Well it all started about midnight Friday night. I got in Tampa at 11pm and was drinking at a bar called Howl at the Moon by 12am. It was a dueling piano place.... very fun.... they sang great 'sing along songs' that you know all the words too! 'Sweet Caroline', 'If you like Pina Coladas', 'Shook me all night long’.... you know the ones. We closed that place down, and drove back to the hotel - it was a full moon and we had a fantastic view of the water right outside of the hotel. Life is good.
Saturday ate a fat breakfast and headed for the beach. Of course had to have a couple of cocktails just to set the day off right. I went for a good ol' mug of ice-cold beer. Just something about it screams beach time to me. Then we played in the water for a few hours, took a nap in the sun and life was perfect.
Then got ready and went out to Eborg (a couple block stretch of many, many bars and restaurants) we hit an Irish Pub, and sports bar, a sushi place, and a dance club. Drug our butts home at about 3am but all and all a very well rounded evening.
Sunday, my actual birthday, my sister hooked us up with a brunch cruise on this kick ass yacht. There was amazing food, fun fruity drinks and a reggae band playing on the top deck. It was a balmy 87 degrees and the wind was whipping through my hair. Again, life is good.
Went back to the hotel and took a tiny nap. Then showered and back to the beach, this time we hung out at a tiki bar right on the water. This calls for the perfect margarita ......
Six margarita's later and I find myself talking to this very hot man with a voice that sounds exactly like Matthew McConaughey. Seriously, I even shut my eyes a couple of times just to make sure. Anyway he just happened to have a boat and a friend for my sister. And so the next thing I know I am cruisin on this huge boat and we pull up to this kick ass house. Evel Knievel was there neighbor and John Travolta's house was about a mile around the bend. Very nice place. So the boys give us a tour and make fun fruity drinks and we go swimming and hot tubbing. I won't go into the gory details but it was one fantastic most awesome day. And that's the only way to describe it.
Of course I had to catch a plane the next day (Monday) and so at 4am I am racing back to the hotel to shower and get to the airport by 6am. Had to check out of the hotel, drop off the car and run to my gate. Was at my job by 1pm - smelling like a brewery I am sure. But I made it.....
Man, I feel like a rock star!
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