Saturday: Scooter Edition

We decided to head out to the store Saturday morning for some football snacks. There are a few things that I didn't expect to encounter this early in life, but today I've eliminated one of those. Its the grocery store scooter. Two weeks ago, I never thought that I would park in the handicap spot, unload Amy, then hurry in to the story to reserve the scooter.
















After getting used to it, Amy scooted with the best of them, dodging kids, soccer moms and other fellow scooters with ease. The good news is that she'll be a pro when we need the scooter indefinitely.

We're Half Mexican

In case you didn't know it, Amy and I might be half Mexican. We could eat Mexican food 6 days a week without a doubt. Despite Amy's gimped up leg, tonight we decided to head out and grab some Mexican food.

I guess that everyone has their local Mexican "restaurant." When I say this, it can't just be any restaurant food serving up burritos or tacos; it has to be greasy, loaded with taco meat, and serving ice cold beer with a lime. Well, our local Mexican restaurant is Carmaba Cafe over on North Highland, which is a little family-owned place serving hot tacos, spicy salsa and tasty taco meat.

Amy was a total trooper tonight, crutching her way down three flights of stairs, across a parking lot and into the car. Then, through the restaurant and all the way back home again after we ate.

It was a great night and we invite to anyone to let us know their favorite mexican restaurant in the comments, tu comprende?

Dinner and drinks

What a great night! Damon and Katie came over and brought a wonderful meal to cook.

Amy and I needed a nice home cooked meal. We've been eating out more frequently than we usually do, so a nice home cooked meal was great. Though, I must admit, Amy's mother has been spoiling us with southern cooking and "mom" cooking that we have been without for some time.

Katie and Damon whipped up some great fish, baked vegetable medley, and baked corn. It was a wonderful dinner, and it was great seeing friends!

A Laborious Labor Day

Well, well, well. What a weekend. As you can see from the picture, the Labor Day weekend was not without incident. I can't tell you how much we were looking forward to a wonderful weekend in the Bahamas. As we all know, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Well, that's what happened here.


We flew directly from Atlanta to Marsh Harbor (via Miami), which was a lot easier than driving from Atlanta to Daytona then flying out from there. So, we got there Thursday afternoon, and had a wonderful first day.



Day 2: The real fun begins. We decided to go fishing off the coast that morning, so we all packed up and headed out for the day. Amy caught started off a great day with a nice Wahoo, which you can see in the pic.






We spent several hours hitting a couple of fishing holes that the Rentz's knew about, then decided to head towards a herd of boats we thought may know something that we didn't.





As we sped up, a series of swells popped the boat's bow in the air, which popped Amy up in the air. She popped up enough to almost get her feet underneath her. The boat then started to come up for another swell as she was coming down. The Result: Amy's broken leg. Fortunately, we were able to get the leg splinted with some life vest and a bait net. Sadly, my idea of using a "harpoon" was unsucessful. The local EMS met us at the shore after an hour long ride to shore. There, we got to a local doctors office where we x-rayed, attempted to reduce, then casted her leg.




After arriving back at the Rentz's house, we consulted with a few Orthopods who let us know that there wasn't much to do over the Labor Day weekend. Thus, we decided to stick around in the Bahamas for the weekend. Heck, if you have to sit around in a cast, it might as well be next to a pool, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean drinking Kaliks.

We made it home safely, and Amy had surgery on her leg several days later. She's doing well and can't wait to get back out on the water...yeah right.

(Dawn in Abaco)

Labor Day Weekend

Went to Bahamas. Broke my leg.
More to come!