What I Did On My Summer Vacation - Part 5

I should relabel this post - What I Ate On My Summer Vacation because all my photos seemed to be of food, starting with FEAST's Island celebration of summer.

Fried calamari, rice and beans, lamb stew, mango upside down cake with guanabana (no idea how to spell that word) sorbet, and ginger beer were consumed by all. I did the dishes.

I traveled up to Albany for labor day weekend and spent Saturday bowling with my man Trevor, whose size 9 man's shoe is now bigger than his 9 year old head!

While his feet are ahead of the curve his eye teeth are still nowhere in sight.

In addition to some hang time with Trev, I was there to visit my extended family at Tony and Kathy's place. All the kids have grown and another one is on the way. My cousin's are certainly covering their share (and mine) of family reproduction.

While the little kids swam the big kids drank beer.

I mostly hid my white ass from the sun and drank black cherry flavored vodka with Jennifer.

Happy birthday, Aunt Kath!

On Monday I cooked the best meal EVER! Panko crusted talapia, homemade mango salsa, spicy chipotle mayo, and white peach sangria. Because Brice doesn't like fish, I also made a spicy stewed chicken, we roasted corn on the grill, Bonnie made guacamole, and Rocco brought Brownies.

BBAMS was fat and happy! Thank you Tyler's Ultimate for the recipe!

THE END

PS - Following right on the heels of my gluttonous end of summer weekend, I shared a dinner of amazing paella with Dita and a ginourmous tub of popcorn with Mike during Tropic Thunder. (Go see this movie ASAP....but go prepared to pee your pants laughing.)

(These photos were too funny to keep to myself -- but I'm dead next time I see either one of these two. )