12/1/13

Thanksgiving Vacation

Huck’s Birthday

My four day weekend started Wednesday at 2PM. I practically ran out of the office screaming “I’m free!!”.

Wednesday was Huck’s birthday, and I was happy to be off early to celebrate. We started the birthday celebration at TBC, of course!

Our celebration continued to downtown Abacoa for Food Trucks and drinks at Das Biergarten with some friends. We were home fairly early. 

Turkey Day

For Thanksgiving, we went to our friends Nate and Sue’s house for dinner. Nate smoked a turkey while Sue whipped up so amazing sides.

 

I brought Butter Corn Casserole, Beer Bread Rolls, and Cranberry Cheesecake. The Cranberry Cheesecake turned out really good. I followed SkinnyTaste’s recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake, but substituted strawberries for leftover cranberry sauce. 

EG and Laura’s visit- Friday and Saturday

Friday, EG and Laura drove over from Tampa to spend the night. We went to Square Grouper and Dive Bar for dinner. Saturday, we took them to Berry Fresh for breakfast and Loggerhead Marine Life Center to check out the sea turtles.

Did you know Juno Beach has one of the most active nesting beaches in the world? I didn’t either.

The turtle below was going for his weekly weigh-in.

Each turtle has a little information posted about his condition, treatment, size, and age. The turtle below was found floating on his left side, and he was very anemic and hypoglycemic. He had a large, old, scare on his back from a boat propeller. He’s doing better since he arrived at the center.

He also went to the Juno Beach Pier.

The wind and waves were crazy.

While walking on the pier, some “kids” caught a 5 foot shark.

And people wonder why I don’t go swimming in the ocean…

It made me very sad to see the way the people treated the shark. They were taking pictures holding it and flipping it off. While holding it, they keep dropping it, and the shark was trying his best to get away. I secretly wanted the shark to whip around and bite everyone of them. Nothing serious. Just an F U from the poor defenseless shark.

EG and Laura left around 2PM, and Huck and I left for his homebrew competition at Roxy’s in West Palm.

Huck entered two beers into the competition and came in 2nd and 3rd. He was beat by a Blueberry Porter. He wasn’t very happy about “being the first and second loser”. I’m super proud of him for placing, twice!

There were large TV’s setup outside Roxy’s playing the UF vs FSU. We were watching the end of the UGA vs Tech and Bama vs Auburn game at a local restaurant/bar. The place went crazy when Auburn scored at the very end of the game. It was AMAZING!!! Oh and UGA won too. It was a great day!

12/16/12

I just really like Christmas!!

Last night we dressed up and headed out of SantaCon in Downtown West Palm Beach. SantaCon is a pub crawl like the Zombie Crawl we did a few months ago. The Zombie Crawl started at 6PM. I thought that was really early. Well, SantaCon started at 3PM!!

I made my own costume. I purchased a green shirt and leggings, and used a Dollar Store tree skirt and Dollar Store ornaments to decorate my shirt. I even added gifts. My purse for the night was made with a piece of extra ribbon,  a Dollar Store stocking, and hot glue. I think I may use it until Christmas.

Huck’s costume was not homemade. He went the funny route.

That’s my Husband!!

I had to stop and buy some D batteries for my lights (Yes! D!! I was able to power the car, too!) I wasn’t excited about walking into CVS wearing my outfit and planned what I would say if anyone asked me about it before we got there.

Old Man: “Why are you dressed up?”

Me (With way to much enthusiasm) “I JUST REALLY LOVE CHRISTMAS!!”

Old man turns and looks other way.

Me: Laughing “ I’m just kidding. SantaCon”

Old Man says nothing!

Our Christmas Group!

The one thing I didn’t like about my outfit, I had to wrap the skirt around me 2 times and the thick material made my mid section look twice as big. Not the most figure flattering costume!! 

Alex was wearing pants “That are smaller than mine!” He was probably right, too.

I lost a bunch of ornaments walking down Clematis. I even lost my star!!  

All and all, it was a fun night! The worst/funniest part was the walk back to the car. We ended our night at Bradley’s, but our car was parked on the other side of Clematis. We had to walk over half a mile through Clematis on a Saturday night. We didn’t have our SantaCon group with us, so we just looked like freaks. And Huck was wearing a Bathrobe. We got some looks! A few people got it, but most just thought he was crazy. By the time we got to the parking deck, I was laughing so hard, I was crying. 

Now, I’m off to continue working for free!! Maybe one day I’ll make money!! 

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