So… back from Vacation, already!!!
As a lot of you know my mom, my sister Amber and I went to St. Pete Beach in Tampa Florida for two weeks, July 14th through the 28th. We had a wonderful time! The weather was great for the most part. But of course, when it rains it only rains for about 15 minutes. :) We stayed at the Grand Plaza Resort. We loved the hotel room, but not so much the resort itself. We stayed at the Sirata which is next to the Grand Plaza two years ago, the rooms aren’t very nice but the resort part is awesome. Since we were going for two weeks, we knew we wanted a better room and we could just walk over to Sirata to use their pools and hot tubs. Our resort only had one pool and no hot tub unfortunately. On the better hand, Grand Plaza had FREE wireless internet access which worked perfect. We stayed on the fifth floor in room 508. We asked for an upgrade to beach view and received it for free! For two weeks all I had to do was, wake up, goto the pool, layout and tan, eat, drink, take pictures, socialize and relax. It was fullfilling. Now I’m back here in PA, where the sun hardly has been shining, working 6 days a week serving, picking up people’s shifts for them. BLAHHHH. So I’m getting pretty sick of the “real world” job. There’s so much more than I can be doing. I have a lot of talent, I just need to put it to use and I will. Eventually, i’ll be content with where my life is going, right now… not so much. I want better for myself. I’ve just been a really lazy person and I don’t know how to get out of it. It sucks. Anyways.. back to Florida. Some of the places we ate at include The Village Inn, Crabby Bills, Sila’s Steakhouse, Skidders and Frenchy’s. We went shopping at Publix a lot and bought food for the room. It gets expensive eating out! At night Amber and I would take flashlights down to the gulf and look in water. We found sting rays, many of them… crabs and saw huge fish in the water. I’m not going to lie, the shuffle your feet warning signs and seeing them in 3 inches of water freaked me out. While we were down there, a girl very close to the area was bit by a shark. F THAT! I really didn’t go in the gulf at all. One time on a tube the second day I was there. That was enough for me. I collected a bunch of sea shells while on the beach, like I always do. We met some young people that we hung out with for a couple nights while there. Amber’s birthday was a shitshow down there. We got extremely drunk and I woke up on a hammock on the beach the next morning. I’d have to say that was pretty awesome. The flights were pretty okay… we had connecting flights to and from. From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to Tampa, then on the way back Tampa to Charlotte to Pittsburgh. We got delayed at Charlotte, bad storms. It sucked pretty bad cause at that point I just wanted to be home! Overall we had a great time and I can’t wait to go on another vacation. Probably for my 21st coming up in December! WOOO! :) Can’t wait.
That’s our hotel in the background.
May 4th, 2009 by Ashley | 
