Endings and Beginnings

Well to get on with the important news now since PT Philly. The most important news was solidifying where I will be next year. I will be attending OSU for Law School after finally getting no's from Chicago and Northwestern near graduation week. I signed the lease to stay at my apartment with Tom and Heather next year and Jon and Berens will be moving out. Yay for more Patrice (but the apartment is so nice and such a good deal you cannot pass it up)! Kelley came up and spent most of finals week with me and that was awesome. Got a 4.0 for first time in a couple years so that was cool too, but really does not matter as Latin honors and everything were determined by winter quarter standing. Survived a Hitler/Freud paper and lots of Essehigh exams graded, and finally we come to graduation. My Mom, Dad, stepmom, 3 siblings, cousin, and Grandparents from Iowa came along with Kelley. We met Friday night late at their hotel and then Saturday we played mini-golf and go0karts all day at Magic Mountain at Polaris. It was a lot of fun and Dad beat me at golf as usual because I have a mental block against him lol. Went out to Olive Garden once my stepmom and grandparents were done shopping and once Mom made it in after work. Graduation the next day was long and huge, but it is kind of cool to graduate from Ohio Stadium and all that. Damn hot day and rained on us three times, but we got the pieces of paper after 2.5-3 hours and went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse after we all went back and showered or cleaned up. Iowa family went to Niagara Falls and Cedar Point and Chicago the following week but I already had plans so I missed out on that. Of course come Tuesday our plans were rendered useless by the cameraman's vehicle breaking down causing a second rescheduling of our church directory photo appointment...will we ever get this picture done? Yeesh...we finally figured out THE DAY WE WERE LEAVING for Florida on Thursday that Kayleigh was not allowed to go and would not be paying her part of the house (which is complete bullshit because even my mom paid her part when she did not go). Kaylegh was completely irresponsible and I am not going to forget this inicident for a while. Of course this stressed out Kelley even more on top of finding out she got a D in theory which may set her back in school. I do not think it will but if it does who knows what she will do. Future uncertain of course, but that's life and we will work it all out in the end. Anyways...
Florida vacation was awesome. Very relaxing and the house we rented was perfect. We could fit 8 or more easily into this house and be comfortable, so it was very spacious for 4. Kelley and I had our own master bedroom and bathroom with a tub which we used to take plenty of bubble baths over the week. Thursday we drove to just inside South Carolina and stopped for the night. Did the other half on Friday and could not find a Bojangles for Kelley to eat at and she was insistent we get Bojangles so we promise on the way back to get some. Friday we went to WalMart and got food. Saturday Angela (Kelley's cousin) and her husband Jim came down for the day and we grilled out and played a memorable game of Uno. Sunday we went to Flagler Beach which was a 10 minute drive from the apartment and swam in the Ocean..OK but the beach was more broken up shells than sand so it kind of sucked. We also played tennis on Sunday and that was fun. Then Monday we went down to Daytona Beach and shopped in lots of little stores looking for a shell for my mom's friend (we eventually found something close) and Kelley and I picked up bodyboards. We walked along the sandy beach at Daytona and saw the Ponce de Leon lighthouse but not much more to talk about. Tuesday we went up to St. Augustine and saw the lighthouse there and walked around all the little shops like we did last September with Angela. Then Wednesday we went up to Jacksonville in the morning and met Jim who took us on base and on his boat the JFK. So big and cool to actually get to walk around the flight deck and all other areas of the ship. Then we met with Angela and went out to eat before heading back down the coast to find a sandy beach about 25 minutes from our house to go swim until after sunset. The next day we went back to the beach during the early afternoon and swam some more. Laying on my bodyboard all day without a T-shirt...not a good idea. I felt burn all over my back on the way back form the beach and got it worse than everyone else who also got burnt. The drive back on Friday was pretty excruciating for all of us as we hit bumpy roads from FL to OH. Spent the weekend at home before coming back up here Sunday. Which leads us to this week. Kelley and I have been relaxing and watching TV and etc yesterday and today. Tonight the boys (Shep, Joey, Blocker, and Tatties) came up to stay for the rest of the week for Origins so we have a full house tonight. Word is Jon is coming up for the weekend to pay rent and hang out as well, so if Berens comes back we really will have a full house lol. I look forward to Origins every year and hope to game all weekend to my heart's content before heading to Iowa on July 4-16. Going to take a side trip to Wisconsin Dells to get away once more before Kelley has to start doing band stuff and before I get into law school and busy-ness hits a record high. Decided that Tom, Heather, Kelley, and I are going out to Los Angeles for the next construted pro tour in October whether or not we are qualified this summer...so it will be a vacation to look forward to either way. Well that's my last two months in a nutshell (mostly focusing on June but oh well). So have a good one and I will see you sometime on here!