More people in Lewiston than I've ever seen at one time. The whole of Center St. was lines 3-4 people deep.

This was the Niagara Ballet Company float. They had ballerinas and music - pulled by a semi!

One of the 3 bagpipe bands in the parade - these were from Youngstown - the next town over.

There were quite a few old-time fire trucks - pretty cool to see.

Peach Festival Parade

Balloon Animals

The only horses in the whole 1hr 40 min parade and they had to wear "poop catching bags."

Mom's here!

We are having a wonderful time. She ignores my head cold that makes my nose run, throat hurt and plugs my ears and I ignore her ears being plugged from flying. :-) We got up and went to the stairs this morning - did both sets - about 7900 steps according to my pedometer. Very good workout - especially since I did weights yesterday - my poor legs were crying for mercy! lol
We went to the chinese place here in town for lunch, such good food! This evening we're off to the outlet mall, BB&B, Ulta, then to the Melting Pot for cheese and chocolate. We have plans to cook ckn & noodles, ham balls & cinnamon rolls while she's here. Oh who am I kidding - she has plans to cook all that. I will assist while I'm not at work. :-) I will try to take some pics later and post.

2 new rules

Rule #1 - Do NOT ask Mandy to stock the sugar/candy aisles during a certain time of the month. CRAVED sugar for HOURS after I got home.

Rule #2 - No matter what shoes you wear, after 6 hours on your feet your feet will HURT. Therefore, listen to the little voice in your head and go to the gym BEFORE work!

CVS

Hello! How is everybody? I hope you enjoyed all the photos from our trip! I started my job at CVS today (well orientation was last night but actually started "working" today). I like it! Everyone seems to be very nice and helpful, if a little stressed out. It seems to be very focused on "Smile, eye contact, do ANYTHING to make the customer happy" etc. which is a good place to work. Even as a lowly "cashier/clerk" I'm empowered (such a funny word) to do minor returns, substitutions etc. Plus the managers are happy to be paged for questions. So far my only worries are:
1. They sell cigarretes which I've never sold/purchased so that will take some learning.
2. Same deal with the moneygrams but apparently they're not common purchases.
3. Danskos are going to be important again b/c I'll be on my feet the whole time. They don't have a "cushion" to stand on like we did at the pharmacy etc.

The temp agency had me assigned back to a previous job for Friday but CVS needed me and didn't really give me a way to say no.... I hope the temp agency still uses me! At least it's a 9-3 shift at CVS that day so I'm not giving up a full 8 hours at the higher pay for 4 hours at min wage. I am unable to ask off for mom's visit which irritates me a little (I want to hang out w/ her!) but she seems very fine with it which helps. I'm going to ask off for Amy's visit when I go in tomorrow. Here's hoping everything works like I want it to and no one yells too much at me tomorrow and I'll keep you updated!

Assorted funnies....

I HAD to post this pic, it just SCREAMS Kt.
















Did you notice the price? $37,500 for a crystal palace.

My husband's drooling........ Lotus' for sale, the red one was USED for sale.

More FL pics

Turtles for sale! They were babies, about the size of your thumb.

















Pics of the space shuttle launching, the reflections are off the ocean.

























































For Kt - fancyschmancy mall!

More pics

This is taken at a walkway down by an oceanfront shopping center (w/ a baskin-robbins!!) :-) We had fun taking pics in black and white and regular down the aisle of palm trees.



















































Totally just b/c it's cute. Apparently we just missed bike week down here.













My poor husband now jumps at all the baby lizards after seeing the teeth on this sucker!!

Ponce Islet Lighthouse

Scenery in FL

In remembrance of Kt's bug....







Daytona Beach sunset







A couple of the beautiful houses along our road.

Big waves, jellyfish and custard!

I love being on vacation! My husband finally managed to sleep until 8 today - wow!! About 4 hours later than the previous morning! :-P I dreamed that I forgot about my new job at CVS and never called them when I got back home --- the joys of not taking my nightly meds - I always get weird dreams when that happens!
We went down and I laid by the pool while crazy husband went for a run this morning. After how bad my shins hurt after all the walking yesterday I decided to not run today. Felt like I'd curled up in a warm dryer full of clothes to feel the morning sun just warm me all the way thru. My bones just wanted to melt (and no mom I'm not burnt). We went and played in the pool and the ocean. I went out to about my knees while the waves would come in in sets of 3-4. They'd build on each other until the water would go from my knees to my neck! I just laughed - so much fun!! Until I felt this "jello-y" substance w/ my right hand.......I jumped and looked down. I could see thru the jellyfish. He was flat and shaped like a stingray - he didn't sting me. He had a solid black colored middle and the rest was see-thru. Very strange. I decided that was enough "ocean time" for me and got out quickly! We ate lunch, napped and then went driving around Daytona proper (we're in Daytona Beach Shores) and Port Orange. We stopped and had custard at this little place - so GOOD! I had strawberry shortcake sundae!!!!! Yummmmm. Altogether a very relaxing day.

7.5+ miles story....

So we walked/ran 3 miles this am down to the pier and back. Then decided we were HUNGRY and would go just down the road to IHOP. Car? We don't need a car - we'll just walk. And walk. And walk. And walk. And walk. And walk. And walk. And walk. 2.5 miles later, with me about to PASS OUT and my poor husband weak from lack of water we FINALLY found the IHOP. So we ate. And ate. And ate. And drank LOTS of water. We decided to walk in the surf on the way back. Of course idiot me had on jeans. So I just rolled them to my shins. Then my knees. Then they would get wet and pull down so I kept having to re-roll them. Poor husband hadn't planned on getting wet but was focused on taking a picture and didn't pay attention to the waves. He got wet feet so off his shoes/socks came and we both walked in the ocean/sand allllllllllllllll the way back home. And took a nap. :-)

Last post for today - pretty pictures...

Post #5

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!





Me and honey after our run...walk.



I love this picture - the waves make pretty designs w/ the black and grey sand grains.....





4' swells today - trust me they're bigger than they look...