thursday

We didn't have any games to go to and didn't fly out until Thursday night. It was shitty rainy weather and we didn't have any plans. So we decided to go to Dinosaur World. Awesome! No really! It was!! Because of the rain we were the only people there. And I learned more about dinosaurs and animals that weren't dinosaurs than I ever thought possible!

After Dinosaur World we headed to Tampa to find something to do until it was time to go to the airport. We did a drive by of Legends Field, where the Yankees play for spring training. Holy shit! Their spring training facility is huge and nicer than Comerica. I wanted to vomit.

On our way to the next undetermined destination Jesse's cell phone rang. He answered it and it was our alarm company telling him the alarm had just been tripped. He called Paula, who had been so kind as to look after Willie, Barbaro and Charlie, and she said she was at the house a half hour earlier. He called the alarm company back and told them to go ahead and dispatch the police. What a nightmare. There we were in Tampa not knowing if someone was cleaning our house out while we could do nothing about it. We did what we knew best and went to a bar. Jesse called Paula back and asked her to go back to the house to meet the police. After about 20 minutes he called the alarm company back and they said the police hadn't gone yet. I called Joanna and she checked Jesse's website. Since he serves that from home, if someone had stolen the computer it wouldn't have worked. We were relieved when Joanna said it worked. After what felt like 4 hours, Paula called Jesse and said everything was fine. All the doors were locked and the windows were closed and locked and nobody was in the house. This was at least an hour after we received the call from the alarm company. Jesse called them to tell them not to send the police. It's a good thing someone hadn't really broken in. They would have been long gone by the time the police showed up! What a pain in the ass.

I already wrote about seeing Maggs at the Apple Store. I'm still pissed that I couldn't talk to him either.

What a fun trip to Florida! We already decided next year it's Holy Land Experience and the pirate dinner show. Oh yeah!!!!!!!