Wendy's x 2

It's been a great day, we, of course, beached it, went to the moveies and did some shopping. After dinner, which was some fabulous lumpia, which I did not make but bought at the "lumpia sale" last week during the Asian Pacific celebration along with fried rice, which I did make, we decided we needed frosty's. At our first attempt we waited very patiently for a large group to place their order. I know I have been 'those' people who it seems don't know what they want, in fact you would think they had never dined in a Wendy's before ever since it took nearly 12 minutes to get their order given, then instead of going ahead and waiting on us the cashier needed to help in the cooking area. Okay, got it, it's later (9:10ish) and it is not a full staff, no worries, we all have to multi-task and pitch in when and where needed, but then the clincher comes when we go to place our order which is two small chocolate frosty's, one value fry, one large chocolate frosty. The response to our very efficiently ordered order is "oh, I'm sorry our frosty machine is broken" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, not after we just patiently waited and took silly pictures in your line trying to entertain and amuse ourselves while waiting to get our frosty's!

While we waited in line behind the 'we don't have a clue what we want' people we debated who had the darkest feet...

LilBlue also took our picture, aren't we so cute? LOL

So back to the car where we pull out our 'chatty Cathy' sometimes otherwise known as a Garmin and find the next closet Wendy's. It's 2.3 miles to the North and I even called to double check that their frosty machine was indeed working before we made the trip! Dontcha just love technology! In cases like this I most certainly do!

Arriving at Wendy's #2 we make our same order as at Wendy's #1 adding a 79c after 9 p.m. drink; get our frosty's and the definitely leaves something to be desired non fresh fries, along with the sorta flat 79c special diet coke and enjoy our late night treat

I felt we needed to document the eating of the frosty's, since we went through so much trouble to get them!

While we were waiting on MiB to get a refill on the awful 79c soda LilBlue was smelling the flowers! Not really, she wasn't but they had all these fake flowers crammed in vases sitting around so I told her to grab some and she did! It was a silly thing but the picture is cute isn't it? :) Just for useless knowledge MiB tried CokeZero rather then diet Coke for his refill it was no better, we think their machine was not up to par!

LilBlue with the pretty flowers at Wendy's

It's past my bedtime! So night, night all tomorrow's another full day. Oh but before I forget on our morning walk we saw the turtle patrol out checking for new nest, they were marking one that had 156 eggs in it, a record for the day, the average is 111. It was so cool to see all those eggs, wish I would have taken my camera!

Ewwww...the seaweed really stinks!

Last night as we walked on the beach we noticed huge amounts of seaweed washing ashore. This was quite a sight to see but off we went on to the movies anyway.

LilBlue being contemplative over the seaweed or maybe the crabs :)

So this morning as MiB and I were walking the beach (without LiLBlue as she was getting her beauty sleep) and the seaweed has come ashore with a vengeance and an odor, like puuuweee, yuk, it reeks!

The weed

I am not a seaweed snob, I know that it is part of the beach environment I just thought I should share that it smelled and there is a lot of it. I am still going to enjoy the beach, been out once already this morning and heading out again in just a little bit. You have to take advantage of being 20 paces or so from the beach and so we are!

Oh and in the seaweed there was this white stuff which we thought was coral, but then we touched it and it smushed up easily with the same texture of wax. Any ideas?

The white waxy stuff that we thought was coral...

Lastly, I leave you with her, she is quite a beauty don't you think? She was resting so peacefully this morning when we saw her, I hope she finds her way back out to sea. Maybe she's the one who brought in all the seaweed?

Off to the beach...I am gonna miss this...

Lil Blue doesn't like crabs...

We have been spending a lot of time on the beach lately. We have noticed that LilBlue does not like the crabs, any of them, she has even taken to wearing shoes on our walks so the crabs cant get her. This totally cracks me up!

This is before we saw any crabs on our walk last night!

The BIG crab

The little crab!

She likes none of them!

On our walks in the evening we have taken to picking up trash, which there is way to much of. I guess I am amazed and disgusted at the beachgoers who just do not pick up their own trash after they enjoy the beach. It is sad to see all the left behind beach toys, water bottles, beer and soda cans and numerous other items that do not belong on the beach after you have departed.

In addition to being trash picker uppers, we have been hole filler inners. See it is sea turtle nesting season here and when beachgoers did big holes in the sand (which is fine) they just need to fill them in so the turtles won't get caught in them when they come in to nest at night. We have also been knocking down some of the really big sand castles (which again are fine) but they can be a hazard to the nesting turtles. There are signs everywhere requesting beachgoers be mindful of these things but I guess beachgoers have too much sunscreen seeping into their brain and therefore cannot read said signs.

Filling in one of the craters

Oh what a week!

It's been soooo much fun this week with LilBlue here and we have been busy going to and fro and I have been meaning to take my camera but then it just doesn't happen, so boo on me! So much has gone on this week I will just fast forward to last night.

Sooooo last night it was the Asian Pacific festival, which was a luau type event and a lot of fun, there were dancers, lots of dancers and there were a group of drummers from Epcot they were really cool. MiB got to 'perform' with them!

MiB drumming...

The "real" drummers drumming :D

The different groups of dancers did not ask him to dance with him...I think he might have done better at that though as he is a great dancer! The Hawaiian dancers were my favorite, so elegant and just beautiful and natural looking in their movements.


But one of the other groups (and please forgive me I do not remember their native county) that performed several dances were so fun to watch, they were older and had several different outfits and were just fun!


It was really an enjoyable 'mandatory fun' with some tasty food, great entertainment and two of my favorite people on either side! The bonus for the night was LilBlue won the last door prize given out for the evening, which was neato in our book!!!

Tonight we will try to 'go for launch' with that Delta rocket again...

And lest they be forgotten we must do Thursday Thoughts

• I like Asian cuisine!
• The good byes train starts tonight...
  
• It's getting really hairy around here...
• LilBlue does not like crabs on the beach!
• Living ocean side is pretty darn suuuuhweeeet!

What a day!

LilBlue arrived last night and it has been nonstop. We went straight from the airport to a welcome home celebration for the 45th Space Wing Guardian Challenge team who took FIRST PLACE in the competition they were in these last few weeks. Today we went boating on the Banana River, left there and went to get take out from DaKine's eating with a great ocean view I might add, took a walk on the beach, had some ice cream and now I am pooped and ready for the bed!


This is the gang coming back from the beach walk.

Tomorrow I hope we get a breather but it may be a passing fantasy to think that, it's going to be another big week on the space coast, we'll keep you posted!

The latest...

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. Lately I have had the time to do a lot of it, I am beyond thrilled, this is my pile for this evening. I usually do the paper in the a.m. but because I was trying to get out the door this morning it had to wait. I love to read the newspaper! Last night I finished a paperback library swap book that I picked up last week at Hurburt. I am about to start another one I also picked up there and I got the rest of these today where I volunteer. I also have last weeks AF TIMES which I always enjoy reading. It let's me catch up on the latest propaganda around the Air Force. Then I picked up some other freebie magazines to occupy me this coming week while LilBlue and I are lounging on the beach. Should be fabulous. Oh, I am one happy readin' girl!



Then there are the oranges...they are my latest go to fruit! Aren't they pretty and uh, orangey! LOL I "take spells" as my grandmother used to say, cause ya see I don't think I really have a favorite fruit but I do really like fruit and I like it a lot and it seems I get onto a fruit and I eat that a lot for several days even weeks on end then I don't really eat it again for awhile so that's why I said I 'take spells' see? Anyway, that is what is happening with oranges as of late. Before oranges it was strawberries. I love strawberries!

Fruit...it does the body good!

Thursday Thoughts!

Here it is Thursday again...I feel like time is just slipping by. I guess in reality it is and it also has something to do with my new nomadic lifestyle so I should get ready to feel this way a lot over the next 15 months or so! It's like I didn't even know the date, and for a few minutes this a.m. I was not completely sure of the day of the week...yeah, okay, so that isn't so odd for me after all!

I took a long overdue beach walk this morning. It was with 'three doors down' and it was very good indeed. Something I really needed since I have been lacking with my workouts since we returned on Saturday night. We definitely got our heart rates going that's for sure! I am still trying to shed those 7#s we have already discussed. Heck, it could even be 10 now since all the travel eating I have been doing, oh me, oh my, heeeeellllp! I cannot eat like this for the next year...I have to get a better plan for dealing with maintaining my weight (well, actually taking off the extra I have, first).

Thursday Thoughts!

* I really like green beans!
* USPS is on my non favs list!
* LilBlue will be here in 48 hours :)
* Ocean views are one of the best!!
* There is NOTHING to love about 'love bugs'

Take care, I hope you have a terrific Thursday in your world!