"Illinois Chad" Visits Florida

My old friend, Chad Eike, drove from Illinois and stayed with me for a few days in Florida during the Memorial Day weekend. I showed him around the area and he was also able to meet most of the people I hang out with these days.






Chad drove from Illinois at around 4:00am and ended up at my place at 1:00am the following day. He was full of energy at this point after knocking on the door at this hour!






It's still the same morning...only brighter...and my hair is wet...and chad can actually read his MapQuest directions.






We met up with Julie because she usually knows where the party is at, and sure enough she had directions that led us strait to Stacy's party at some hotel across from Universal Studios. Jeffery was nice enough to let us in since Stacy was too busy being popular or something.






Then Stacy surprised me.....






.....she got me SPIDER-MAN 3 FLOATIES!






Unfortunately, I forgot my trunks and didn't have a change of clothes, but that didn't stop me from trying them out.






Stacy raised her fist in anger at me because I probably wouldn't go in the pool, but luckily she wasn't that mad since she seems to be in a smiling mood.






Time to jump in the pool!






Stacy warms up by doing some lay up drills.






Chad watches from afar and is impressed with Stacy's hustle.






Rebekah and Julie took their hustle to the next level raced across the pool to see which one would have to take out the trash when they get back home. It's the only way the trash ever gets taken out at their place.






Ray couldn't believe he was allowed in the pool area since he took a wild guess that the password was, "Stacy Pyles is way cooler than Brian Hogan."






Marcus and Christian broke in without saying the password, but I'm pretty sure Marcus knows it since he's always yelling it in my face.






Stacy and I blow up the Spider-man 3 floaties.






We can only blow up the floaties halfway because they wouldn't be able to slide onto my massive guns.






The ladies couldn't stop checking me out as I chilled in the kiddie pool, and I was almost certain it was because of my massive guns...not because I'm 26-years-old with Spider-man 3 floaties in a kiddie pool.






Then everyone surrounded me with dangerous water weapons, but I still kept my cool and flexed my guns.






After flexing my guns around the pool for several hours Stacy pulled out her own gun and told me to give it a rest.






Ray started to fight Christian in the pool.....






.....and then he noticed I was close by and was looking a little too dry, so I ran away flailing my massive guns left and right.






Christian pulls out a deadly water weapon and attempts to soak the camera, so once again I ran away flailing my massive guns left and right.






Then Christian and Theresa had a water weapon shoot off since I kept running and flailing several times around the pool.






Stacy attempted to try some synchronized swimming since it didn't seem like it was that hard to do.






Her second attempt was much more graceful and I consider her to be a synchronized swimmer in my book.






Marcus and Christian relax on the sidelines for a while.






While Stacy and Ray pull Melissa away because her time over at the wall is up.






Then Marcus was wondering when someone was going to pull him away from the wall.






It definitely wasn't going to be me since I was in charge of keeping track of the water weapons at this point in the day.






It was time to take the fun somewhere else so Rebekah and Julie followed me and Chad.....






.....but little do they know I have no idea where I was going.






We ended up over at City Walk so this place was good enough.






Ray, Melissa, Christian and Marcus all patiently waited for us.....






.....and I was given the traditional welcome punch by Ray.






Stacy kept the group together as we walked through the sea of people.






But Rebekah and Julie wanted to surf on a fake wave from a plastic sea instead.....






.....so did Chad.....






.....as did I.






After partying too much Chad and I woke up the next morning and were in front of the Daytona International Speedway.






I told Chad to stand where the arrow is pointing so I can take a picture.






Now Chad takes his own pictures, but there are no arrows to be found.






Chad walks along the beach for the very first time!






I don't know what to think of it.






The only thing Chad could think of was finding coconuts in a palm tree.






Chad and I looking out over Daytona Beach.






Chad walks towards the shore.....






.....and freezes when the water hits.






Chad didn't want to go way out into the water.....






.....but I wanted to show off that I was a big boy and didn't even need the Spider-man 3 floaties after all.






Good times.






Chad takes in the view and tries to spot Africa.






Both of us still can't believe Chad is at a Florida beach.






Now it's time for some good old fashion mini-golf in the central Florida tourist area and surround ourselves by a ridiculous amount of plastic and questionable blue water!






Chad takes the lead by making par and I suck it up as I usually do during the first few holes.






I don't trust this bridge.....






.....but we must putt through no matter what.....






.....even if we have to put in awkward positions next to fake rocks.






I was more concerned about the weird blue water flowing around the fake rocks.






Chad putts through a mysterious cave with no way of knowing what's on the other side.






I discovered the central core where the source of the mini-golf course's power comes from.






But Chad could care less about this remarkable uncovering and so he continued to play on at the next hole.






And then he was confined into yet another tricky putt against a giant fake rock.






While Chad was focusing on the game, I couldn't stop focusing on the water.






Chad takes a moment to review the score so far and seems to have no idea how close is sitting next to the dangerous water.






After the short break it's time now for him to really get into the game and not pay attention to what's flowing around.






I couldn't help but continue to cringe.






I had been so troubled from the weird blue water that I nearly forgot what we were doing, but fortunately I saw this shack and it reminded me of the main event that was taking place.






Chad sinks another one in.






I'm just about to do the same.






I didn't like this wall, but at least it wasn't a fake rock.






Chad hits his final putt for the afternoon.






Now it's time to tally up the scores and somehow I was the winner by one point.






I was going to celebrate but I ran away screaming because there was an alligator with Spider-man 3 skillz nearby.....






.....but even when I was in the clear from the Spider-man 3 alligator I still didn't feel safe next to the weird blue waterfall at the entrance.






Me and Chad didn't know what to do so we went to Downtown Disney since it wasn't too far.






Me and Chad say a quick hello to Mr. Potato Head. Who was played by our good friend, Kyle Patchin, in the never-before-released-voiceover-dubbed Toy Story...due to copyright reasons and all.






I don't care if it's a basketball, Mickey looks weird without ears.






I got in a fight with a Fantasia broom and he totally fought dirty by using it's bucket.






After the big fight I pretended like nothing happened and Chad pretended like he didn't know me.






The next morning it was time for me to head off to work and for Chad to head back on the road.






So it's time to start up the engine.....






.....and drive away!





Fin.