as you may have discovered by now, the entire amato family headed to orlando over memorial weekend. it was the first time we have been together this year, which basically means we saw pat.
the reason we went to orlando was because one of pat’s college roommates, hanafin, was getting married. or going over to the dark side. we all love weddings so we decided to go…even though kt, dr, and i weren’t technically invited.
almost the entire cast and crew of characters were present. there was sheb and muffin, the legendary dan burke, smeagol and jennay, roland, bike mike and gweneth, frosty, cougar bott, bobby the beast, the silver fox, shatomi “she was 18″ kerbawy, the rack attack, and probably some others i’m forgetting at the moment.
friday the guys went golfing. it was my first outing of the year. needless to say it was a little rough. but there were bags of beer so it was all good. pat found a turtle, smeagol was himself, dr had to golf with randoms since i joined the party, and i wore jeans.
friday night was a chaotic night for the cougar. we went to some street of bars in orlando which was really cool. burke made me take a shot of sambuca. i haven’t had sambuca since paris when mike got the idea that we should snort it, burn it, and suck it through a straw. i must say, it’s better mikes way than in shot form.
the wedding was saturday. the ceremony was entirely too long – an hour and a half. since three of us weren’t invited to the reception, we went to dr’s new favorite restaurant, sam snead’s, and joined the party after. the reception was a good time but should have lasted longer. there was plenty of dancing (mikey performed the scorpion and the paintbrush), going commando interfered with enrique, delicious canoli’s, and good times for all.
we took the party back to embassy suites after. it was jennay’s birthday so smeagol got her a cake. we would have preferred he got her a keg. the after party got excited when burke spilled a bottle of wine on himself and disrobed, showing his incredible burn from sitting poolside all day. at least he discovered that tea and wine are a wonderful mix.
the amato clan headed to the disney parks on monday. lil ced hooked us up with some discount tickets. we went from the animal kingdom (a glorified zoo in my opinion. at least it had a good roller coaster), to universal studios (the tower of terror is overrated), to epcot. epcot is mikey’s fav. and rightly so. they have a bunch of different countries represented there and we took tours of most of them. china is the best. france has a personal significance for me and germany for dr since he’s planning on austria next year.
we took over 1000 pics combined. you can see most of them on my flickr page and a nice selection on facebook.
remember that time pants cooked the food you like, hosted the tailgate, let you stay over night, visited you too often at school, learned how to text, took you to practice, made you feel uncomfortable when asking you about a gf or bf, cried when you left home, loved you more than should be possible. you probably do. cause it happens everyday.
