Crawfish and Pizza

We attended the Porter Leath Crawfish Boil on Sunday. The weather was very nice, then it got a little rainy and cold. It had stormed that morning, but then it got really nice out, so we decided to go. We had never been, and I'm glad we went. Walking into the festival we caught the 'Crawfish Races' and saw the pounds and pounds of crawfish to be consumed. We bought the 3 lb bucket for $15 and went in the Pier restaurant and ate! I'm not totally on the eating something with eyes and all that still and breaking the tail off and going at it. I stopped every once in awhile bc it was kinda grossing me out, but Tony is a pro and ate most all of them. I ordered some fried crab stuffed shrimp off the Pier's menu and they were yummy. Brooke came out and met us after her mani/pedi at Gould's and took her up on the offer to go watch NBA Playoff's with Ray at their house. The Pier had one terrible TV in the bar area and we couldn't see it very well. I do want to come back and eat there for sure and enjoy the gorgeous view! 

After hanging out a few hours at Brooke and Ray's we were hungry again and went and had Pizza and Movie, not literally, but had some yummy pepperoni and sausage pizza. Cute little restaurant with some darn good pizza! 

Taz Day Pictures

Yes, that's the big boy that it was all in honor of!! And we did it! We raised well over the goal for Taz's eye surgery, so now there is a fund in honor of him for those waiting to have their surgery too! It was really a fun day, who would have thought, and impromptu get together selling baked good and burgers could do all this? 

Taz loves the ladies..

I said Sue looked like a Lion Tamer or a Taz Tamer

Will you buy our cookies?

With one of the Buddy Dogs..

KPAW girls

Sherry and her Family working the prize table

Butch and Perry workin' the grill

KPAW member Maggie with Eric and a new puppy

Puerto Rico-Day Five Monday Last Day and Miami Layover

I got up pretty early to get the last of the Puerto Rican Sun on Monday! I found this cool ocean animal that had washed up.

Our last picture together in Puerto Rico..we don't wanna leave....

After checking out before we left for the airport we had lunch at Drums, the salsa club/restaurant that we went to the first night. They have drums all around the restaurant that we decided to try and play. The food was really good and filling too..the last of my fried plantains!! 

I loved the fountain in the front of the Ritz Carlton..I made Tony pose in front of it. 

We actually had a long layover and met Donte' for dinner at The Pelican one of our favorite spots on Ocean Drive. There were so many people out walking down the sidewalk, the weather was perfect, I didn't want to leave there either! I love Miami...

Puerto Rico-Day Four Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday started out early for us. We had scheduled a rain forest excursion that morning and our guys were picking us up at 8am. We grabbed a good breakfast as recommended and our excursion began. EcoQuest was the tour company and I would for sure use them again, our guides Jorge and Sahid were wonderful. They gave us a lot of history on the land we were going out on.  It was a private rain forest in the San Salvador area. The people that owned the land wanted to have some extra income for their families so they got EcoQuest to run tours. The company completely came in on this land and built areas for us to hike and explore the rain forest. 

We traveled over hill after hill, barely missing a puppy that was running though the streets. Our tour guides jumped out and tried to catch the puppy, but unfortunately he was too street savvy for his own good and bit Sahid breaking skin and then running into the deep brush. Jorge said he rescues a lot of dogs in the area. I knew we had the best guides at this point. So after many more hills and incline, we arrived at the area where we would begin. After some stretching, we began our trek. 

Our group consisted of a mom and son from upstate New York and a mom, dad and son from Newport Beach, CA. Everyone was in great shape so it was a lot of fun and kept our tour moving quickly. We walked through streams that were knee deep, we climbed straight up enormous moss covered rocks. This was no walk in the park, this was major exercise. 

There were so many beautiful scenes. Waterfalls all around, lush trees and flowers. I couldn't stop taking pictures that I knew would not give this rain forest justice. 

After hiking around going up, up, up..it was time to go down. It was time to repel. I had never done this before and I was a little scared. But I will say we really felt comfortable with our guides and I knew we would be safe. It was a 100 ft drop straight down into a waterfall and then into a pool of water. Tony and I were the last to go..it was a little scary to actually to the repelling bc you have to let yourself free fall a little and that's how you actually move downward. Then all of a sudden water is coming down on you and then you are in a pool of water, it was really amazing and I wish I could have taken pictures going down, but it was too tricky. 

It's hard to tell how high this was, but this is the waterfall we repelled down. 

After repelling we hiked up hill a little more because it was time to zipline. I was scared to do this as well, but so glad we did!! What a view! Again, no camera...I wish I had one!! Gorgeous to go from mountain peak to mountain peak...I loved it! 

Here is some of the land...after 3 ziplines we had an authentic meal in the families home. To start we had fried pumpkin and bread fruit, for the main course we had white rice, beans and chicken. I ate the chicken and rice and really like it. As you can see here, they grow a lot of things themselves. 

Tony shot some hoops in the rain forest!

The pumpkin and bread fruit

Can you see the Easter Eggs they hid for their kids?

When we got home from our rain forest excursion, this who was in the lobby to greet us. 

Since our group was small our rain forest trip didn't take that long, so I got a little time on the beach. 

We had an awesome dinner that night at BLT Steak that night. I really needed some good basic American fare..I had the best lemon rosemary chicken. I can't wait to try another BLT Steak in Atlanta or Miami. 

My car got Smashed!

The Wednesday before we left for Puerto Rico, while volunteering at the Humane Society, my car got accidentally smashed! It is still this way bc I haven't had much time to deal with it. I mainly posted these for my family in Knoxville to see, my Dad is trying to offer advice. I hate dealing with car drama! 

Taz Day Sucess and 2 PIt Bull Blogs

Taz Day was a MAJOR sucess..pictures to come soon..and I found 2 Pit Bull Blogs that I just became a follower of! One is Bad Rap and the other is a Vick Dog Blog. 

Remember Taz Day Today

I baked Scottie Shortbread and Cupcakes to sell in the Bake Sale for Taz's Surgery! 10am-2pm today at the Humane Society!