Mutual Weirdness

Two weeks ago we went to the State Fair and these metal flowers were my impulse buy for the day. They are sitting beside my front door.

Labor Day Weekend. The holiday here in the States where you are supposed to get a day off of work to relax because you work so hard the rest of the year. And the beginning of September is a wonderful time for it as it is still quite warm out but most of the high temperatures are fading to fall. I only wish my Labor Day was so relaxing. My parents bought a small cabin at Table Rock lake in Missouri which is about 5.5 hours from where we live. They decided they wanted the entire family to travel there for the long weekend and having no other plans, my husband and I agreed. My parents and one of my sisters left early Friday afternoon. My other sister and her family were on the road by about 5:30. Since I did not get off work until 5 and still had to pack, my husband and I were not on the road until about 6:45. This put us arriving at the cabin just about 11pm. But this story starts before we even arrive. The last good sized town on the trip was called Aurora and we went through it about a...

Last week one of my cousin's messaged my sisters, myself and our mother's asking if we wanted to have a girl's night out, dinner, this coming Wednesday since we had a lot of fun the last time. So last night my mom, both my sister’s and their little girls (2 weeks and 2 years), my cousin and her mom (my aunt) head to Bricktown Brewery. They have several locations but the one in our town is still fairly new, opened just a few months back, and while I hadn’t eaten there yet I’d been wanting to. Also, Tuesday was my cousin’s birthday so we were celebrating her. Starting out we thought that going out on a Wednesday would mean the place wouldn’t be all that busy. Well, we were wrong, at least for this place. When we got there we told them we had 6 people plus a toddler and baby so we'd need a high chair and sling. They said no problem and went to push a couple of tables together. One of the girls comes back a few minutes later and tells us that the tables they were going to u...

One more cruise post, this one featuring all of the towel art on the cruise. One of the things that Carnival Cruise lines is famous for is their towel animals. Each night while at dinner, the staff turns down the rooms for the evening. When they do, they leave the schedule of events for the next day along with a cute towel animal. I took a picture of the one in our room for each night. We never really figured out what this one is. It became a toss up between an elephant and an aardvark. It's wearing the hubby's sunglasses though. A few times they would pick up items we left out and add them to the animal. A monkey hanging from the mirror. The sunglasses and necklace were mine. Hubby thinks this was a rabbit lounging on the bed. I'm not so sure, but I don't know of any other animal that has ears like that. A crab being crabby. A cute puppy. A lovely lobster. But while these were super cute, the really amazing ones came one morning when we walked...

This post is going to be all about some of the food I had while on vacation. I would go on another cruise just for the food! It was fantastic! Anything you could want to eat was likely to be found somewhere on the ship. The main buffet area was on the Lido Deck or deck 10 which happened to be the deck our rooms were on. It was also the deck with the swimming pools. The buffet had pretty much everything on it. Salad and fixings, all types of meats, pasta, breads, veggies and of course deserts. There was also a burrito bar. At the back of deck was a deli station that would make pretty much any sandwich you could want. Just above the buffet was an Italian restaurant. Out beside one of the pools was a 24 hour pizza bar and a 24 hour burger bar. So no matter what time of day you got hungry there was food you could get. And if you wanted desert instead there were soft serve ice cream machines also open 24 hours. On the 5th deck was a pub that served pub food, a salad bar where they lady...

I'm back from vacation and we had so much fun! I took tons of pictures, though not as many as I thought I did. We drove to Galveston, Texas which took us about 12 hours. We drove down the night before and then boarded the ship around noon on Sunday. The rooms are small, but that's ok because you barely spend any time in them. We were confused at first because there were only 2 small beds in the rooms that had 4 people booked in them. Turns out they have bunk beds that come down from the ceilings. Since there were only 3 people staying in our room we had them push the small beds together to form a King size and Gabby took one of the bunks. Since we had an interior room we found out very quickly that it gets very dark in the room at night. So dark in fact that we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces. We ended up leaving the light on in the bathroom with the door cracked opened. My sister found out quickly that the toilets are nothing to mess with. My niece is 2 and ...