Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Weekends with friends!

Alright, I'm ashamed at how long it has been since I last posted, but I've been really busy entertaining okay!  The last time I wrote we were anticipating the arrival of our very best friends Jeff and Leah.  It was their 1st trip out to see us we were really looking forward to showing them around O -town.  The night they got in it was Jeff's birthday and we had decorated the house and I had a birthday cake and presents waiting for him.    On Friday the boys played golf and we had a minor incident with one of the tires on the car so Leah wasn't able to meet me for lunch, but they ended up meeting me after work downtown!  The Magic were playing that night  (they lost to Boston) but we had dance party 2 k 10 at Wall Street!  I forgot what amazing dancers Leah and I are.  She has all those fantastic photos but they are hilarious!



On Saturday we got up early and went to Universal Studios!  As usual we had a wonderful time.  It rained in the middle of the day so we went and saw Nightmare on Elm Street (K and J have a love affair with horr-or movies) in between Universal and IOA.  It worked out perfectly.  Then we went to 4 Rivers for some yummy BBQ - which is now on the Must - do list when you visit.

Sunday was truly a fun day.  We started off the day with chocolate pancakes, egg, and bacon for breakfast.  Then we headed to the outlets for a little shopping.  By then it was time for happy hour at Mucho's!  We headed to Muchos and enjoyed margaritas, chips and queso, and beer!  We came back home to grill out before we headed out for bowling.  We went to a pretty shady bowling alley in WP but had the best time.  It was guys vs girls (duh) and even after 4 pitchers of beer we (leah) totally dominated them.  Luckily the alley was pretty empty because as the games got more intense so did the things we were screaming at each other hoping they would throw a gutter ball.  After we beat them, I can't remember how badly we won because Jeff tore up our proof, but we certainly won't ever let them live that down!  Back at the Payne house, Jeff and Kyle put on an amazing rockband show complete with shout outs, requests, throwing the mic, and encores!

They left back for OK pretty early on Monday morning but we loved having them in Orlando!  We are really trying to recruit them to come live out here!  It is pretty hard to resist!  Love you guys!

So the Scott's left on Monday, Kyle left on Thursday to go to the Dominican Republic for "work" / playing 36 rounds of golf a day on the ocean, and Chris, Shannon, and PJ, arrived from NYC!
There list of things to do in Orlando basically consisted of eating at certain places (chick fa lay, sonic, chilies) so they were pretty easy to amuse!  On Friday night we went and ate at Houston's which by the way has a pretty amazing dirty martini and then ventured to the Best Western Bar, the Red Fox, where the infamous "mark and lorna" perform every weekend.  They are supposedly the inspiration behind the Will Ferrall / Ana Gasteyer "Marty and Bobbie Culp" sketch on SNL which was pretty accurate.



On Saturday we went to 310 Park South for some lunch and walked around Park Ave.  Then we went to Jeremiah's for mid afternoon delight!  And it was quite a success.  We then decided to hit up the Leu Gardens, which is a 49 (not 50 like the lady in front lied to us about) acre garden.  It was pretty just way to hot to be out there.  And we hardly saw other people in the garden which should have been our first sign.  We had a real housewives of NY photo shoot a la' Kelli Bensimon which entertained us for quite a while.

They also enjoyed 4 Rivers for dinner and then we headed downtown!  I can't possibly mention them coming to Orlando and not note that every single conversation these 3 have either includes a Glee character or the real life Glee star themselves.  Insanity.  but amusing!  They missed Kyle at the airport by 45 minutes.  and although I know it would have been even more funny if Kyle was here, we had a pretty entertaining weekend!



THANK YOU to the Scotts and NYC crew for coming to Orlando to visit.  We LOVE having our friends and family come out.  Next up is my sister, Dennis, Christian, and Cameron and we can not wait to take them to HARRY POTTER!

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