Life Is Better With You

The Hubby surprised me with a little 4 day/3 nights get-away to Florida.
The occasion?
Our 23rd year anniversary.

The real BIG Surprise was that it was for a MICHEAL BUBBLE concert!!!

Before I knew what the event was, Mike tried to pretend it was some geek
convention or a football game.
Right!
A few hours before I found out what it was, he casually asked me
"Who would you love to see in Concert?"
My response was without hesitation:
"Micheal Bubble... or the Beatles."
To which he replied: "The Beatles are dead!"
Me: "I know, but a knock off group would be fine I guess..."

[He must have been grinning from ear to ear hearing me say that!]

When I found out that we were going to see Bubble, I was so excited!
To top it all and make the evening even more special, Bubble sang
" ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"
I got all chocked up!

Bubble is awesome on stage and put on an unforgettable show!

We did a little shopping, caught up on sleep, and the most unpleasant part of the week-end
was going to a mandatory Time Share presentation (part of the affordable getaway)
It ended up being way longueur than expected (normally 90mn).
Not with Mike it's not.
It was the longest EVER! Like 6 hours long!!!
I hated those!

Before the concert, we checked out one of the popular Florida beaches.
Somewhere near St Pete's, Tampa area...
We walked along the jetty and along the beach.
I took too many pictures and made Mike walk too much! :)
But he owed me for that time share presentation!

No swimming today, I didn't want to re-shower in some yucky beach bathrooms.
We were going strait to the concert since we were too far from our room.

Love these cute umbrellas!
Little merchants were set up all along the jetty,
the colorful umbrellas protects them and their stuff from the winds.

I recently found this cute song. 

One of my favorite sayings since Mike texted me
"Life is better when I get to spend it with you"
a while back. I shortened it to life is better with you,
and will make another one with his original quote and post it too...

One of those little thoughtful & memorable words spoken by someone you love 

that makes you feel oh so special and cherished!

And even though we have some great-days, okay-days and some lets-forget-days;

Beach Day with a Kite and Seaweed!

What we do on the beach.

Today there was not much beach to speak of.

Texas beaches are not your exotic white-sand-clear-water-beach!

This is the first time though, that I come here and there is seaweed all the way to the water's edge.

Some days are better than others as far as Texas beach conditions are concerned.

That said, we still appreciate a beach day.

It didn't stop the kids from having fun body surfing, flying a kite, 

feeding the seagulls peanut butter sandwiches, 

digging in the sand, creating weird sand castles and jumping the waves... 

And it didn't stop me from walking along the beach and taking lots of pictures.

And it didn't stop Chloe from smelling dead fish, rolling in dead fish, chasing birds, 

getting all wet and sandy and from smelling like dead fish!

And it didn't stop Missy from rolling over on her back offering her belly to any neighboring 

strangers willing to scratch her sandy belly!

*****

In case you are wondering, no we do not have an extra dog!

Missy is a little pooch, Amelie is dog sitting this summer. 

Her first little paying job!

Our Last Day

Today was our last full day in Hawaii. We did what Mike wanted to do!

He didn't get much rest with all the places we had to see, the snorkeling to do and things to discover.

I pretty much chose where to go, when, almost this whole trip.

So I said to Mike: 

"This is your day, I will do what you want and not complain or suggest something else"... 

It was hard at times to keep my mouth shut!

So what did we do? You ask?

We slept in.

We ate lunch at our place. 

Packed.

Did laundry.

We did nothing relaxed until 3pm. 

We left our place to take a stroll on Waikiki beach, took a little dip in the water.

We watched the parade and had dinner watching the Sunset.

Yep, that was it. 

It was nice and romantic...

 An Asian couple were taking wedding pictures on Waikiki Beach. 

I guess it's a popular wedding spot!

 Mike, being nice. If you can't tell this is his 'are-you-done-taking-pictures-yet-because-i-am?' face.

People lock up their surf boards right by the beach! 

Some of these were HUGE!

And the Sunset was lovely.