30 Days of Books: Day 27

Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!

If a book contains Vampires, Wizards, Witches, Ghosts or Murders I will read it! I just like things that are supernatural, paranormal or mysterious. For me its only worth reading if they are gonna keep you guessing, with a few exceptions of course ;)

30 Days of Books: Day 26

Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending

Happened for me at the end of Twilight... I HAD to know what happened next! I remember the night I finished it very clearly it was probably around 3am, I had just read it straight through, and I ran over to my back door neighbor turned BFF (its ok shes a night owl like me) and begged her for her copy of New Moon! I think I read both books in a 24 hour peiord and the other 2 in the
next 24 hours LOL! It was the FASTEST I've ever read a series. :)

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In

I know... I'm late... its not my fault... honest ;) Work was long and well... long today. :P It's my 9 to 5 day today and then we went out to eat at the casino (Beau Rivage) to celebrate "Surviving my first week back as a working woman" LOL! I even had a glass of wine to celebrate it well... don't worry, I'm not preggers... and thats for sure... Im sad to report that Aunt Flo showed her ugly ass face this week yesterday :P Oh well... next month is a whole other month of trying I suppose, if I want to look at the bright side LOL!

1. Aside from no deployments, what is one thing you would want to make the MilSpouse life “perfect”? submitted by Oh How Delightful

Oh... lets see... I could really do with out the "Oh, and honey... BTW... I have to work this weekend" said by my hubby on a Friday night :P Or... yeah on Monday I'm going TDY to Hawaii and I cant take you guys along... :P

2. Just how many peppers did Peter Piper pick? submitted by Married into Army
A peck? A pack? A Pip? LOL!

3. If you could have any career in the world with nothing holding you back, what would you do? submitted by It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To
Oh I'd love to be a photographer for National Geographic... man that would be a dream come true! Travel the world and take beautiful picture of it! Orrrrr... when I was younger I always wanted to be a Reconstructive Art Historian... that's the person who gets to actually clean and maintain fine works of art like the Mona Lisa... they are very skilled and very VERY responsible. And then I would always want to own my own book shop or Tattoo Studio :D

4. Do you have a service oriented tattoo and if so what is it. If you don’t what would you get? submitted by The Squid’s Accomplice

I don't yet... but I really want to get one to represent hubs. I just haven't decided what... its kinda funny because today I felt the "ink itch" hit me really bad... I'm glad I'm working again that way I can finally support my tattoo habit again... besides its about that time... need to get one while were here in MS. I have tattoos from every state I've lived in ;)

5. Imagine a block of time has opened up in your busy day for you to take a class in anything you like. What subject would you choose? submitted by To The Nth
Oh I'd love to take a pottery class or a yoga class :D

30 Days of Books: Day 24

Day 24 – Best quote from a novel

ZOMG! there is soooo many! How can I blog about just one?! Truth is... I can't! So here's a
few that I love.

"If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down-or cheeks up"
-Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy"
-Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"Sookie, my little bullet-sucker... Eric, my big bullshitter"
-Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"Hey, our hair's the same color, I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, girlfriend!
Eric grinned at me"
-Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

30 Days of Books: Day 25

Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack

Well, I am about 3/4th's of the way through my last book in the Candy Shop Mysteries by Sammi Carter. I have to say that I have really enjoyed reading this series and am kinda sad that the series will be over for me, but I will keep them on my book shelf for rainy day reading :)

Up next for me will be The Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series by Jenn McKinlay. She currently has two books out in the series which are; Sprinkled with Murder (Book # 1) and Butter Cream Bump Off (Book # 2).

After that I would like to try The Tattoo Shop Mystery Series by Karen Olson. And then its just a few other randoms of my list of "To Read's" :)

30 Days of Books: Day 23

Day 23 – Most annoying character ever

Its by far "Karen" the cousin that works for "Abby Shaw" in Sammi Carter's books
The Candy Shop Mysteries. Abby is the shop owner/boss lady, Karen is her resentful,
annoying and bossy cousin that is employed by her. She does put in her time working
for Abby but she makes sure she "earns" every penny of it when she gives Abby her
two cents...which is constantly. There is nothing I hate more than someone looking over your
shoulder and telling you what to do, espeically when you know your the one in charge.

30 Days of Books: Day 22

Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)

Id have to say Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger! They were hilarious when they were younger you could see or rather read the tension between the two... and now... well, lets just say I told you so! Haha! They are aweosme though, they are probably my two favorite characters in the whole series :D

I'll never forget Ron in his auntie Tessie's dress robes and when Hermione turned her self into a cat with polyjuice potion LOL!

Just a Working Girl

Phew! You may or may not have noticed but... I have been working these days. I started my new job on Monday and so far its been good! I like the people I work with and its a nice job. Its been a little hectic and all being the "New Girl" but I am slowing working my way through their system and protocols...hopefully in a week or 2 I will be much better. I HATE being the "New Girl" but every body has to start some where right? Its been nuts around the house too trying to adjust to working and being gone all day. The house has suffered a little but not too bad... I am doing laundry as I type this LOL! And I know I will have to play catch up some this weekend... but I am glad to be back to making money and being worth something... Today was the kiddo's first day back to "daycare" since I did my school stuff last year, and it went well. It helped alot that she went to day care at a friend's house. I really cant wait for her to start school this fall. So yeah... I just wanted to give you all an update on life. Hope your lives have been a little less chaotic than mine... :D

30 Days of Books: Day 20 & 21

Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)

I think you all know by now my favorite fiction relationship is between Eric Northman and myself, uh I mean sookie stackhouse! Oppps! LOL! Silly Jess! I think the best books in the series that
"describe" their relationship is book # 4 "Dead to the World" and book # 7 All Together Dead.
Charlaine really heats it up! ;)

30 Days of Books: Day 19

Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)

Not that I judge books by thier covers or anything ;) Buuuuuuttttt.... This is my all time favorite... and let's be honest... its what made me buy the book LOL! Why? Because it looked like a comic book ;) And I just knew this was gonna be a good tale... I was pleased to know I was right!

Laissez Le Bon Temp Rouler !!!

Meaning... "Let the good times roll!" And that's exactly what we did on Saturday! We went to our first Mardi Gras parade of the season. I seriously, no SERIOUSLY LOVE this time of year down here in what I like to call "Cajun country" the weather is beautiful, the out door cooking starts, the food smells amazing and the people are so friendly. I swear if I could have chosen a birth right I'd have made myself been born a Cajun ;) Cause they sure know how to have a good time! The parade was awesome, we watched some of the brightest and most colorful floats go by and throw us TONS of trinkets, while we danced away to Zydeco music. We spent just about all afternoon hanging out in Ocean Springs, its a seaside city just over the bridge from Biloxi, its also the city I will be working in starting tomorrow. We also have a another parade next weekend in D'Iberville which is also over another bridge but in the opposite direction, Biloxi is a Peninsula ;) And then next month we are going to NOLA for my birthday! This year it just happens to fall right after Fat Tuesday, so it should make for an awesome time but just enough time to pass for the "tourists" to leave ;) Not that I consider myself a "local" or a "tourists" I am some where in the middle... but if you asked me to stay here permanently I would in a heart beat! Anyway here are a few pics I took from the parade before my camera died lol. Enjoy and remember, Laissez Le Bon Temp Rouler!!!

I took this Saints one for my dear friend Ashley WHO DAT! ;)


The Ocean Springs High School Band :D (Yes, I used to be a band geek)

The Kiddo dancing with her Daddy to the Zydeco music :)

Mr. T Ain't got nothing on this girl! ;)

Two whole grocery bags full of "throws"... and this was after we gave two arm fulls away to our neighbors down the street! :D

30 Days of Books: Day 18

Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book

"A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive,
Which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky,
The very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen.
Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up.
One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on,
Not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous,
not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's
scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles,
Nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched
by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people
meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and
saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!"

Which is from Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone.
Because it all started with the boy who lived! It's
what basically got me hooked, because you know if they
let you in on the secret from the start, it's bound to be a good
book/series. ;) I really love the book, and its my favorite out of
the series... because it goes through how it all began, there
is just something that gets me when Harry heads off to
Hogwarts for the first time. I can't wait till the munchkin is
old enough to read these... I hope that she will be into them
just as much as I am :)

30 Days of Books: Day 17

Day 17 – Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)

To be honest... I haven't read many short stories or novella's... I guess I just prefer full fledged
novels lol. I have read a few books that have had a collection of ghost stories in them, I have also
raed Southern Vampires a collection of tales by Karyn Kay Zweifel and then there is Charlaine Harris's Touch of Dead which is her sookie novella. I loved it because it filled in a few gaps I had in sookies life.

"Mrs. So and So is Driving me Crazy!"

*WARNING THIS IS GOING TO BE A BIT OF RANT.*

I just don't understand mothers that can't take care of their children on their own for a measly 8 hours... I really cannot fathom how it's so hard for you without your husband right by your side while he is just at work... espeically when your a military wife! I have a bit more understanding for civilian women, but I honestly believe you should be able to take care of your child by yourself for 8 hours. I'm not talking about being a single parent... I AM talking about actually physically & emotionally caring (feeding, changing, bathing, playing etc) for your baby while your husband is at work for the day! Granted it might not always be pretty but welcome to motherhood. I completely understand that having your husband around all day makes things a heck of a lot easier like... getting a moment to shower, cooking while not having to hold baby, or having errands to run while not having to cart around a giant car seat while baby sleeps. I totally get it! Trust me... But I do think you should be able to wipe baby's butt, feed, bathe and keep baby entertained all while hubby is doing something else. These women who cant take care of their children with out their husbands being right there to hold their hand while doing these things drive me BATTY! You have been doing these things for months... why all of a sudden are you overwhelmed when he has to leave for the day to go back to work?

Its really just one person in particular who is driving me nuts lately about this... I just don't understand it! How can you be this way?! I know that being a new mom is intimidating, a little nerve wracking, and sometimes down right scary.... but... it shouldn't be anything you cant handle... or at least not make public on facebook that you cant handle it. I mean he's at work! He'll be home in 8 hours! He's not deployed! He's not even TDY! GET OVER IT!

I guess it peeves me because I know women who have have given birth without their husbands because because they have been deployed, women who's husbands who have been deployed while they gave birth and didn't have hubby home till 6 months after the babies were born, I have known women who have been pregnant, did a PCS (by themselves) and then given birth to babies in their new city that just happens to be 3,000 miles away from their nearest friend or relative! I even know a women who has given birth to twin babies in a foreign country, while her hubby is deployed (Amy your amazing! I dunno how you do it!) My point is... I think "Mrs. So and so" should really be able to handle 8 freakin hours with out her husband telling her what to do with her baby. Your a mother now... you have given birth, you have endured 3 months so far, you CAN handle it! Stooooop bitching about how you cant! What's gonna happen when "Mr. So and so" has to go TDY or god forbid for you a deployment? What are you gonna do then?

I cannot attest to having my maternal instinct come to me naturally... I had to earn mine... but I firmly believe all women have it, "Mrs. So and so" just needs to use it!

Sorry for the rant guys... but this is building up in me... and I really needed to get it out. I think it tends to get under my skin a little more than most things because I would give anything to have a baby to look after again. Babies are hard work there is no doubt about it... but they are so worth it! I guess its just aggravating to see someone who doesn't appreciate a labor of love, when I do but cant have it.

Anyone else know a Mrs. So and so that's driven them nuts? If so how did you get them to shut up? LOL!

30 Days of Books: Day 16

Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry


My favorite collection of poetry is from Jim Morrison (yes, the lead singer to the doors)

I have his book Wilderness which kinda like a memoir of lost poems. His poetry is amazing
and beautiful, I first discovered it while I was in high school.

My other favorite poet is Steven J. Javan he has a collection of poetry in books called; Something
to Someone, A Heart Full of Love, Meet Me Halfway and Footprints in the Mind.

I also love classic poetry by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Willaim Butler Yeats, and William Shakespear.

They have all inspired me at one point or another while writing my own poetry.

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In

1.What is your favorite MilSpouse blog (not including Wife of a Sailor who we all love, or your own)? submitted by Our Crazy Life (Wifey note: whaaaat? You can’t say my blog? No fun! LOL, just kidding)

That's easy! Its all the ladies that I have buttons for on my blog and even then some... there are some that don't have buttons but I love their blogs and they know it! :D

2.What are your favorite perks about your s/o being deployed (we all know there are perks)? submitted by Ramblings of a Marine Wife

Well, we haven’t exactly been through a deployment yet… he has been deployed but they have been quick (as in a few weeks to maybe 2 months) humanitarian missions or other type stuff. And I’d have to say the perks I like are being able to pick the restaurants where I want to go eat out at… usually hubby and I have to rock, paper, scissors each other to the death to see who gets to pick the restaurant, I like being able to do it heehee! I also like not having worry about the housework or doing the extra laundry while he’s gone ;)

3.How long did you date your before getting engaged? Married? submitted by Utterly Chaotic

Hmmm… did we really date? It’s kinda funny because I don’t really consider us having dated. We have known each other since we were able to crawl to each other and we kinda fell out of touch during high school and college. Later though we found each other through the internet and started “talking” again through that… the rest is just history ;)

4.What do you think your would do if s/he wasn’t in the military? submitted by Adventures of M-Squared

He’d be a “white hat” or what we call an ethical hacker or work on computers. He is VERY much a NERD/GEEK. I’m still pretty sure he would end up working for the Government in some way or another… CIA, FBI… etc. Ya, know the show Chuck on NBC? Comes on Monday nights? That in a nutshell is my husband’s fantasy life ;) He feels he is the “real life” Chuck Bartowski. He even worked for Geek Squad at one time just like Chuck works for the Nerd Herd LOL!

5.If you could talk to the Secretary of (fill in your appropriate branch) what is one suggestion you would like to bring to their attention in order to improve the lives of military families? submitted by My Life as His (Air Force) Wife

End the Korean hardship tour… a year is definitely waaaaay too long when you have a family. I have to be honest and say that I’d take a deployment over him being gone to Korea for a year any day of the week. Either end it or make it more spouse and family friendly.

30 Days of Books: Day 15

Day 15 – Your “comfort” book

Ahhh, that would be Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose. I first read this book while I was a freshman in high school and have loved it since. This book has gotten me through many things over time and I will always come back to it when I need it. Its a story about a girl (Sarajean Henry) growing up to be a woman in the 1970's. Sarajean is raised by hippies and comes to age in a world of drugs and poverty.

Book Review: Chocolate Dipped Death by Sammi Carter

*WARNING: CONTAINS A FEW SPOILERS*

There's no use sugarcoating it-no one in Paradise can stand Savannah Horne. The former local girl is now the trophy wife of a ridiculously wealthy businessman. And she's swept back into town just in time to enter Divinity's Tenth Annual Confectionery Competition-and stir up trouble. But someone bent on sweet revenge will guarantee that Savannah won't make it out of Paradise alive, trapping Abby in a case sticker than her gooey taffy.

Blackmail, deceit, poisoned candy and a hit and run Oohh My!!!

I liked this book alot. It was an enjoyable read and I liked the way the murder was conducted, it was a well thought out process. The killer was a bit cliche, however I did like the underlying true identity to the murderer's character. I also liked how "Karen" the cousin to "Abby" got her turn in the hot seat for a while during this book. I'm not sure what it is about her, but she gets under my skin a little, so seeing her in some hot water felt a little satisfying. ;)

I felt there was a few unnecessary side plots though that deviated from the track of the book. For example when "Abby's" niece gets her tongue pierced and "Abby" has to go with "Dana" to tell her father what she did. Did we really need a whole chapter to tie family drama together?

I did like how the last few chapters really had me on the edge and wanting to race to the end, espeically after chapter twenty. The dramatic ending was also very well played out. So far I find this book has the best ending in the series. It's very suspenseful and adventurous.

This book did leave me with a few questions at the end though; For example, where the heck was "Jawarski" when "Abby" needed him? and how exactly were "Miles" and "Jason" connected in "Miles's" past? I guess we'll never know...

A few of my favorite quotes from the book are...

"I launched into my speech, it took me a few seconds to realize that the only one listening was max (the dog) but at least he had the good manners to stop chewing the toilet brush and pay attention."

"The only way out of this was to figure out a compromise they could both live with. Maybe I could convince Miles and Savannah to forgo the public apology if I met them over coffee. Maybe I could convince Evie to stop crying foul. And hey! After that maybe I could spin straw into gold!"
--There is also a wee little typo on page 66. It should read Evie Rice not Evie Rich. :)

30 Days of Books: Day 14

Day 14 – Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)

When I was younger my hero was Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia. She had great ideas and wonderful imagination... she was the best friend I always wanted.

Now one of my favorite characters is Novalee Nation, imagine... being 17 years old, eight and half months pregnant and your boyfriend abandons you at Wal-Mart in the middle of Oklahoma, you haven't a penny to your name and have no where to go... that is the beginning of Novalee's life in Betti Lett's "Where the Heart is" Novalee is amazingly strong spirited and is set on beating the odds despite everything she is up against.

What I find interesting is that both of these are such good books that they turned them into movies. I have read both books before the movies were made and have a picture of my own Leslie Burke and Novalee Nation in my mind, but both characters were played by awesome actress's. AnnaSophia Robb plays Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia and she also plays Opal in Because of Winn-Dixie, which happens to be another favorite children's book of mine. Natalie Portman plays Novalee Nation in Where the Heart Is.

30 Days of Books: Day 13

Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)

Oh where do I start?! I guess I'll start with childhood books, my two favorite were;
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.

And when I got a little older I started reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps & Fear Street Series.
I also loved books by Richie Tankersley Cusick (like "The Mall" which I STILL own a copy of), Christopher Pike and Ann M. Martin's the Baby Sisters Club.

Emotional Wreckage and Picking Up the Pieces

I am done... I'm over it. I'm so tired of wasting my energy and focusing on a goal that feels like its never gonna happen. I'm sick to death of worry about it daily. I know what your thinking... then just let it go? All I can say is that its not that easy, its not that I cant... I just don't feel like I was ready. Reality is setting in and I just cant take any more, I'm tired of wishing on stars and living on hope.

What exactly am I referring to?

I got a call from Dr. "X"'s office today... they went ahead (without my permission) and contacted Tricare to get my surgery (and that's exactly what the nurse called it) approved. They also had the nerve to already schedule my pre-op appointment with Dr. "X" and the hospital. I have not been this flaming mad in a long, long time. I think what pisses me off is that I told them I didn't want to do this, that I felt I needed more time and we needed to do more testing before we just cut me open and look at all my less than perfect insides. So now I need to call the office tomorrow and talk to Nurse "Z" and ask her why her head is stuck up her ass, and why the heck she would schedule all this without my permission when I told her last week not to.

I am also taking a break, I am taking all our "collected" baby stuff, that we have recieved over the years from our family and friends in false hopes that it might magically give us the good luck we were searching for and locking them away in the attic, I just cant bare the sight of them anymore. It doesn't mean that hubby and I are not going to try, it just means that I'm no longer letting this consume me. I have a new job that I will start next week and I really need to focus all my energy on that, I need to let go and let whatever happen, happen. I am not by any means ready or happy about this but its something I've got to do. I just cant take the heartache anymore. It all just hurts to bad.

Its kinda ironic that every time I have a crisis in my life P!nk happens to come out with a brand new song that says everything so perfectly about the way I feel. Low and behold she has done it again with her new song Fu*king Perfect... every bit about this song is EXACTLY the way I feel tonight and the past year. :sigh:

P!nk: Fu*king Pefect
(copyright to P!nk and all rights reserved)

Made a wrong turn
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
That’s alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, missundaztood
Miss “no way it’s all good”
It didn’t slow me down
Mistaken
Always second guessing
Underestimated
Look, I’m still around…

Pretty, pretty please
Don’t you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
Fu*kin’ perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You’re fu*kin’ perfect to me

You’re so mean
When you talk
About yourself
You are wrong
Change the voices
In your head
Make them like you
Instead
So complicated
Look how big you’ll make it
Filled with so much hatred
Such a tired game
It’s enough
I’ve done all i can think of
Chased down all my demons
see you same

Pretty, pretty please
Don’t you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
Fu*kin’ perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing

You’re fu*kin’ perfect to me
The world stares while i swallow the fear
The only thing i should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in lying and I tried tried
But we try too hard, it’s a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cuz they’re everywhere
They don’t like my genes, they don’t get my hair
Stringe ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?

Ooh, pretty pretty pretty,
Pretty pretty please don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less then, fu*kin’ perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like you’re nothing you’re fu*kin’ perfect, to me
You’re perfect
You’re perfect
Pretty, pretty please don’t you ever ever feel like you’re less then, fu*king perfect
Pretty, pretty please if you ever ever feel like you’re nothing you’re fu*king perfect to me

Valentines Day Corvette Cruise to Hammond Louisiana

Yesterday was pretty much our celebration of V-Day. Hubby, the munchkin and I took a drive to Hammond Louisiana with the corvette club that hubby belongs to. Yes, he belongs to a car club... don't laugh... I'm serious! LMAO! I told you he was uber geeky about things ;)

Anyway... we had a good time up until we didn't get out food. We went to a place called Catfish Charlies. It was a nice place on the bayou that serves catfish and seafood. Don't get me wrong, the food was good once we got it... but waiting over an hour and half for it did not keep me smiling the whole time. In all fairness we did meet two other vette clubs there. However, when people who came in and sat down after we did started eating their meals and getting done before we even had ours... got us a little steamed up. And not only did we wait FOREVER for our food we also paid a fourtune! Hubbs had the large fried shrimp dinner which consisted of 8 fried shrimp and french fries. I had the small fried shrimp dinner (can you tell we're not catfish eaters) which consisted of 4 shrimp and french fries. I ordered a side of extra fries for the kiddo because she was going to split the shrimp with her daddy and then we ordered gator bites as a appetizer which were a total of 6 gator bites. Our bill at the end of the meal came to $52.63! It was the most expensive crap restaurant we have ever ate at! I think we could have ate for cheaper at red lobster! And after waiting over an hour and half for food, you would think we would get at least the appetizer for free... but no! So needless to say that was our first and last trip to Catfish Charlies. After lunch we stopped in Slidell, LA and did our normal mall rat thing and took the kiddo to Toy-R-Us, since we don't have one within a 20 mile radius. Yes, I have to take her to either that one or the one in mobile... they have NO toy stores here in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. :( So her getting to there was pretty much a big treat.

Here's some of the pics I took from the cruise there and back.

This is our car club group that went there were about 5 vettes in front of us, 4 behind us and 6 others that went through the light already. It was pretty cool to ride down I-12 in a pack ;)

Fun Fact: County's are called Parish's down here but, only in Louisiana

The kiddo munching on a Gator Bite. Yes, that would be fried up Alligator Tail. And before you knock it... try it! Its delicious! Even my picky eater eats it!

See! It even looks like a little chicken nugget. It tastes kinda like chicken too but with just a little difference... its like that one time where mom slipped you liver on your plate for dinner and called it steak?... yeah, kinda like that but better. Its really a delicacy both in Louisiana and Mississippi. The ones we had yesterday were good but small. :(

Hanging out in a rocking chair on the back porch over looking the bayou.... ahhh... I love it down here.

I saved the best for last... Only in Louisiana can you get alcoholic beverage to go! Yes, that sign does indeed say Daiquiris Drive Thru! For just $6.00 you can get a 32 oz (7-11 Slurpy size) daiquiri to go! They come in a variety of flavors like wild cherry, pina colada, grape, watermelon and of course strawberry. Fun Fact # 2: You CAN actually drink while driving in both Louisiana and Mississippi you just CANT be over the legal limit and intoxicated. Not that I by any means promote drinking and driving I just find it interesting... and wonder statically how many accidents were cause because Cletus spilled his beer at a red light LOL! ;)