Yay for family and friends visiting!

I am really tired from working so much this week, but if I can make it through my next two days of work, it will totally be worth it. Yesterday, I was able to go have dinner and play in the pool with my best friend from home, Erin Pitcher. She was out here for a few days for a convention for her job and so we decided that we wanted to meet up and just hang out for a few hours. Oh my gosh, it was sooo good to see her again! Since Erin and her husband Matt got married a couple years ago, I haven't been able to see her that much. When we were talking last night, we were trying to remember the last time we saw each other and we agreed that it was at her older sister, Amber's, baby shower last December. So it's been a while. Erin and Matt live in Iowa right now because Matt is going to med school in Des Moines. What are the odds that Erin and I would be in Florida at the same time and be able to hang out together? It was the most random coincidence! The best part about the night was that we didn't have to feel guilty about what we got for dinner because Erin's company that she works for (Wells Fargo) paid for her hotel room and for her food. Another great thing is that instead of having to take a bus to see each other, Erin just took advantage of the fact that Wells Fargo was paying for all her accommodations and she got a rental car to use while she was here. So she came and got me at my apartment and we went to her hotel and ate at a restaurant near there and then went back to her hotel and hung out in the pool and hot tub. Erin and I haven't been able to hang out just by ourselves since I don't even remember. It was soo good to just be able to talk and catch up with each other on how things are going. I realized though that after she left, we should have gotten a picture together to have proof that we did get to see each other for a few hours yesterday. Oh well. The fact that my blog is now all cute and organized is because she showed me how to do it.
Another fun thing I am really REALLY looking forward to is that my parents are flying down here from Utah on Tuesday and so I'm going to get to spend Tuesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon with them playing in the parks and doing whatever we want to do!! I was fortunate enough to get Wednesday through Friday off and then I'm working Tuesday morning and Saturday night. They won't be getting here til around 5 on Tuesday, so I'm going to work til four and then come back to my apartment and get all my stuff ready to go spend the week with them at their hotel. I have a Main Entrance pass, as well as another pass from my Holiday discount that we are going to use while they are here. We'll have to figure out all the details of what parks we'll be going to and everything once they get here, but I am SO incredibly excited to see them.