This ones for you Corey.
We arrived in Orlando on Wednesday June 30th. When ever we tell people that its one of our destinations they always look at us kind of funny and ask us why we're going there considering we're planning on going to Chicago and Detroit on this trip. Well one of my oldest and best friends Daniel Alvarez lives in Orlando and I promised we'd come see him while we drove across the country. It was a little out of the way, but well worth the drive.
I just want to throw in this picture real quick like. We stopped and got BBQ somewhere between Mobile and Orlando for lunch, we ordered root beer for our drink. This is Florida's idea of how much pop you'll need with your meal. I think its bigger then my head.
We arrived late Wednesday night and rode our bikes to Bar B-Q. We met a handful of Daniel's friends there, then we rode to Jonathan's house, had a few drinks then ended back at Daniel's. Around 3am we went down to the community pool and climbed over the fence to swim for a while.
Corey, this one's for you.
Sometimes it feels like Cookie and I are the only people that don't drink Whiskey.
Jen Mak and Allison.
Evidently a number of years ago someone had the bright idea of pulling up the paved streets and re-covering them with bricks. It also happened to be raining that night. As we were riding to Jonathan's house I fell off my bicycle and landed on my wrist. I hurt it pretty bad. I had to get a wrist brace and wear it the rest of the stay in Orlando. Great way to start the visit...
Thursday afternoon we picked up some gummy bears and went to Jen Mak's house. She loves gummy bears, but hates the red ones, so we licked them and threw them onto the ceiling.
We left there and went to Allison's house to relax for a while.
We went home to get our bicycles. As we rode to Jen Mak's house again it started to rain. I don't mean a weak San Francisco drizzle, this was a rain that I haven't experienced since I lived in New Jersey. It rained HARD! We got to Mak's house so wet that we had to strip and throw our clothing in the dryer.
Later that night we went to Bar B-Q again. We found some mopeds.
Dance party!
I want MOAR mustache!
While we're on the road, we only eat like champions, This is like 6am.
We picked Mak up from work.
Later Friday we went to the mall to go shopping.
This was a weird but very rad sculpture outside.
Photo shoot in Zara NY.
We left the mall and went to this weird party. We met a few of the food Lions (Orlando Moped gang) but a bunch of jerk offs were throwing black cats at the crowds of people all night. I don't think its hard to imagine how quickly that gets annoying.
We found a night Owl.
Great combination. Right Sean?
Saturday Morning we woke up and went to a coffee shop called Stardust.
Brooks was really excited about this for some reason.
Later that afternoon we went to Jonathan's house. There's Daniel and I on the left and Jonathan on the right.
Cats seem to know that Brooks is allergic to them, I think that's why they always seem to go to him. He's a good sport about it.
Jonathan.
We went out Saturday night to another dance party. Now in these pictures we're all deceptively gross. Its not ALL sweat. The roof of this dance floor was exposed and it was raining that night (well it rained every night for that matter) so its sweat mixed with rain water.
Why is that girl making that face?
Or that one?
Why is Brooks making that face?
Jonathan again.
Saturday evening we were riding and Brooks' moped mysteriously died. When we checked for compression there was pretty much none. The next day we took the top end off and this is what we found.
Seems pretty self explanatory.
Sunday was July 4th, America day. We went that evening to a party/show at one of Jonathan's friend's house.
We lit off HUNDREDS of firecrackers. We had bottle rocket and black cat fights, and the moped boys brought a bunch of mortars that they were lighting off all night. At some point it started raining pretty hard so most of the people went under the awning or inside.
This is where the party got a little intense (as if the firecracker fight wasn't crazy enough.) I was inside at the time but as I understand it the last band was playing and the singer's shoe came off during a song. One of the moped boys picked it up and threw it back at the singer. I guess nobody noticed that the police had just showed up to break the party up and the police officer was coming up behind the band when the guy threw the shoe. The shoe hit the officer in the face and she went crazy. I guess she dove on the guy who threw it and cuffed him. Her partner called in for backup and like five more police cars showed up in a matter of minutes. Needless to say that was the end of the party. There was an officer walking around with a video camera telling people,"If you're on this video you're under arrest." That's pretty much right when we decided to leave. We rode our bikes in the rain back to Jonathan's house and had an after party there.
While we were at Jonathan's house there was a guy (his name is escaping me) who started forcing all of the other guys at the party to take their shirts off. "ALL THE DUDES HERE BETTER TAKE THEIR SHIRTS OFF NOW!" then he proceeded to walk around and take all of our shirts off.
That seemed like a perfect time to have a gay photo shoot.
Dude on the left is the one who made us all strip.
This might explain why he wanted us to be naked.
Miz U Mak.
America day was fuuuuuuun! We were going to leave Monday morning, but America day was to rough. We decided to relax, recoup an extra day, and leave Tuesday. Monday was pretty uneventful because everyone had to work. When Daniel got off we went to his local bar and had a few drinks. (Monday is dollar martini night)
Mak.
We left there after a drink and went to a pool hall.
We closed the pool hall and went back to Jen's coworker Kevin's house for video games and hamburgers.
Thanks Mak for taking all the pictures.
I don't even know what Kevin is doing in these pictures.
Look what we found! I hope he washed his hands before he made the burgers.
We went back to Pom Pom's Teahouse Tuesday morning to say bye to Mak and to get another BOMB ass sandwich.
Thank you so much to everyone that hung out with us while we were in Orlando. Thank you Daniel for letting us stay, Thank you Mak for letting us watch all of your Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Jonathan, Allison, thanks for playing with us! We had so much fun!
Corey My hat has traveled many miles.
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