Raspberry Pie and Ocean Breezes

So.. it was a Saturday morning in Vicksburg, Mississippi. I had just come home from teaching my class and we had the WHOLE day ahead of us to do something of great merit. We went down to the river to have a nice walk.... but after 2 seconds of walking we began sweating profusely and decided that today should be spent INDOORS! "Let's make a PIE!" Jon suggested. So we ran over to Kroger (the local grocer) and bought all the stuff. We'd never made a pie before... but it turned out SOOOO amazingly delicious! P.S. Like our make shift counter-top? yeah.. we are lacking counter space to say the least. But a washer and dryer work quite nicely!
White Chocolate Mousse Raspberry Pie!! MmmMmmm!

We had to eat our WHOLE pie in one day kuz Sunday we flew out to Monterey for a business trip that Jon had! (I made him take me along!) Monterey is BEAUTIFUL! The weather was absolutely perfect, and there was so much to do... We saw sea otters on the beach...

Jon had his first Dippin' Dot experience!
Yum!

Took a walk down Cannery Row...


Found a candy store! Yay!

Tried to be a dolphin ;)
Tried to not get wet...


But it didn't work so well :)
Sunset

And joined all the hippies at their Farmer Market! I love Monterey!

New Orleans for the Fourth of July!

Well, if any of you were wondering, the above picture describes the weather in New Orleans in July... near 106 degrees with humidity around 70%... it was quite a wet weekend :) Although it was terribly hot, we had a fun time! Jon had to be in Baton Rouge all this week, so we decided to head down early and spend the fourth of July weekend in New Orleans. The city was buzzing all day with activities down the Mississippi river front. We spent a lot of time outside walking through shops and hearing fun music on every corner, BUT also spent a lot of time INSIDE where there was air-conditioning... are feet were so tired we sat on anything and everything.. including big stacks of beer!

We met lots of interesting people... including Uncle and Aunt Sam :)

And free watermelon was DEFINITELY a perk!

And the best part was our dinner cruise on the Steamboat "Natchez"! They fed us amazing food- BBQ ribs, lime chicken, corn on the cob, potater salad, coleslaw, rolls, and of course- nanner puddin'! And to top off the night, we watched the fireworks on the steamboat from the river. HAPPY 4th!