Busy busy

We like to keep people in anticipation..so we don't blog often. (or we're just lazy bloggers)
Heres whats been going on lately...

We got back from Jersey, and Brian's Mom Sally came out for a visit with her friend Deb. We had a great time hanging out with them (and eating yummy meals). Hopefully they had a great time as well! You can check out pics at Sally's page.

Here's us at North Shore.
Us eating Shave Ice.

Here's some pictures of the insane waves they have been getting up in North Shore. They even had all the beaches closed down this day. I don't think the pics really do the waves justice..they were over 25ft & coming up onto the road.











While Sally was here she gave me a sewing lesson. Here is my 1st creation. A hawaiian scrub top.

And I finished this one up just after Sally left.

Nice huh? I've also been sewing other things around the house...puttin that machine to good use

Today I went to a baby shower at White Plains Beach and there was a Hawaiian Monk Seal snoozin in the sun.

New Years Eve 2008 at Hollywood

Key Largo, Montego, baby why dont we go...

My dad and I decided to go to Florida for Thanksgiving to get away... we spent time with close friends of his Renee & Mario in Ft. Lauderdale by the Sea, and then we drove through Miami, and went down to the Keys, and spent time in Key Largo & Marathon. We were invited to have Thanksgiving dinner at the house of the owners of the resort we were staying at at the time, so we did...surprisingly, we had a REALLY good time with complete strangers, they were very friendly! Here's some pics from our trip ...

Restaurant/bar next door to our place

My future condo, nice huh?

Fishing Pier

Completely random photo..we were on the fishing pier above when I noticed this crazy drunk girl. With beer in hand she was dramatically stripping for any passerby with a camera..so, yea, of course I snapped her picture. Her response...she flashed me her fine bu-dunk-a-dunk (sp?)..SO I snapped another. Lucky you guys, right?

Pelican munchin' on a fish

My dad off the fishing pier

Cool pirate store

My dad way out there

South beach. But I don't think its the south beach..

South Beach

Sunset in Key Largo


The bay in Key Largo

Sitting on this hammock made me feel like I was in a Corona commercial. Esp when 2 guys came out and started playin their guitars..very random

Sunset at 7 Mile Bridge

7 Mile Bridge

Dad

Marathon Beach

We went to Coral Castle. This guy built this place many years ago with simple tools and no one to help...and him and his family actually lived there. Everything in there is made completely of coral.

This Florida shaped table was intended for the governor of FL to sit at

Me in a lounge chair

We also did a really cool kayak adventure in the everglades but I played it safe and didn't bring my camera, just in case...so no pics, sorry.

I had a great time bonding with my dad, but unfortunately for him I think my lil' sister is gonna hang this trip over his head for a loooong time.

It's been a while.

You know I've been away for quite sometime.. unfortunately for awful reasons. My step-mom Pat passed away on November 8th, after a long battle with breast cancer. She is loved and will be missed by many! I know I have a very special angel watching over me, and I have a lot of wonderful memories to cherish.

Bowling

We went bowling with Grandmom and Grandpop Drissel the day after Christmas. Rachel and I pretty much got owned. They are really good. It was a great time hanging out with the Grandparents. Here is a video of Grandmom bowling. She is pretty into it.

We are the Crazy Cat People

Yes, Rachel got Christmas Costumes for the cats.  Needless to say they were not very happy with them.

Loving Sisters

24 Hours

We got this cabin reservation from a friend (long story), but it was supposed to be a sweet little "hotel like room" on the beach. So, since we were going to play paintball on that side of the island anyway we decided to take it.

Got kind of a late start so it was dark when we got there to check in. They gave us a little map that showed pretty simple directions on how to get to the "camper cabin".

After two laps around this campsite we had to go back to the front desk to ask for directions , but the hawaiian chick there was no help. We finally found our cabin, and were surprised to see that it was a little sparse. Just a bunk bed, and a regular bed. No sheets or pillow or anything. Luckily we had two sleeping bags in our trunk for some reason.



Later I burned the hot dogs we brought to eat, so we ate halloween candy to supplement our meal. Oh, and we had no drinking water. Rach was ok with that though because she would rather be dehydrated than be forced to use the disgusting public bathrooms.

So I spend the night disassembling, checking, lubricating, and reassembling my gun (Rach read her book). I felt like a hired gun spending the night in a remote cabin. Greasing up my gun and thinking about all the PTs I was going to kill the next day. (We played PTs vs OTs in paintball).

We didnt sleep so well since we had no pillows and the mattress sucked. So we woke up early and got ready for paintball. We ate at this little restaurant they have there (only after having to wait 15 mins for the broad to take our order). Then we left to go to paintball, except there was a giant detour, traffic, and the fact that it took way longer than I thought to get there.

On the trip to paintball we saw this sweet truck.



But, after all of that we played paintball for about 5 hours. The place we played is called the Kualoa Ranch. They filmed Jurrasic Park, 50 First Dates, Lost, and Pearl Harbor there. So we played in the same place where the T-Rex ate the goat in J Park.




We grilled out on our little Weber that Dave gave us. Pretty good food, except I tried to pick up the grill when we were leaving and burnt the tips of my fingers.