What does one need after all that traveling and vacation? Well more vacation obviously! We got back from the Bahamas and drove from Miami through the Florida Keys all the way to Key West. It was a bit cold so we didn’t ge to snorkel much, but we saw some cool animals, met some cool people and drank like fishes.
Driving the 1 was a pretty beautiful thing esp with a convertible. Gonna have to get that RV for the next trip though.
We snuck into Land Voldemort from Nassau for new years. It was pretty amazing.
We originally planned on a 2 week long RV road trip through the Florida Keys. But the whole RV thing didn’t quite work out. So last minute, we changed our trip completely. We decided to save the keys till the end of the trip and went from Florida directly to the Bahamas. We had a different kind of white Christmas with all those white sandy beaches and Junkanoo.
Puja made star wars polenta cakes!
and Mickey Mouse pancakes. But we all know Mickey isn’t as cool as Star Wars.
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Awwww. Ain’t she the sweetest.
I ‘borrowed’ some pictures from my mom a while back and finally got around to scanning them in. These are some of my all time favorite pictures.
My mom & dad in Korotla, India back in the day.
My mom & I just a few weeks after moving to the U.S. I practically lived in that Captain America shirt.
My sister & I in the Scranton apartment prob 1985 at the latest.
Our friend’s Maggie & Taylor had us over for dinner. It’s a good thing we brought our appetites as Taylor made a Turducken. For those unfamiliar with this culinary master piece, it is a chicken stuffed into duck. Which is then stuffed into a turkey. And then stuffed into a hot stove so I can stuff it in my big fat belly.
A chicken inside a duck inside a turkey.
We had been talking about doing this for ages. Then we just kinda forgot about it but I still had it in the back of my mind. So when Puja’s birthday rolled around, I knew exactly what I wanted to do… matching tattoos!
So I surprised her by taking her to my friend Steve’s house in the afternoon. Steve is not only a friend and coworker, but he’s a great artist and he even does tattoos.
So ya, we now having matching doop tattoos. Team DOOP forever!
When we moved into our house, there were some plants out front. Some bushes, some other small plants. Nothing major. Which is good cause we don’t exactly have green thumbs. Our moms do most of the gardening whenever they visit. We just end up killing all our plants because of neglect. Well, all except one.
One plant out front grew almost 15 feet tall all by itself. We never watered it or did anything. It just grew and grew. It even grew through our balcony/deck. And I was afraid it was going to mess with the foundation. So I decided to chop it down this weekend. It had to go.
While getting ready to start playing lumbar jack, I discovered we had more than just a tree to deal with. There was a hummingbird nest in the tree. And not just one, we had two humming bird nests hidden in our tree.
I didn’t want to disturb these nests. But the tree had to go. So after some finagling, I was able to chop the tree down but keep the nests in place and unharmed. The branches they are attached to grew through the deck planks and now are suspended in mid air below the deck. Our hummingbird neighbors now have a very original tree house.
It’s been way too nice out to not have any fun. So we went for a quick lil getaway this weekend to Santa Cruz. We hit the beach board walk for some roller coaster & ferris wheel action. And of course some funnel cake!
