All I want for Christmas.....

Hello Kitty DMs

Mac - Pureshow

MAC - 6 Twists of Tartan

Revlon - Galaxy Top Coat

 

Marc Jacobs (wishful thinking!)

Just one week...

We arrive home next Friday and I already have a list of things I wanna see/do/eat (mainly eat):-

1.  Twiglets
2.  Grey Street Christmas lights and Fenwick window
3.  An English Curry probably from Brighton Tandoori
3.  Christmas Pudding
5.  Possibly Fish and Chips from Sandyford Chippy
6.  ooohh Snowball (the drink)

I will have thought of more by this time next week I am sure.

The only thing Teddy wants is a Kebab (from Whitley Bay).

Camera Action

With some of my birthday spends I booked myself a little photography course which I took on Wednesday.... it was pretty basic just to learn about composition and more of the programming on my camera.  I felt a little silly as everyone had big fancy cameras and knew all the jargon!  and I just had my little pocket camera but I did learn a few tricks... so here are some of the photos.  I think the Vietnam ones are the best.

 President Andrew Jackson

 Albert Einstein

 Veitnam Veterans Memorial

 Korean War Veterans Memorial

Union Station

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving just over a week a go with some of the guys I work with at Biergarten who weren't going 'home for the holidays'.  Its sort of like Christmas dinner back home - its always a turkey, usually a ham and all the trimmings.

The trimmings are different here though we had mac 'n' cheese, cornbread, greenbean casserole and sweet potatoe casserole.  For dessert it was pumpkin pie, pecan pie and sweet mince pies (courtesy of the brooks kitchen) to add a british touch... I also made our gravy as Amercian gravy is different to ours.  The most intriguing for me was the sweet potatoe cassarole or 'candied yams' which I like the sound of.  Its sweet potatoes and other stuff with a marsh mallow top!!!...

 

Biergarten folk...

Matt & Jess

Mike & Lacey

Jess & keith

                                                     

And...

Amy

Russell

                                        

Lazing in Miami

Our trip to Miami was brilliant - very lazy and chilled out which was exactly what I wanted for my birthday.  Just got to lay around the pool and catch the sun.  We did have a little wander one day along Ocean Drive to see some of the deco buildings and do a little shopping (or window shopping, I couldnt find anything I wanted to spend my birthday money on!).  For my birthday we went out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant called Nobu which was delicious and drinks at some of the hotel bars......

 

.... Wish I was back there ha!!

Thank You!!!

Just wanted to say thank you for all my lovely birthday cards and gifts! xxxxx

Miami Beach

I am really excited to be going to Miami on Sunday for my Birthday, can't wait to just lay around the pool and beach for a few days.  Our hotel looks amazing - YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

More holiday snaps

Teddy wanted me to add a few more holiday snaps....
Yip there are some food ones in here.  We went to a place in LA called Philippes its really famous for its french double dipped sandwich (they claim to have invented it) its basically a sub roll with the sides dipped in gravy/juices from the meats they put in them - you can get beef, pork, turkey, ham maybe some others any way they were delicious!!  While we were there the local news crew were in filming.

One of our favourite places was a texas style bar/ restaurant right near our hotel... the ribs were mint and I am not even bothered about ribs usually.

Some others Teddy wanted adding....

 Santa Monica Beach

 Waterworld @ Universal

 Russell on Alcatraz

 First time we've had yorkshire pudding in USA

 Downtown SF