Weekend recap...surprise!

We're back! What a great weekend! For the amount of stuff we squeezed in such a short timeframe, the trip really didn't seem all that rushed. On Thursday we drove down to Lake City and spent the night at my parents' house. Friday morning we woke up fairly early and I drove mom's car over to Tallahassee (hour and a half drive) for my interview. It went really well. The place was really nice and I practically felt at home with all the old folks. :-) I may know by the end of this week if that's going to be my new home. I'll spare all the details until I know more. After the interview I went to lunch with Nicole and Amy at Sonny's (YUM!). Meanwhile, when I left for Tallahassee, Dane took my car to Gainesville (45 minutes south of my parents' house). He had an hour-long phone interview with the Follett recruiting people and then he met with the store manager down at the UF bookstore. I know this is vague, but both of us did really well, and we hope that one of us has gotten a job out of it. We should both know something soon.

We met back in Lake City and set out for Orlando. We got there just in the knick of time before the clouds opened up. It was SO GOOD to see all the Orlando peeps...it always feels like no time has passed. So this is where the engagement party was to take place...

It was a really cool place...brick walls, exposed pipes and beams, great area of town. Well, boy did Hazel and Chuck surprise everyone...it wasn't an engagement party. It was THEIR WEDDING!!! Surprise! Their parents didn't even know! Needless to say, Dane and I are so so glad that we went. I didn't get too many pics, but here are a couple...

A few years back, "all of us" had sit-in-front-of-the-computer-all-day jobs and we would email back and forth by "reply all" ALL day. At the time, Dane worked for Department of Health in Tally, I worked for Department of Law Enforcement in Tally, Hazel & Katie (bride and girl in yellow) worked for a graphic design firm in Orlando, Jennifer (in pink) worked for the government/Army in Orlando, and Ant worked in Tampa. At some point after our jobs all changed, someone dubbed us "the email possee". Great times. So here we all are:

And here we all were last summer at Katie & Ant's wedding:

And here we all were at our wedding 3 years ago!

The next morning Jennifer met us at our hotel and we went back to the Farmers Market where the wedding too place. It was awesome. We grabbed a bagel and lemonade and proceeded to melt a little. We couldn't think of anything we really wanted to do or anywhere we wanted to go, so we decided to head on back to Lake City. We stopped in Gainesville for awhile and I took a drive down memory lane. I went and saw my old apartment...even though about 8 years has passed since I lived there, I remember it like it was yesterday. We drove through the UF campus and I found the spot where a friend and I carved our initials in wet cement. :-)

Then we headed on back to the LC and when we got close to home I decided I wanted to take a few pics. It's so beautiful in its own way. It's just home. I get a serious case of the homesicks just looking at them...

Meet Bucky the burro. She's been our neighbor for as long as I can remember. :-)

And here's another neighbor. My parent's house is just past the trees.

That pretty much concludes the trip. :-)