome parking spot though, and the weather was beautiful. The sun was shining but it wasn't too hot, and the breeze was nice and cool. It may have been the most perfect beach weather there ever was. I will have to put some pictures as soon as I can get my hands on a USB cable that will accomodate my camera.

After the beach we all went to Laura's company kickball game. Even Melvin got to come. It was awesome! Mike scored the winning run and Laura batted him in (well, kicked him in). Ok, the truth is, they lost horribly, and Mike scored the only run, but it was still really fun. Laura caught the ball lots of times!

After kickball Katie and I joined some of the team for drinks at Elmers. It was good times. A friend of Laura's that went to high school with her joined us and we all heard an AWESOME joke. (If you want to hear it I'll have to get you in touch with my sister Becky). After the bar we came home and sang karaoke on Laura's TV. My best number was New York, New York, a performance that I dedicated to Melvin.

Today we got up pretty late, and hung around the house till... I don't know, one maybe? Then we went to Lettuce Lake Park, where we walked on all the boardwalks and Mike provided us with some very informative nature facts. ("Here is a bird house. This is significant because is shows us that birds have mastered the art of tool use." or "Here is a brown bird with white spots. This is signifcant because it suggests that birds and deer have a common ancestor.") I took some lovely nature photos!

Next we drove around Tampa and I showed Katie some of the highlights of my childhood (we drove past my old house, my middle school, etc.) Then we got some sandwiches at my favorite sub place and ate them at Lake Park, which is basically right across the street from my old house. We didn't see any alligators anywhere though, so it was a let down. I'm getting quite a lot of practice at driving a standard transmission though.

Now Katie and I are playing computers and my brother is playing playstation. Laura should be home soon though so the good times should start up again!