A Day Off Together

   Like I said in my last post, it is not very often that the hubs and I get to spend the day together, but we do cherish the ones that we do get. Yesterday, we both had the day off together and we filled it up with time spent together.

   We got up bright and early at 6 am to head to a 5k we were running together. It was a blast. We got to explore a little more of Orlando while heading there and we had a blast meeting new people and getting some outside exercise together. :)

Up and ready to head out to the 5K.

      Yes, I know I am red in the after picture and yes that is what the sun does to me.


    After the 5k, we went home, cleaned up, and then got ready to head to Epcot.

Eric has been wanting to take me to Flower and Garden since it opened in March so we finally had time to go together. We had a blast :) We did the normal Epcot stuff, checked out the plants, and ate at some of the food booths in the World Showcase. Among my favorite was the "Frushi" from the Hanami stand. It was strawberry and pineapple, wrapped in coconut rice, with a raspberry sauce. It was delicious. 

 

We also hit up the Smokehouse stand and I finally got some delicious bbq. Oh how I have missed BBQ. Keep in mind these are small portions meant to snack on so don't think we just ate 4 meals or anything. Anywho, there was a brisket with greens and jalapeno cornbread and then a bbq pork slider. They were both awesome. The brisket was definitely my favorite!

While at the smokehouse stand (near the America pavillion) there were some street performers from the older times. It was pretty cool to watch them perform.

All around the park, there were Disney characters made out of bushes and greenery. They were so beautiful to look at, I did snap some pictures of a few.

All in all, it was  a great day spent with my man. It could have been anywhere and I would have been fine with that, ( we love mini golf), but I am glad I got to see Flower and Garden :)

Now onto continuing cleaning and organizing and getting ready for the upcoming week. As an added bonus, I think I hear a storm rolling in. I am loving the small little pop up thunderstorms we get here in Florida. The thunder is so relaxing.

Keep it real guys!

The Hignights

We have wifi!

It made me very happy to learn that apparently if we have our computers in the bedroom we are able to pick up on wifi....should i feel bad that I don't know which neighbor it is? Maybe I should be wary of using this mysterious wifi..it has been here since we moved in though, we could just never access it from the living room where our computers are most of the time.

Anywho, knowing that there is wifi access now, I am excited to start blogging again and will have to get some recent pictures rounded up for a more in depth update. We have been loving life down here. I am not excited about the heat that is starting to really kicked up...maybe south was not the way for me to move but I know that I will get used to it eventually.

Work for both of us Hignights has been going well. I am loving my job and getting trained to do more every day and love learning new things. I am officially past my 90 days and off probation....or as my manager said..."this just means I have to pay you unemployment for x amount of days if I fire you." Haha.
Eric is loving his work. He has really been working hard to get where he wants to be and I see many things coming up in his future as long as he stays focused, which I have no doubt he will.

Since our schedules don't allow us to be off together much at all we enjoy our time we have together. Normally he has only been home for a few hours when I am up getting ready for work, and I am dead asleep when he gets home. This gives me many evenings home alone and this house really should be cleaner considering that. I am working on it. One domestic house wife skill at a time. Haha. We really do enjoy our time off together though. Tomorrow, we are running a 5k together in benefit of the Edgewood Children's Ranch. It supports a good cause and we get to run a 5k. We love doing these and this will be our time marker for our upcoming Disney races. We are doing 2 Disney 5ks this fall ( with random ones interspersed across our summer) and in January 2014 I am doing my first 10k and Eric is doing his first marathon! How exciting. We are going to use this 5k tomorrow to gauge where we are so we can set goals. Then we will be off to Epcot for the end of Flower and Garden festival. Exciting! I have always wanted to go and really see Flower and Garden.

I know a few are wandering have you gotten used to Florida water yet...the answer is no and I am not sure if I ever will. My stomach now can tolerate it, now I am just the stubborn one who doesn't like the taste. I do drink water from our Brita picture and I stocked up on the large smart waters when Publix had a 10 for 10 sale but if it is straight from the tap forget it. In the long run I do feel bad because I know the water isn't toxic like in other countries don't get me wrong, its not that I am not thankful, I'm just throwing that out there.

Well that is pretty much our life in a quick nutshell right now. Once I get some pictures organized there will be more interesting and more frequent blogs since we now have wi-fi.

 The Hignights. :)