14. Blog

Before my mother e-mails me reminding me how many days it's been since my last blog, I'll have to give you an update. We're here! We said goodbye to Boston with a much anticipated "Farewell and F*!% You!" Okay, so maybe our goodbyes to coworkers contained some sadness, but the goodbye to the apartment was the easiest goodbye of my life. We left one last snack for Joey (who we actually were sad about leaving) and skipped merrily into the night. We even packed our car and loaded our bike rike in the dark so that we could leave Sunday night rather than Monday morning. We spent a few very much needed days in Monroe which always does the soul and tummy good. Top Chef Allstars started on Wednesday and was the primary focus and main event of the trip. Thursday morning after a brief but pleasant visit with Grandma, and a stop at Monroe Bagels and Deli we were back on the road! For lunch we went to Pat's King of Steaks in Philly for a cheesesteak. The oringal cheesesteak. It was the most disappointing sandwhich of my life. I had to stuff it with frenchfries to make it taste good. What a joke. Should have tried Geno's. Whats with Travel Channel leading us astray? If I can't trust travel Channel who can I trust? We drove a while after that and stopped outside Baltimore for the night. Our hotel had a fish tank in the lobby with a blowfish that had only one eye. I was mesmorized while Rachel played the adult and checked us into our room. That night we decided to treat ourselves (big surprise) to Red Lobster because it's our guilty pleasure. I ordered the coconut shrimp and snow crab leg combo entree thing (as usual). It was delicious and our favorite part is the crab. Not only is it delicious but its FUN! My favorite! So we're cracking our way through and talking about how you always run out of crab before you want to and our waiter plops another half a crab onto our table! "Here you go ladies, I got you some more crab legs because your first order wasn't really up to my standards." One of the legs of my first crab had been broken off. Who cares? I had to break it off to eat it anyway. But look! More crab! We thanked our waiter about a hundred times and got crackin...(ha). Let's just say he got VERY good tip. The next day we drove through Washington D.C on a safari. This means we drove around and saw the tourist things from our car. We then headed in a straight line south down to Raleigh, North Carolina to visit my cousin Jamie. She took us out to an awesome Mexican Restaurant and we drove around the city for awhile on another safari. It was amazing to see her. I seriously have the best family. We woke up the next morning and started our 12 hour drive down to Jupiter. We arrived at around 11pm. This place is amazing. It's absolutely gorgeous. We unpacked and went to bed excited to see it in day light. We woke up to a beautiful day. We decided to go to the resaurant across the street from the condos for brunch. It's a new resaurant called Gulfstream Cafe. I plan on dropping my resume off later today. Our server was so kind and we got to chatting. After learning we had just moved there she dropped the check and told us she was going to go see if she could grab us a "treat". She went inside for a minute and came back with two ten dollar gift cards. Again...big tip. After brunch we went to the beach for a few hours. The ocean is so different down there. It's practically green, it looks like the caribbean. We went grocery shopping and cooked our first Jupiter dinner. While we were eating we remembered whey we go out to eat so often. You'd think two people who loved food so much would be able to make things that taste good. I blame some of our meal on the quality of the halibut. It smelled a little fishy and I know fresh fish is not supposed to smell like fish. Stupid whole foods. Today is get our lives together day. We have a huge to do list and I know we'll go to bed feeling so good about ourselves if we cross off at least most of the list if not all. We learned last night that Jupiter doesn't have a craigslist page. This makes finding a job way harder. We have to make sure we don't work to far away from eachother because we only have one car. It'll be a challenge to figure it out this time around but I think we're up for it. Blogging is on the list so now I can cross that off. Laundry is in the washer and Rach is at the beach right now running in the sand. I plan to do the same today but I've decided to wait until sunset. Oh two more things! First thing is that I've literally been looking all over the country for Toaster Scrambles with sausage. I though they'd stopped making them with sausage and I hate the bacon ones. Well I've found them! Hurray! Another thing is that there is a beautiful, palm tree lined, so clear you can see everything on the bottom pond about twenty feet from our porch. It looks almost fake and I love hanging out on the edge and watching turtles swim. People must feed the ducks around here (which don't look like the ducks back home) because they're totally friendly and come right up to you as soon as you walk outside. I give them crackers though I don't think I'm supposed to. I have to duck friends. I've named them Foie and Gras. Daddy helped me name them. I bet by the end of the trip I'll be able to pet them because I almost can now and we've only just met! I have to go see what else is on that to do list. In conclusion, we are happy once again. Our only worry now is getting jobs and once thats settled we're good to go. I'll try to keep everyone updated. -lj (blog - check!)