The final piece of the ensemble is now complete. What wonders a can of silver spray paint and blue glitter can do to an old pair of sneakers!
It's just about time!
Dorothy take me home.
Carnival parade begins tomorrow promptly at 4pm.
Consumption of refreshing adult beverages begin tomorrrow promptly at 7am.
Christophene: A gourd imported from Mexico , it's eaten raw or cooked, typically to accompany a main dish. It is very watery.
Yesterday was my very first experience with a "thing" called a Christophene.
We got a bag full of them and Leanna told me to peel them and she would show Paul how they were prepared. They are kind of like a potato / apple / squash / gourd combo!
So I finished peeling the skin off all of these Christophenes and was standing there talking about the different recipes you can make with them and all of the sudden my fingers and hands starting to feel weird. Leanna said that I should have put some oil on my hands first because the fruit will dry out your skin and make your hands peel off. Thanks a bunch! It felt like that old white glue we had in elementary school that dried on your hands.
And I'm thinking to myself "Myself, if it did THAT to my hands, what in the world is it going to do to my mouth, stomach and ultimately by "back side"?????
Needless to say I did not try them. Happy Friday from Saba.
OK, so the costumes arrived and I picked mine up this afternoon. They are, to say the least, a little "skimpier" than I thought!
These are MY SHORTS with a sea horse belt that adorns them. Let's just hope that "Mr. Aquatic Ed" doesn't rear his head during the parade......
Here we have my beautiful chest harness and cape.
Tight bike shorts, seahorse themes, capes, staffs, and feathered headresseses.............. I'm in HEAVEN!!!!
My only disappointment is that the flesh colored Man-O-Shaper Unitard undergarment wasn't part of the package.
As I mentioned earlier, last night was the kick off to Carnival 2009 here on Saba and we gots lots of "give away goodies" including feather masks, Carnival T-Shirts and lighted glow sticks for the first parade of the week.
This is Paul's Godson Trevon and we got to walk (of should I say carry) together for a good part of the evening.
The night was fun although I cut is short given the fact that today started another work week for us at Tropics and I needed to get some rest.
Happy Tuesday, Happy Carnival Week and Happy Taco day at Tropics from Saba!!
Saba Carnival kicked off tonight with "Jump Up" which is kind of like the dry run for Saturday and Sunday's parade which includes the 2009 costumes
(and I'll be in it)
I went down to celebrate the start of the big week's festivities.
The photo above shows friends of ours in the 2008 Carnival celebration. More pics to come from this week, I promise!!
Happy Carnival week from Saba......
We are just getting home from Sunday Brunch at Tropics Cafe and we had a kick ass day today. We served 30 people in about 2 hours and offered homemade Belgium Waffles as one of our specials today. Other goodies included Southern Fried Chicken, Eggs Benedict and Bangers and Eggs with Cheddar cheese grits.
Now given the fact that Saba has roughly a 1,400 person population that equates to serving 2% of the island's inhabitants today. In DC terms, that would be like serving Brunch to 11,800 people!!
Now we're off until Tuesday morning and plan on having some quiet time with friends including my best friend, Absolut and Cranberry.
My trip back to the States is all confirmed. I leave Saba first thing on Tuesday, Aug. 11th and travel through Miami and then on to DC.
Luckily this time I only have to meet with our accountant and nothing else! No doctor, dentist, eye doctor, etc.
I have every full intention of celebrating my arrival to Washington with a little "late happy hour" beverage with great friends.
A quick trip to the beach is planned to spend some time with the nieces and nephew in Ocean City, New Jersey. Or, as they say in NJ, "going down the shore".
The rest of the time away will be spent doing absolutely nothing!! It will be nice to have a break from the rock and spend some "city" time...........
So I'm just curious about how I can go to sleep at night and wake up the next morning with stray hairs growing out of my eyebrows, nose and ears. It's kind of like that plant from Little Shop of Horrors that seems to grow 10 feet in ten minutes.
Tonight I was working my shift down at Tropics and excused myself for a moment to "powder my nose" and found this HUGE nose hair coming straight out! It looked like a fiber optic probe coming straight towards the mirror. To make matters worse, It WAS GREY!!
I think I can handle most things but these wild and strange growth things are really getting to me in my "soon to be elder" stage. If I find a newly found mole on my neck with long hairs growing out of it tomorrow morning I will simply have to give up!!
Happy FOLICLE day from Saba.......
So I am utterly convinced that sometimes I am completely retarted!
Yesterday afternoon I was making the (delicious, if I may say so) Vermont Maple Syrup Bread Pudding and the Walnut Pralines to crumble on top.
I'm at the stove cooking the sugar and it started to turn a little darker than normal.
So I'm thinking to myself - "Myself, this looks darker than normal"
So I give it a quick stir with a spoon, blow on it and promptly put the spoon in my mouth to taste it!
End result - What feels like 3rd degree burns and blisters all over my tongue and roof of my mouth!
NOTE TO SELF: The inside of your mouth and 325 degree molten sugar does not a good match make.
Tonight we continue with July's Alfred Hitchcock tribute and are showing Torn Curtain starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
Dinner and a movie is only $20 smackeroos and tonight we are serving your choice of:
Garlic studded Pork Roast, mashed potatoes and veggie with a mixed green salad and homemade Vermont Maple syrup bread pudding with toasted walnut praline crumbles and fresh whipped cream or you can substitute the Pork entree for Caribbean Lobster Pot Pie!
It's a fun way to break up the work week for us since we serve the dinner all at 6:30pm, the movie starts right at dusk (which is around 7:10pm) and we're "outta there" by about 9:30!!
Happy Movie night from Saba.
