The Weekend

Saturday was the perfect day to be on an island in the gulf....Perfect.

Only a few pics were taken because well...I was just having myself a grand ol' time with my friend, Ann.

The Dad's even took the kids tubing and were gone for quiet awhile, leaving Ann & myself to do the difficult task of reserving our beachfront property.

We ended up back at the Ann pad and after a few to many pink drinks in the hot tub, kayaking sounded like a good idea at the time. We were thankful for low tide because that meant we could go right under the boats on the lifts as opposed to just bumping & bouncing off of them. However, low tide was our worst enemy when trying to crawl our way out of the kayak & onto the dock. Only one of us ended up wet & thankfully it wasn't me. We did have life vests, though the arm pits of the vests worked better as drink holders than life savers. ;0) We just need to work on our steering and dismounting and we might be ready to enter the Great Dock Canoe Race or maybe not.

On Sunday, J had the marvelous idea to regrout our master shower.

10 hours in the shower, 2 trips to H0me Dep0t & 10 lbs of grout dust later, the shower is still not ready for use, which is highly inconvenient. 3 tiles fell off the wall in the process and we are trying to match those up.

I spent the day bleaching the front lanai & scrubbing it. It looked fabulous, till I woke up to find a big pile of something on the brick.

See...told ya. So what was the point of that?
I also decided to go around the brick pavers and weed all the little tiny, deeply rooted weeds out with a small plier like thingy. It worked well, but then I managed to give myself 4 blisters, this one being the worst. The skin lifts all the way off and it's deep. Kinda hurts.
The annoying part is we pay somebody to do that job. To bad they don't do it right or maybe I shouldn't be so picky. (?) The jury is still out on that one.



While catching up on laundry, my washer door popped open. It just popped wide open...?
So J ordered a part, which will take 2-3 days to get here. In the meantime, laundry is piling up by the mounds.

We did get our Visa's today! Woot! One more step closer.
Now if only we could get that darn TA in our hands.
With all the conflicting information going around, it's enough to make a grown girl cry.