Travel Tuesdays: Marco Island, FL

We went to Marco Island for Memorial weekend and K's birthday with some friends a couple years ago and had a great time exploring the quiet beach town on Florida's South West coast.

Cape Marco Beach

Luckily our friend's family owns a condo on the beach so we had an amazing view of the Gulf of Mexico for the weekend.

During the day we lounged on the beach and at the pool. The girls also did some shelling while the guys fished off of the dock. They even caught us dinner one of the days.

We also went for sunset dinner and drinks on the water which was fun.

I really enjoyed visiting the cute beach town of Marco Island.
Linking up with Helene today for Travel Tuesdays.

What's your favorite beach town?

Friday Night with Taylor Swift

Cheers to a new week! This year is really flying by quickly. Can't believe it's mid-April already.

So I posted last week about how excited I was to go to the Taylor Swift Red Tour concert on Friday night with two girl friends that flew into town. Well, we experienced a little fiasco with the tickets we purchased from StubHub (which costed us a pretty penny). 

We were told that Taylor will be on stage at 8:30pm sharp so to be on time. The three of us went to grab sushi first so we arrived at the Arena with only a few minutes to spare. When we tried to enter, they told us our tickets had already been used. Huh? We then went to the box office to get them checked and, sure enough, some guy in California double sold our tickets so the other people got into the concert first and our tickets became void. WTF StubHub? We didn't know what to do at this point. My two friends also planned their whole trip around this concert so they were pretty upset. 

We had to make a quick decision and we decided to buy new tickets if any were even available since it was a sold out show. Luckily we got 3 tickets but our seats were in the VERY LAST row in the Arena, whereas our other seats would have been pretty close to the stage. 

I have to say Taylor Swift puts on an amazing show! Other than the little disaster with our tickets, we had a great time at the concert. StubHub is also refunding us the money for the first set out tickets and giving us a gift card for the extra money we had to put out to buy the second set of tickets. I think that's a good enough reimbursement for the trouble we went through.

My outfit for the Red Tour concert.

Linking up with Sami for Weekend Shenanigans.

 

 How was your weekend?

#RedTour Friday

Happy Friday everyone!!
I'm even more excited today because I'm going to Taylor Swift's Red Tour concert tonight with some lady friends! We've been waiting weeks for this :-)

I don't usually listen to a whole lot of pop culture music nor am I a bieber fever believer but I do have an appreciation for Miss TS herself.

Joining Lauren today for H54F.

 

1. K and I at Roy's Hawaiian Cuisine last weekend for his mom's birthday dinner.

2. Beach weather is finally here and I'm just as excited as our friend's baby girl. She was dancing and having fun at the beach last weekend.

3. I finally got to try Abita Strawberry this week at happy hour with some coworkers. I've been reading about it on several blogs and I now see why everyone is raving about it. It's sooo good!

4.  We spotted Taylor Swift's Red Tour buses & trailers (about 10 of them) arriving in town yesterday. Can't wait to see her tonight!

5. We also got to enjoy some Coconut Shrimp last weekend while hanging out at the beach bars. Def my favorite type of shrimp.

 

Hope everyone has a fun weekend!

Travel Tuesdays: Trinidad W.I.

You may already know that I grew up in Trinidad and moved to Florida when I was 18 yo so it holds a special place in my heart. Although Trinidad & Tobago is one country, it is two separate islands each with their own beauty. 

 I captured some of my favorite things on my most recent trip to Trinidad.

Maracas Bay Beach

 Local Snacks

Boat Parties off the NW coast of Trinidad.

Known locally as "Down the Islands"

 "Shark n Bake" 

(aka the best fish sandwich in the world... according to me & Andrew Zimmern).

Only a quick flight over to Tobago for more beautiful beaches.

Linking up with Helene for Travel Tuesdays.

I'm looking forward to our upcoming trip to T&T to spend NYE with friends and family in the sunny islands that stay 90 degrees all year long.

Sunshine State Weekend Fun

The weather has finally warmed up so we headed out to the beach for the weekend and to also visit family and friends out there. On Friday night we went out to celebrate my MIL's birthday at Roy's Hawaiian Fusion.

On Saturday morning we headed out to the beach with some friends. It was a gorgeous day!

We also randomly saw the famous Naked Cowboy from NYC with his new sidekick. (We made sure he was the real deal by going online and comparing his tattoos).

After the beach we headed to the beach bars to get some food and frozen drinks with a bunch of friends.

I finally got to have fresh Oysters for the year and we decided to also try Oyster shots which were interesting.

Linking up with Sami for Weekend Shenanigans.

 

I hope you all had a great weekend!

H54F: Hello Warm(er) Weather!

Happy Friday everyone!
I'm excited that the weather in Florida is finally warm enough to go to the beach. So we're doing exactly that this weekend ;-)

Joining Lauren today for High Five For Friday.

1. Last weekend I went to VS to buy a new swimsuit and I left with this very bright but FREE umbrella.

2. Drinking on a budget. Franzia box wine is not too shabby for $11.99. It has 3 liters of wine so it's equivalent to about 4 small bottles of wine. Sweet deal!

3. Carrot cake from Publix is to die for. I usually try to avoid the bakery section but I picked this up for our Easter dinner last weekend and we had lots leftover.

4. Our money tree is growing out of control...but where's the money at? Seriously. Hoping this is a sign from the Gods.

5. Got a new shipment of Body Shop's Tea Tree collection this week. I'm really liking how this works for my skin and helps with blemishes. I use the Tea Tree Face Wash, Clearing Toner, Pore Minizer and Blemish Gel.

Since I had a $10 off coupon I also added in a Vitamin C Microdermabrasion moisturizer which I am yet to use. I'll def do a review on this product.

 

I hope you all have a fabulous and fun weekend!

Throwback Thursdays: The Goldilocks Years

I don't have access to many baby pictures of myself since my parents live far away but I ran across this old picture of me cutting the cake at my 2nd (maybe 3rd?) birthday. A true December baby cake, I see.

I also can't help but notice my perfect little gold wringlets. Must have been nice to have bleach blonde hair and perfect curls without paying big bucks to a hairdresser?!  Such is not the case any more so salon prices will be the death of me. I know, #Firstworldproblems.

Joining in today for Throwback Thursdays!

 

One more day til the weekend!

Travel Tuesdays: Cruising to Alaska

A few years ago we went on a 7-night cruise to Alaska on Royal Caribbean. This was a family trip organized by my grandmother so all of the cousins got to spend time together. The cruise left from Vancouver, British Columbia so we arrived a day early to do some site-seeing in B.C.

 Alaska was very beautiful and serene. We stopped in 3 different ports in Alaska - Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan.

We had a great time on the ship, however I prefer tropical weather for a cruise so it was a little different from the usual sunny vacation. The cousins of course found ourselves drinking at the bar every night.

Linking up with Helene today for Travel Tuesdays.

  Good times!

 

Easter Weekend Fun

Hope everyone had a great weekend! It's never long enough for me!!

 

#1: Ordered a Blueberry Mojito on Friday night at dinner and it was delicious.

#2: Picked up the pretty plant to decorate our house for Easter. 

#3: We stopped by World of Beer on Saturday night to try out some different beers.

#4: Easter Sunday candy and dessert table.

We cooked up a storm on Sunday and invited a few friends over to join us for Easter dinner. 

We finally got to use our turkey fryer that we got for our wedding. 

 

Easter Menu: Ham, Fried Turkey, Corn Pie, Mashed Potato Casserole & Stuffing.

Everything turned out great and we enjoyed catching up with friends!

Joining Sami for Weekend Shenanigans.

 

Enjoy the rest of your week!