Disney

What's better than a day at Disney? A FREE day at Disney. A year ago Kevin and I worked the Disney marathon and landed ourselves free day passes!
We went to celebrate Kevin's birthday, and learnt that when you where a happy birthday badge with your name on it, everyone wishes you a happy birthday. He even had the maids at the haunted house sing to him.

 Kevin's favourite ride is Buzz Light Year. We went on it 5 times! On the 5th round he scored within the highest range... which is why we didn't have to do it 6 times.

Right next to Buzz is a dance floor where the characters comes and dance with you. For every Buzz Light Year ride, I was allowed one dance. Chip or possibly Dale and I had a great time doing the Cupid Shuffel.

 Kevin won the best husband of the year award, when he suggested we go queue up to meet the Princesses. 20 minutes of standing with a bunch of little girls shows nothing but pure love.

Belle's dress is so pouffy, it's hard to get close.

 

 I told Aurora that I really appreciated her tiny waist, to which she responded "oh how kind" - the princesses won't break character, no matter how creepy you are.

Disney really is the happiest place on earth. Followed very closely by Costco.





Bucket List

What started out as your typical Sunday Afternoon Fire Engine picture shoot ended in me starting a bucket list and crossing off my first item.

Driving a Fire Engine? Done!

I got that baby up to 15mph, survived two stop signs and parked this bad boy.

Number 2 on my bucket list has yet to be decided. But I am thinking it is better to add items to my list when I have completed them, it eliminates disappointment that way.

Merry Natal

We had a fabulous Saltzman family get together in Natal (which means Christmas in Portuguese) in August. There is too much to cram into one post, so please enjoy my favourites:

Eating more meat than humanely possibly:

Gigantic slip and slides:

Silly faces:
Walking along the beach to get lunch:
Eating amazing food in tiny shacks:
ABC football game that only the night owls attended:
Renting a native for the week:
And becoming best friends despite the language barrier:

The largest cashew tree in the world (we can confirm that cashew juice is disgusting)

Feeding cashew tree monkeys (get this they eat cashews!)
Did you know that a single cashew grows under a piece of fruit, as demonstrated by this wonderful plastic replica:

Enjoying our own private beach (that we sometimes shared with others, we are nice like that)

Dune buggies!


Watching the locals fish:

Kissing a shark (this isn't really how he kisses...)

Building sandcastles with the family contractor:

Cavern (you had to grab onto the wall for dear life when a wave came in)

Dolphin watching and just being plain cute:

Team volleyball practice:

Becoming "friends" with officials (aka bribing)

Our house:

Snorkeling in a rain storm:

Enjoying great times together:

Being with family is always great, no matter where you are....so Australia next time?

Like a Bridge...but better

Bridges take time and money to build, so why go to the effort when you could simply awe the tourist (or in some cases freak them out, mentioning no names, mum!) with punting skills that put Cambridge students to shame.

The Whole Universe?

Kevin and I had an 8 hour lay over in possibly the world's most uncomfortable airport. The main highlight however was we got to see this lady:

Meet Miss Universe aka Ximena Navarette.

When you see a woman who is well over 6'2'' with shoes on, dead skinny, gorgeous and wearing a sash, it kinda catches your eye. When we walked past Ximena I made Kevin do an immediate 180 so we could walk next to her. (I prefer to remember it as walking with her.)

Kevin refused to take a photo with her. I had my camera out waiting for him to go up to her. We did have a language barrier against us, but I feel the camera in my hand would have done the talking. Kevin's real excuse was that he was a married man, and it would be creepy. I tried to explain that she has probably taken pictures with men of all ages who were way creepier, but he wasn't convinced. I may take him a couple of days, but I wouldn't be surprised if he ranks this is one of his biggest regrets in life.

Walking with Ximena wasn't too kind on the old self esteem. So I keep reminding myself that I have a great personality and I too want world peace.

Sleep Over!

One of my favourite memories from visiting my family in the summers, was sleeping over at my Aunt's house. So in my determination to be the "cool" aunt we had Kevin's Nephews over for a sleep over. Unfortunately it decided to rain all night which really put a damper on all of my planned activities.

After convincing Kevin that yes the park would be fun in the rain, he made us put ponchos on and off we went. Wish the boys had told me that wearing the hood was totally uncool.We played Uno Attack, made pizza and played an intense game of hide and seek, animal style. If you couldn't be found, you could provide a hint by making animal noises. Best quote of the night, was when Kevin couldn't be find, so he gave the hint of "boing de boing" - Noah looked up to me in complete surprise and goes "A Kangaroo? We don't even own a kangaroo!"

I also got to experience being a real adult, by pretending to sleep in the fort, but really waiting to everyone else went to sleep and snuck to my own bed!

Hopefully the boys had as much as fun as we did, and this gives me a favorable standing in the cool aunt poll!