After five years at Drake University, I have finally made it to Rotations!!! Immediately following my last final, I met my parents at Gazallis (if you have never been there- GO!). After eating my last yummy spicy chicken pita for a while, I moved all my stuff out of my apartment. Luckily, I am the youngest of 3 so my parents are crazy fast at moving. Within a few hours, all my stuff was loaded up in my Dad's truck and my car. After a 5 hour drive, we unloaded all my stuff in the kitchen. THAT was overwhelming. Sitting in the middle of a sea of my stuff, I almost had a meltdown! Then, my dad did what any caring parent would do- handed me a beer. After consuming that, I gave up and went to bed. Sadly since I went home immediately following my final, I missed out on what was apparently was a crazy, celebratory P3 (I guess it would be P4?) Booze Cruise. But, I spent ALL Thursday unpacking, repacking, organizing, and of course the most important thing... got my hair dyed.
Friday, May 11, 2012, I left Janesville, WI with my mom to head to Tampa. I hate driving, so I convinced her to come with me. I learned along the way that Illinois may be the worst and longest state to drive through... EVER. I believe it took over 8 hours to make it through the state. Somewhere in Illinois or Kentucky, we saw a sign for a winery and decided to stop to take a break from driving. As we pulled up to the winery, we both said out loud that we had been there before. Turns out, four years prior we had stopped there on our way to the Florida Keys. Apparently my family enjoys wine!
My mom and I switched driving every few hours. After driving through the mountains, she needed to rest her "balls"... eye balls that is. I had a very long laugh over that statement- partially because it was probably midnight and because it was hilarious to hear my mom say balls. I had the lovely job of driving through Atlanta. The Lucacris song- "Goin' hundred on the highwayyy, if you do the speed limit get the **** out of my way!"... is an accurate statement to how people drive in Atlanta. Only, I was not doing hundred on the highway, so people wanted ME out of their way. Needless to say, I'm glad it was somewhere around 1 am that I drove through there, rush hour has to be TERRIFYING.
After switching drivers again, we were both really tired somewhere around 4 am, so we stopped and slept at a rest stop for a few hours. Once we got to Tampa, we then had the joy of attempting to locate the building that I had to check in at. Only, my phone died literally 10 minutes before getting to the University of South Florida campus so I was unable to bring up the address to type in the GPS. After locating it, I was given directions to the apartment that I will be living in for the next 5 weeks. I expected it to be just like West Village, which it is similar... only with ants (thanks humid, Florida weather). After unpacking, we decided to try to find a beach to try to sleep on. SURPRISE, just because I'm in Florida doesn't mean I am close to a beach, sadly. So, I googled beaches trying to find the closest one. I entered the name of the beach in my phone on the GPS and we started driving. As we got off the highway, my phone died, AGAIN. My charger in my car apparently does NOT work anymore. So, we were in the middle of Tampa with no directions to the beach. Of course, I could not remember the name or address of the beach. I brought up the GPS and tried to give directions based on what I could see on the map. We stumbled upon a random little beach, not the one we intended, but whatever, there was sand, sun, and water.
After leaving the beach and cleaning up, we decided that we should eat seafood. After utilizing handy google.com, I located a restaurant called Captain Just Crab Shack that had 4.5 stars. We went there for dinner. YUMMMMMMMM. It was AMAZING. We did not do too much the rest of the evening.
Today, Sunday, May 13, 2012, I drove my mom to the airport. I need to figure out how long it will take me to walk to my rotation and what is around USF.
xoxo
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