Think Pink

That was our day yesterday...everything we did was to get prepared for our first fundraiser for our 3 Day Walk for Breast Cancer. I'm a part of a great team, Footprints of Faith, and we had a blast last night. It a very successful. It was held at a local skating rink and the people working there were incredible!! They not only gave us the proceeds from the entire night, along with each employee donating their time....but the owner matched what we made. Then we had a table that we sold candles, salsa and cookies and we made $210 from that alone (thanks Mom and Lisa)!!! We really couldn't have asked for a more generous group of people. It was a victorious night, and it was a bunch of fun.

The kids had a blast as well. They were not wanting the night to end. Dylan and Marissa had several friends there. As did Cassie, but she wanted to hang with her mom most of the night. So, unfortunately, I did not get to skate like I would have liked to. Still a blast! It was funny to see Marissa and her friends "flirting" with some of Dylan's friends AND THE DJ. Not sure I'm ready for that, but at least they were making me a part of it and coming up and telling me who they thought were cute. I remember those days....

Anyway, one fundraiser down and one more to go. Our garage sale in September. Hopefully it will be successful as well. I've raised $660 so far with not a lot of time to raise the rest....I'd better get my pink tail in gear!!

Enjoy a few pictures from last night.



Our team (minus 2)



Dylan w/friends



Cassie w/friends



Marissa w/friends



Lisa and Mom selling items and taking donations!

Until next time....

Long Island Wasn't Long Enough

Scott and I just got back from NY. We had a great time visiting with his family. Then we left Cassie with Scott's aunt and took off for Manhattan to take in a Broadway play. We saw Xanadu. We rented the movie a couple of nights before we left and could not believe we were going to see the cheeziest movie ever put on film performed on Broadway. Well, we were pleasantly surprised that it was a spoof on the movie and it was hilarious. We laughed so much and really enjoyed it. The actors were incredible and whoever wrote the play did an amazing job. Next, we headed out to Long Island, which I had never really seen. Scott drove me by the house he grew up in, his schools and some hangouts that he frequented growing up. It was fun seeing things from his childhood and I fell in love with the island. It was nothing like I thought it would be. There was so much land and country, it was beautiful. It is full of wineries, farms, beaches and very quaint little towns with country homes and country churches. I loved every minute of our short time alone!!

We started out visiting the north fork of Long Island and just went to all these little towns and stopped whenever we wanted. One of our stops was a winery and it was really fun! I so want to be a wine drinker and sip red wine with Scott, but it just ain't gonna happen! We made several stops at little shops and town squares. Scott was very accommodating and left all the decisions to me on where to go and what to see. It was so much fun for me, but I know a little boring for him. He was very sweet about it though. We met his sister in one of the little towns for dinner and ate seafood by the water. We planned to do the same thing the next day, but on the south fork (though the Hamptons and several other towns). But I felt bad putting him through another day of looking at "other people's junk". So I suggested that we go deep sea fishing on a charter boat. Scott looked up the info and found a boat in Montauk (the last town on the south fork, referred to as "the end"). I absolutely loved this little town, it was so beautiful. They also have a famous light house that we visited. The last time I went deep sea fishing, I was about 11 years old and got so seasick that I fell asleep on the top deck and got very sunburned. So Dramamine to the rescue. I took 2 before we sailed out and it worked great! We caught lots of fish, had lots of fun and enjoyed our 4 hours at sea!

Me, Scott and his sister, Michele at the restaurant on the water in Greenport.

This is at the Pindar Winery. They had a huge field of sunflowers (used in one of their wines) which is one of my favorite flowers. And they were everywhere! BEAUTIFUL!!!

Montauk Lighthouse. It was really beautiful. The picture below is by the lighthouse as well.

Scott with one of the many flukes we caught onboard the Lazy Bones. Can't wait to take the kids to do this sometime!

At the end of our fishing trip and our 2 days alone together. We both came to the conclusion that we must do this more often!

Until next time....