With the new HD website complete, and a small break in my schedule before a crazy amount of spring shows and biz trips coming up, Dan and I took a week long vacation to Florida last week, which was a wonderful break from the cold weather in Michigan!
We left on Sunday and first went to Disney World for three days. We watched rhinos running at Animal Kingdom, rode some of the classic rides at Magic Kingdom, enjoyed the Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot, swam in the gigantic wave pool and went on lots of water slides at Typhoon Lagoon (who’dve thought I’d love water parks?!?), and had some AMAZING meals and Strongbow on tap at Pleasure Island. It was oodles of fun!
On day four we rented an electric blue PT Cruiser and drove to the next hotel in Wesley Chapel to meet up with Dan’s parents. Dan and his dad went to shotgun shooting lessons with a private instructor for the next two days while Dan’s mom and I hung out, shopped and laid in the sun by the pool reading (so great). Dan and his dad were both really impressed with their lessons, and we all had a great time together in the evening!
Next, the four of us finished the trip with a day and a half at Clearwater Beach. Our hotel rooms had balconies overlooking the beach, which had the whitest sand I’ve ever seen and seashells washing up with every wave. It was gorgeous, and I even saw a couple dolphins swimming by! One last incredible dinner and a round of mini-golf in an elaborate pirate-ship course and it was time to head back to Michigan the next afternoon. Even though it was pretty cold that morning, Dan and I had to take the opportunity to swim in the ocean for the first time (ok, so it was the Gulf of Mexico, but I still think it counts) and quickly discovered that salt water tastes really yucky. But it was fun to swim in!
We headed back to Michigan and while we were sad to leave Florida, we were so excited to get back home and see Kona again. Now we are both back to work today, and Michigan welcomed us home with (hopefully) the last snowfall of the season! Missing Florida already!!!
Dan, Josh, and the HD crew has been working crazy amounts of time lately on the amazingly cool new Handmade Detroit website. Now it is almost ready to launch and we are all SO damn excited! See a slight glimpse of it before it’s official reveal here!
So I was given a massive amount of records yesterday…and I can’t possibly use them all for record notebooks, so…
It’s a free record give-away weekend at our house!
I’d guess that it’s about 800 records to look through, and though it’s really not in any great shape and isn’t of any real value to sell, they are still playable. Or use them in some sort of art or craft project! They are all types of different music and genres (everything from Loverboy to Hall and Oates to Bing Crosby to Musical Soundtracks).
Wanna take a look? Email me and I’ll give you our address (if you don’t have it already)! And make sure to bring a milk crate or five to bring home your new loot!
Liberal conspiracy theorist and good pal Lish just made me my new favorite poster at work! For some crazy reason, there’s a white, heavenly glow behind our new President in this photo. Don’t worry Barack, we can be buddies if you want. Just stop standing in front of Jesus.
Saturday night was Steve and Sarah’s wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony, and a super fun reception! We had a great time and enjoyed the great food, un-weddingish music (thanks Mike!), photo booth machine, and especially hanging out with my family! Check out the Flickr set here.
