Last Minute Jetsetters!

C: “I’m so excited to go to the Caribbeans!”

D: “It’s not the Caribbeans, it’s Caribbean.”

C: “No, it’s the Caribbeans!”

An hour later…

D: “You know that really famous movie with Johnny Depp? Where he’s on a ship…What’s that movie called again?”

C: “Titanic? Oh wait, that wasn’t Johnny Depp. That was Leo DiCaprio. Umm…Pirates of the Caribbean?”

D: “AH HA! See! It’s Caribbean!” 

C: “OMG. You’ve just enlightened me. It’s Pirates of the Caribbeans!!!!”  

D: “You’re just like Stewie from Family Guy (sigh).” 

(Note*: My whole life I've thought Caribbean(s) was plural!!! In any case...) 

For reference, if you haven’t seen the Family Guy episode with Stewie and his “Cool HWHIP”: 

Yakka, yakka, yakka! <Insert knee slap and cheese grin here>  
Okay, seriously, guys. We have some BIG NEWS.

Wait for it….

Wait for it….

We’re going to the Caribbeans islands next month!!!! AHHHHH!!! So one of Daniel’s best friends forever invited us to a 7 night cruise next month that leaves out of Florida and hits up: Cozumel, Haiti and Jamaica! EEEK! We’re sooooooooooo excited to go! It’s on Royal Caribbeans “Oasis of the Seas” which is one of the largest cruise ships worldwide. (It even has an onboard ice skating rink…TOO COOL OMACAAAA) The ship accommodates over 5,000+ passengers and has rock climbing walls and surf simulators!!!! AHHH!!!!

I need to CALM.IT.DOWN. I'm definitely not a newb to cruise trips (been on about 4 already), but this is Daniel's first time on a cruise and my first time not leaving to Mexico. (Ai ya ya!) 

We started out our healthy-slim-down-to-get-body-ready-for-our-cruise last night by hitting the gym (ran about 2.5 miles which is amazeballs for me since I hate running. Ugh.) and then ate rabbit food for dinner:

Om nom nom.

It was actually delicious after I doused it with a spicy, sesame vinaigrette that Daniel whipped up.

(Included in our delicate green salad was a head of chopped romaine lettuce, slivers of Asian pear, a creamy avocado in quarters, two hard boiled eggs sans yolk, cracked black pepper and Daniel’s secret sauce to bring to completion!)  

Gotta eat healthy to firm up this one pack, know what I mean? ;) 

Yesterday, I took my 'lil sister' from Big Brothers Big Sisters of OC to a tea party in Costa Mesa. (Scored a Groupon at Queens Bakery Cafe!) We each got to choose a pot of tea & biscuit to start (Hers: Cherry Roos, Mine: Masala Chai, and NTS: children don't like tea unless it's drowned in sugar.)
We were then presented with an array of small tea sandwiches and a combination of desserts.
Tea sandwiches compromised of:

• Cucumber Feta 
• Mint & Cheese
• Nutella and shaved Hazelnut

while mini desserts included:

• Strawberry Petit Fours
• Chocolate cupcakes with Strawberrycream Frosting
• Lemoncream Macaron! 

It may have been a combination of drinking hot tea in abnormally hot weather but while sitting there, I literally felt like a 500LB heifer going through menopause. (Hot flashes and all. And seriously?? C’mon, California…give us a break. It’s September and you’re still radiating 90+ degree heat screaming bloody Mary.)

Anyways mayonnaise, it's time to get back to work and figure out ways on avoiding more heat rashes. Peace out, friends!