Saint Diodati

The Stock Report
2004-10-07 17:44:20 (UTC)

trip to florida (friday)

Wow I haven't been writing in a while but this has been a
pretty busy week. I'll start from this past friday:
Jennifer had spent the night thursday night, and just
planned on driving from my house to her geography class
before we left for Florida. My family was also going on a
trip up to Asheville the same weekend...so while they were
getting ready at like 5 in the morning, it woke me and
jennifer up while we were sleeping on the sofa. Once they
left, we moved up to my room to go back to
sleep....but....I was way too excited. After laying in the
bed with my eyes wide open, staring out the window until
around 6...I rolled over and told jennifer that i was too
excited to go back to sleep and that i was going to go get
us some biscuits from Chick-fil-a...oh man...on the way
there i just kept thinking "I'm going to a gator game, i'm
going to a gator game, i'm going to a gator game"...I even
told the drive-thru girl at chick-fil-a that i was going
to florida...I was so excited! When I got back i devoured
the chicken biscuits, and i got online reading pretty much
every thread on the gator forum. I downloaded the CBS
college football theme and "Jaws" by the gator band...I
also downloaded "Goodies", "Lean Back-Remix" and "Let's
Go" so jen and i would have some jams to listen to on the
way down...Jennifer was still asleep until about 9:30 and
i layed in my bed with her for a while talking about the
trip. Before long she had to get up and go to Geography,
and I was getting even more excited because this meant i
was getting closer to leaving for florida with my
girlfriend...I took a shower and finished packing most of
the stuff i would need in my bag for the weekend...and
then i went by BJ's and picked up my check and went and
cashed it at the bank, along with getting some more cash.
I couldn't even contain myself! I came back to the house,
and I ran through a huge check-list of things i needed to
have or do before i left...I got all the things together,
locked all the doors, made sure the stupid ass cats had
food, turned the lights out...man i was psyched up...I put
everything into the jeep and headed over to KSU...when i
got there it was only a few minutes before Jennifer got
out of class...and she got the last of her things from her
dorm and after a quick stop at wendy's, we got on I-
75....I put the CD i had just burned in the player, and
blared the CBS college footall theme...I got chills...It
was a beautiful day, I had my beautiful girlfriend next to
me, and I was on the way to the beautiful Mecca of Gator
Country: "The Swamp".
We sped through atlanta and pretty much made great
time...we went right around 4-75 in macon, and didn't even
stop until we got to tifton, where we were going to meet
my friend Cara and her boyfriend at Moe's. It was the
perfect place to stop, because we were hungry and the gas
light came on in the jeep while we got off the exit...It
was pretty cool meeting cara and being able to talk to her
in person, and i was glad it worked out like that. We had
fun there but before too long, jen and i had to get back
on the road with the next stop being Valdosta where we
would meet GAgator from the gator forum to get our
tickets. While we were on the way there, Jennifer kept
saying things like "Zac, what if he shoots us, what if he
rapes us, what if he's weird? what if he doesn't really
have the tickets?!" I kept trying to reassure her that he
was actually a human being who was in posession of gator
tickets who was just as worried that we wouldnt' show up
as jennifer was worried that he wouldn't. I called him
when we were in Adel, and he told me he'd be up at a
wendy's right off of exit 18 with his wife, and we could
meet him there. We got to the wendy's only about a minute
before him, and he was a really cool guy, and i talked to
him for a little bit while his wife talked to jennifer.
When I got back into the jeep and got back on the
interstate, jennifer was the most excited about the trip i
had seen her since we planned it. Getting the tickets
really cemented our chances of being at the game, and she
got pretty excited about it. Before long, we crossed the
florida border, and we were seing signs for lake city! It
wasn't too long after we crossed the border that we got to
Lake City, just as the sun was going down. We found our
Days Inn right off the exit, and after checking in and
bringing our stuff up to the room, we just relaxed in the
hotel. We ordered a pizza and just watched TV and talked
about the day tomorrow. I called Dottie because her and
tom were staying in Lake City also at the Motel 6 right
down the street from us, and we made plans to meet up in
the morning, so that we could follow them into
gainesville. After finishing the pizza, jennifer and i
went to bed...It took me a long time to fall asleep...but
i finally did...




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