As mentioned before, one of my new year's resolutions for 2013 is to take more pictures. Well, in the past I've seen several people post "a picture a day" on Facebook and I always thought it was kind of cool. Since we're still towards the beginning of the year, I'll go ahead and play that game too. Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures from yesterday, the 3rd, so I might improvise as I continue this post.
December 31st, 2012:
One of my gifts from this past Christmas was a fun pass to Busch Gardens. (It lasts all year -- thanks, J!) Since it had been 3+ years since the last time I visited the park, I'm pretty sure I literally squealed with excitement on more than one occasion over this gift. Being from the Tampa area, I am no stranger to BG having had fun passes several different years throughout middle and high school. I loved going back this New Year's Eve, especially since I still think BG has the best roller coaster rides and animals around!
Montu was always my favorite ride, mostly because I would normally wear flip flops to the park and sit on them when on the ride so my bare feet could dangle below me.
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| Photo of Montu above from this website |
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| Photo of Cheetah Hunt from this website |
As I said earlier, I love Busch Gardens for the animals that are there too. We rode the train through the "Serengeti" where we saw all sorts of animals. The thing that is most cool to me is how close you feel you are to the animals. We happen to be going past the giraffe as they were being fed. I think the next time we go I might have to convince Jamie to let us go on the truck ride to feed the giraffe too.
We also saw rhinos, zebras, swimming hippos, panthers, cheetahs, tigers, monkeys... and all sorts of things. And a lot of them were so lively. The tigers were especially cool this day because one was constantly staring at the window of people observing. He looked HUNGRY and ready to pounce.
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| On the train |
Overall, the weather that day was close to perfect. While we did ride front row on every ride we could that day, we didn't get through every ride because we were so exhausted and ready to get back home and ring in the new year together with our hot wings and margaritas!
January 1st, 2013:
The first day of 2013, Jamie and I decided to take a ride on the Hawthorne Trail. The original intention was to ride the WHOLE 30 miles, until Jamie got wind of the Georgia game playing at 1:00 pm that day. So we did about 13 or so miles instead.. another beautiful day out.
We stopped at one of the walkways to check out the water. There were several people fishing there which was surprising to me considering several months ago the place was so dried up.
Later that night, I got a package in the mail I had been waiting a month for. It was a gift for my best friend Jessica since she had a baby girl named Brooke back on 9/11/12. I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but it was better than I expected and I was so pumped to tell her about it. It's a necklace with her daughter's name, birth weight/length, and birthstone. Super cute and I definitely would recommend others to consider this gift for their loved ones who have a baby. (Etsy has lots of cool stuff on it) She officially received it in the mail today and loves it just as much as I do. :)
January 2nd, 2013:
My picture of the day for this day was of the calendars in this post.
January 3rd, 2013:
This is a long one...
On this day, both Jamie and I had stressful work-filled days and had drinks on the mind. Eventually we decided to try out Napolatano's since Jamie had never been before. The waitress met us at the table and asked what we'd like to drink. Having never been there before, Jamie inquired about the selection of beers. She pulled out a small wrinkled piece of printed paper with different drinks and their prices. He settled on a Blue Moon, even verified that the price was $2.25 for a pint. We shared a pizza, he had another beer, and then the bill came. You know where this is going -- she charged him $4.95 a piece for the 2 beers he drank. When we questioned the waitress, she said that the $2.25 price was the happy hour price till 7 pm (which she never said earlier, and apparently we ordered at 6:53, which still didn't make sense why both were full price). Why would you show a customer the happy hour list and not tell them it's a happy hour price that's over in 7 minutes, and then charge them full price? It was like pulling teeth trying to explain to her that she was the one that made the mistake. She finally agreed to talk to a manager and decided to right the wrong and take off the difference between the prices.
Our frustrations didn't end there. She came back out with the receipts to sign the tip on, and the original wrong total was charged to the debit card. She had to go BACK and do it all over again. I told Jamie it was probably in his best interest to save all receipts because I have a feeling he's going to see several wacky charges on his account and have to dispute it. It was seriously a mess that night and I doubt he will ever feel like going back there. Such a shame.
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| Photo of Napolatano's from this website |
After work today, I stopped by Kohls to look for a beanie and spend my $10 in Kohls Cash that they sent me for my upcoming birthday. They ended up having an awesome sale on their jackets, so I spent what seemed like an hour trying on different jackets and sending a couple of pictures off to friends and family to help me pick out one. I eventually picked out a purple "Zero Exposure" jacket which will be perfect for my upcoming trip to cold and rainy Europe. It's normally $120 and I think I got it for $36. I also think if I would have purchased it on-line, I could've probably gotten it for cheaper, but I need it by next week. :)
That is all for now. Stay happy, my friends!
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