This New Year's celebration was pretty good. I had gone up to Orlando with Rob and Courtney. They were going to leave for home from there, and I was going to return home myself. Well, we got up to Orlando, and we had dinner at one of Rob's family friend's house. It was a very good dinner, and I appreciate them inviting me as a stranger to join as well. After that, we met up with Rob's friend Mike at Pointe Orlando, a nightspot on International Drive.

Courtney was not feeling very well, and she decided to stay at the hotel room. I feel kind of bad about that, but what can you do, she would not have had a good time since she was not feeling well. Sorry, Courtney.. But we had fun there. There was a band playing right through New Year's - their clock must have been off. Then, they decided to do another countdown to which I could only chant out "Happy New Minute!" heh.. On the way out, I heard that the parking garage does not charge after 1am, so on the way out, we still see ticket collectors taking payments, so I parked right at the gate for a few minutes, watching. The lights all turned red, and the collectors just started waving people through. This is when I started back up and headed out. Makes up for the one time I parked in a garage for about 2 hours, and did not notice that they were not on $1/hour mode, but on $20 flat rate mode. Ouch!

On the way back, we stop at the world's largest (and seemingly busiest) McDonald's for snackage. They had a huge menu including pitas and pizzas, all kinds of things. Wierd, I just remember pizzas from the last time I was there a few years ago. Also, they had projection LCD screens, and one had burned a hole in the LCD section, it looked pretty wierd. So we ate. Yum. Went to hotel, slept. Woke up. Hotel was not what you would call top quality. And their breakfast buffet made you wish you were at Denny's. But we survived (will check for an update later.. heh).

Then, we headed over to see Mike's new house which he had closed on two days ago. Nice. Right near all the action, too. This is where Rob and Courtney transfered all their stuff to his parents' car, and started to head back towards home, and I did the same. I tried to call some other friends in the area, but did not get through. Ah, well. Another time.

So, not that it was quite as spectacular as last year's events, I must say that I at least enjoyed myself. When later I was asked if I had gotten laid (yea, right), or kissed a girl, I had so say no, I had no girl to kiss. *sigh* Ah, well. Now I am back home, and just tired, hanging around the house - can't wait to get to work bright and early tomorrow. *NOT!*