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Magical Omelettes

Otherwise known as omelettes in a bag.  I do indeed think they're quite magical and I've taken to calling them as such, so feel free to follow suit.  My mom told us about these magical omelettes a few months ago (I think she watched it on Paula Deen) and Jon was reminded of them while researching easy breakfast foods for camping. 

For each omelette, you will need:

• 2 eggs
• 1 quart sized freezer bag
• various add-ins, such as shredded cheese, chopped onions, tomatoes, ham, mushrooms, etc...

Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil.  You will need enough water to cover the bags and a pot large enough to hold several bags without them touching the sides.  We used a large crab pot (stock pot) and cooked about 4 omelettes at a time.

While the water is coming to a boil, crack 2 eggs into a freezer bag.  Smoosh the bag until the eggs are thoroughly "beaten", then add any toppings you like.  Again, smoosh the bag to mix the ingredients then seal the bag, making sure to get all of the air out. 

Drop the bag into the pot of boiling water, but be sure the bag doesn't touch the side of the pot as this will make it melt.  Boil for about 5-10 minutes until the omelette is cooked to your liking.  Remove the bag from the pot with tongs then let cool for about a minute before opening the bag and sliding the omelette onto a plate. 

Voilá!

Like I mentioned, we cooked our omelettes in a pot over a campfire and they turned out great!  They were a big hit and everyone was amazed at how easy they were to make and how they taste like the real deal.  Minus the time it took to get the water boiling over the campfire, they were a cinch to make because we had all of our ingredients pre-chopped and ready to go.  The only thing I would do differently is to cook the onions and peppers just a bit before adding them in, but they were still cooked and soft without doing that.  I just tend to like the taste of sautéed veggies better.

I think these magical omelettes would be wonderful at an early morning tailgate or a sleepover where you have many mouths to feed in a short amount of time.  Plus, it's fun to let your guests get involved with the smooshing and ingredient add-ins.  Enjoy!

Grace Vingt et un & Grace Vingt-deux

I think I love baking so much because the idea of making something from nothing is magical, especially when they turn out as cute as these cupcake bites.

They were a huge hit at my friend's birthday party as well as at work.  Those are regular M&M's on top, to give you an idea of their size.

They were actually pretty easy to make, just very tedious.  But don't they just make you smile?

Something else that I find to be quite magical is my crockpot.  What else will turn a couple of pounds of raw meat, cabbage, potatoes, onions, carrots and spices into a yummy, homecooked meal in a matter of five hours without any effort?

Corned beef and cabbage, the delicious way to celebrate St. Patrick's day, especially when made with Guiness! 

Grace Douze

Mmmm...cupcakes! No explanation necessary :)

Moving On...

My posts have been quite photo-heavy lately, but I just couldn't resist sharing a few pictures from the Virginia Wine Showcase last weekend before I get on with my post. 

We were joined by our wonderful friends Allison and Ryan and Adam and Adrienne.  Adrienne used to be Jon's roommate when he lived in Atlanta and she and her husband live just a few miles from us now!  I don't think I've ever shared the story of how Allison and I met, but it is truly such an interesting and fateful one.  I know I already owe you all our engagement story, but I'll share my Allison story someday too. 

As is customary, I found my favorite wine pourer, Andy, from Peaks of Otter Winery and took another picture with him.  Remember my first and second encounters?

 

The rest of our weekend, and subsequently, this week, has been spent preparing our condo to be listed on the market.  Ready or not, it's going to be listed next Wednesday!  Well, I lie, we're actually super ready.  We ended up going with the first realtor we met with, the one with the blog and the one whom we've known from his open houses in our community for the past few years.  We really trust him and know that he has a good handle on selling condos in our area and we feel that he has our best interests at heart and is not just out to make a buck on our listing. 

We've had just about a month now to accept our fate and to formulate a plan and now we just want to get this over and done with as quickly and painlessly as possible.  I met with our realtor-provided stager on Tuesday night and really had such a fun time seeing our home through the eyes of a potential buyer.  The stager said that we have a lovely home and though she usually gives her clients a Top Ten list of areas to improve and focus on, she could only come up with eight minor things that even she confessed was a stretch! 

In fact, we've only heard positive things from everyone we've worked with so far.  My favorite comment was from a realtor who said that you could tell the instant you walk into someone's home if it's just a house to them or a place they're really proud of and enjoy living in and she said we were obviously part of the latter.  I love hearing stuff like that because Jon and I are so proud of the way we made our little condo our home and it's nice to have others recognize that.  Once our place sells, we will be moving in with my parents for at least 3-6 months or so to rebuild our losses and then we'll resume our search for a new home.  Despite everything, we're optimistic and happy and are really looking forward to the next chapter in our lives.   

St. Lucia and Barbados

For San Juan, St. Thomas and St. John, click here and for St. Maarten and Antigua, click here. 

We had a bit of rain in St. Lucia, but that didn't stop us from going into town and exploring a bit.  We did some window shopping, then found a tiny little bar that overlooked the sea.  Jon and stopped in for a beer (Piton, the national beer, named after their famous mountain peaks!) and watched the rain fall until it finally dwindled into sunshine.  Typical St. Lucian weather!

 

St. Lucia is often described as the Hawaii of the Caribbean, and if you've ever been to Hawaii, you'll understand why.  It's very tropical and green with lush plants covering the rolling hills and mountain peaks.  It's breathtakingly beautiful with small lagoons scattered about, surrounded by colorful houses. 

 

This trip marked our first time back to St. Lucia since our honeymoon in September 2006.  We actually went to two islands on our honeymoon because Jon and I both felt very strongly about where we wanted to go so we figured, why not do both?  You only go on your honeymoon once, right?!  Jon picked St. Lucia and we decided to go there first because the atmosphere seemed more relaxed and secluded and we figured we would need that after the excitement of our wedding!  It was perfect.  (In case you're wondering, we went to my pick, Jamaica, for the other half of our honeymoon.)

Imagine my surprise when our cruise ship sailed out of port and we passed right by the Sandal's resort we stayed at!  I took over 40 pictures because I was so excited, but I managed to narrow it down to one for you all to see.  Notice that blue building peaking over the right side of the main building?  Jon is convinced that was our honeymoon villa.  It was definitely around there somewhere, but I'm not so sure that was the villa.  Regardless, it was pretty cool to see that place where we spent our first week as husband and wife.

 

I took this picture of Jon as we were sailing out of port.  Rain brings rainbows and this was one of many of the gorgeous ones that we saw throughout the week.  Doesn't hurt that it's right behind my gorgeous husband too!

 

This was the only group portrait that we managed to get the whole week.  The only time you're ever really all in one place is when you're at dinner and this is exactly when it was taken.  From top to bottom, left to right:  Joani (my mother-in-law), Eric (my father-in-law), Linda (my mom), me, Jon, John (my dad), Tiffany (my cousin-in-law) and Bradley (my cousin).  We really had such a good time with everyone.  I couldn't have asked for better and more fun-loving parents, in-laws or cousins and of course, my incredible husband who loves to travel as much as I do!  I'm such a lucky girl.

 

Our very last port of call was Barbados and it was certainly worth the wait.  We took our third and final snorkeling trip here where we visited a popular sea turtle hangout and a shipwreck.  Can you make out the skate (kind of like a stingray, but mainly found in warm seawater) in the sand below?

 

We also saw another beautiful rainbow from end to end.  I haven't seen this many rainbows since my family and I visited Scotland when I was younger!

 

We waited and waited and waited for a turtle to come and I had just given up and gotten back on the boat when one finally decided to visit.  I jumped back in for a closer look and it was really one of the coolest things I've seen.  It glided so gracefully through the water and was such a serene and peaceful creature.

 

The shipwreck was actually a submerged barge that was sunk there as an artificial reef.  All of the wrecks Jon and I have dived and snorkeled on have been submerged barges, but they're still pretty cool because they attract a lot of fish. 

 

After we were done snorkeling, we went to a beautiful beach with our rum punch in hand.  Here I am looking for more seashells.  The racerback on my bikini is totally what made me fall in love with it.  I think it's safe to say that this is my favorite swimsuit EVER! 

Now this is what I call paradise.  Just look at the blue of that water and the sand on the beach.  That's our boat in the distance.  And of course, rum punch in hand!

 

I found these baby hermit crabs when I was searching for seashells.  They were so tiny and they tickled when they crawled across my hands. 

 

If I were ever stranded on a deserted island, Jon is definitely the person I would want to be stranded with me.  Especially if he brought rum punch along too! :)

 

This was the view of Barbados from our ship.  Isn't it exquisite?  I would love to spend a whole week there.

 

The second formal dinner on the cruise was that night and I finally got to wear my emerald dress!  I love it so much that I think I'll be wearing it to every wedding we attend this year!  May as well get my money's worth.

 

This was the very last picture I took, the striking view from our balcony.  Le sigh.  Until next time, Caribbean. 

 

St. Maarten and Antigua

To start at the beginning in San Juan, St. Thomas and St. John, click here.

I think St. Maarten is my favorite port of call.  They have it all; white sandy beaches, warm, calm water and lots of duty-free shopping, all within walking distance or a short water taxi ride away from the dock.  It's a trifecta of awesomeness!  In the bottom of the photo below, you can just make out the construction area of the new dock being built in anticipation of the Genesis of the Seas, Royal Caribbean's newest ship.  When the ship is completed, it will be the largest cruise ship in the world, with a passenger capacity of 6,400!  Jon has already decided that we'll be cruising on it at some point. 

The first thing we did upon arriving in St. Maarten was renting beach chairs and an umbrella for the day.  When you walk along the boardwalk, you are immediately met by locals trying to get you to sit in their chairs.  Jon and I have learned from previous visits to hold out and keep walking until you get to the chairs with the nice cushions, about halfway down the boardwalk.  We were able to rent four chairs, two umbrellas along with a bucket of 6 beers for only $20!  We bargained them down to that, of course!  That's the secret in the Caribbean...never pay what they ask for because they are always willing to go down in price.

We were some of the first people to arrive so we snagged a prime waterfront spot.  (Remember the purple bikini that I just had to have?  This is it!)

 

The beer of choice in St. Maarten, and much of the Caribbean, is Carib.  It comes with a lime and tastes very similar to Corona.  Very delicious and refreshing.

This is a side view of our beautiful ship at dock.  Believe or not, this class of ship is one of the smaller classes that Royal Caribbean boasts.

 

Jon and I always have to take this same sort of picture in the water.  He must have been a few beers in because he took about seven of these and this was the best one!

 

I remember taking this picture, trying to capture the gorgeous turquoise color of the water.  I didn't think it turned out until I uploaded and saw that it was pretty accurate.

Our next port of call was Antigua, an island which we considered honeymooning on.  We took our second snorkeling excursion with my parents and got to experience the beautiful water around the island.  They dropped anchor quite far out and the sea was a bit rough, but it was such a great experience.  One of the snorkeling guides actually led me far away from the group on my own private tour of the reef.  I grabbed his hand and we spent a good ten minutes snorkeling over spiny sea urchin and following colorful schools of fish.  The same guide later found a huge sand dollar for me and presented it to me on the boat. 

Jon is great in the water and has no trouble going all the way down to the bottom so that I can take fun pictures of him.  If you've noticed, all the pictures of me snorkeling are taken from below.  I just can't seem to dive down under the water when I have a life vest on!  I just bobble right back to the top!

 

This reef had a lot of beautiful plants and bright blue fish.  You can see one peeking out of a nook below.

Once we were back on board, our captain and crew served us pimiento cheese sandwiches and you guessed it, rum punch!  Jon and I sat on the front of the catamaran enjoying our treats and watched a storm roll in beside us.  A funny note about snorkeling excursions and rum punch...you will not be served any rum punch until after the snorkeling part of your trip is done.  There will be no drunk snorkeling!

 

They sailed the catamaran right onto the beach where we spent some time sunbathing and enjoying the water.  I love the photo of my mom below.  Can you see the heart shape surrounding her in the water?

 

This is typically how you'll find me on any beach, hunched over looking for seashells.  There are some beaches where you aren't allowed to collect shells as they are protected under the Natural Wildlife laws, but most of the beaches we visited had a plethora of seashells for the taking.  I'll share what I did with my collection of shells in a later post.

 

In case you're wondering what the staterooms are like on the cruise, here is what ours looked like.  It's quite small, but you're really only in there to shower and sleep.  For the first time in our brief cruising history, we had a room with a balcony and absolutely loved it!  I would go out on it every morning to greet the day and we also hung out on it in the evenings, while getting ready for dinner.  We would order a cheese plate from room service (FREE!) and enjoy a red bull and vodka while sitting in our chairs and watching the sea below us. 

For those of you who might not know this, Jon proposed to me on our very first cruise together, just about in the same spot where I'm standing.  Aww!  I actually don't think I've ever told the proposal story on here, so I'll have to share that at some point.

 

Also, please note my running shoes and workout clothes...we ran two miles on the outdoor track almost every day.  It was a great way to burn all those extra calories we were consuming!

On this night, we had our "Repeater's Party" which is Royal Caribbean's way of thanking you for cruising with them again and being members of their Crown & Anchor Society.  You get to meet the Captain and there are trays of free drinks and hors d'oeuvres floating around.  I made Jon take this picture of a carved watermelon for me...go Richmond Spiders!

I enjoyed many glasses of free champagne at the party, thankyouverymuch!

 

Coming up in my next post, our last two destinations of St. Lucia and Barbados.  Don't miss it!

San Juan, St. Thomas and St. John

Since I have so many photos that I want to share with you all, I'm going to do it a couple of destinations at a time... (click on photos to enlarge, if you fancy)

Our trip began in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico.  In anticipation of the gorgeous weather, I boarded the plane wearing a safari dress over leggings, which I stripped off as soon as we landed.  It was wise choice in theory, but I forgot to consider that the metal buttons would set off the alarms in security resulting in a lovely body pat-down by the lady TSA agent. 

Our hotel was just a few blocks from the beach, which we took advantage of as soon as we dropped our luggage off in our room.  We stopped at a tiny, yet busy, restaurant en route to the beach where Jon and I shared a mofongo.  What's a mofongo, you ask?  It's pure deliciousness, that's what it is!  Really though, it's a native Puerto Rican dish of plantains mashed with olive oil and various spices and includes a meat of your choice.  We opted for chicken and wasted no time in scarfing it down.  I was really proud of myself on this vacation because I stepped out of my normal food boundaries almost every single day.  A cruise is the perfect time to do this because your meals are included in the cost and really, if you don't like it, you can send it back, or if you have a husband like Jon, he'll finish it for you!

Compared to other islands, this was an expensive rental fee for a chair and umbrella for the day.  I couldn't resist this picture though.

 

After lunch and our stroll on the beach, we caught a taxi to Old San Juan, one of my favorites cities in the Caribbean.  You may remember my photos from last year.  I just can't resist the beautiful colors of their homes.

Wouldn't you just love to relax on this balcony every morning?

 

Before we knew it, Saturday was upon us and we were finally able to board our ship.  We were on the Serenade of the Seas, which is a sister ship to the one we were on last year, Jewel of the Seas.  Jon tends to like the bigger ships because they have more to do on board and well, they're just larger, but I really love this class of ship because it's more intimate and you end up making friends with total strangers.

Our first port of call was St. Thomas, famous for it's duty-free shopping and gorgeous beaches.  You can sign up for excursions on the cruise (mini day trips) and St. Thomas held the first of the three excursions that we had planned throughout the week.  It turned out to be our favorite of our whole cruise, and quite possibly, out of all of our cruising experiences. 

We boarded a gorgeous catamaran in the port of Charlotte Amalie and it whisked us away to a beautiful snorkeling spot over a reef. 

Guess who joined us on our little adventure?  Yes, that's Pleepleus with the beautiful Charlotte-Amalie in the background!

 

On the way to our snorkeling spot, we sailed past none other than Eric Clapton!  Well, who knows if he was actually in there, but that is most definitely his private yacht according to our guide!

 

I had the forethought to sneak a roll from breakfast and used this to lure fish to me as we snorkeled in the sparkling turquoise water.  A handy trick learned from various SCUBA guides!

 

The fish below was Jon's favorite and he tailed it for a few minutes, getting some awesome shots in the process.  Just look at the teeth on it!  By the way, Jon's underwater camera case for his Canon was my Christmas gift to him.  He had one for his old Canon, but needed a new one for his new camera that he got for his birthday.  It takes wonderful pictures and can even go deep enough for SCUBA diving, though we didn't dive on this trip.

 

This school of fish loved my roll!

After snorkeling, the catamaran sailed us to a picturesque beach on St. John (another island to check off our list!).  Jon has carved our names in a heart on the sand on just about every beach he's visited, just one of the many reasons I love this man!  Unfortunately, this one got blurred by some water drops, but you get the idea.

Le sigh...isn't this dreamy?  And yes, totally posed!

 

One of the best parts of our excursion (or any excursion for that matter), was the rum punch that was served for our sail back to Charlotte-Amalie.  You will never taste the same rum punch twice in the Caribbean, of this I'm sure.  The version we had on this trip had nutmeg grated on top of it, making it slightly spicy which I loved!  We actually chose to do this excursion because it was described as a Champagne Catamaran Sail to St. John, with cheese and bread served as well.  All I had to read was champagne and cheese and I was sold!  Though I actually ended up drinking more rum punch than champagne (even though I'm not a rum drinker!) because it was just that good. 

This is what happens when you get a bunch of tourists drunk on rum punch on a catamaran cruise, then send them on their way back to town on a route that includes a terrifying stretch of road named Donkey Hill.  It was such a fun group of people!  I wish we had taken a video so that you could hear the "woo-hoo's!" and see the whole busload raise their hands in unison on every dip!

 

Drunk, no?  And don't you just love how the windows on the bus are heart shaped?

 

I had so much rum punch that shortly thereafter, I purchased a Bernard K. Passman piece in town that I never knew I wanted!  It is absolutely gorgeous, though it did blow my whole cruise budget in our very first port of call!  At least it's a collector's item!

After some shopping, we got back on board and Jon joined one of the poolside activities.  That boy never sits down!  I opted to enjoy a margarita instead.

It was our first formal night on the cruise, which I love and Jon abhors.  He has to wear a suit for work every day so it's not really a treat for him to do it while on vacation.  I, on the other hand, will find any excuse to don a pretty party dress!

I adore this photo of Jon's mom with her two favorite men...aren't they cute?  And wowza, doesn't Jon look just like his dad?!

 

Here's me with my parents, though my dad is making a funny face.  It's really so much fun to have our parents come along.  Now if only we could convince the rest of our families!  My cousin Brad and his wife Tiffany did join us for this cruise (so fun to have another couple our age along!), but they were celebrating Brad's birthday in a different restaurant that night.

 

Stay tuned tomorrow for St. Maarten and Antigua!

Ringing in 2009

I have always wanted to "do it up big" for New Year's.  Wear a fluffy party dress, toot on a paper horn and dance the night away with a never-ending supply of champagne and jumbo cocktail shrimp.  Jon and I are planners in most every way, except we never seem to make New Year's plans until about a week prior when most of our friends have had their plans in the works for months.  We usually just end up going out to dinner and heading home to drink and watch the ball drop in the comfort of sweatpants, which is in no way inferior, and hell, which I might prefer anyway, but sometimes a girl just wants to get dolled up, you know?

Considering that this might be our last New Year's celebration sans La Petite Bebé, we decided that this was the year to do it up big.  As luck would have it, our friends Allison (the friend who was with me the night Jon and I met) and Ryan also wanted to do something fancy this year as New Year's Eve also happens to be their anniversary.  I actually missed their wedding two years ago after catching the worst stomach bug I've ever had in my life (lost 5 pounds in 2 days from all of the vomiting!) so I was so thrilled that I would finally get the chance to celebrate with them.  We decided to go to a hotel that overlooks the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.  The hotel's fancy restaurant (where they had their rehearsal dinner) was actually hosting a celebration where there would be delicious food, an open bar, live music and fireworks over the water!  Just what we were looking for!

The night started off wonderfully with Allison and I getting ready simultaneously just the way I used to get ready for Homecoming with my best girlfriends.  So much fun to have girly time!  She just had their baby Matthew in July; doesn't she look gorgeous?

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(I'm wearing my new J.Crew Ballerina dress that I got on ebay for only $50!  It's a bit poofy but it makes me feel like I'm in Center Stage!)

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It was an adventure getting to the hotel as the Metro decided to just skip our stop.  Well, I mean, the train stopped but it didn't let anyone on or off!  Lovely.  So we hopped out at the next station and as we were trying to hail a cab, a sketchy passenger van pulled up beside us the man inside called out to us, "Hop in, I can take you!"  Allison and I looked at each other with a look that said "Like hell we're getting in some strange van!" but Jon and Ryan talked to the driver, deemed it safe and we all jumped in!  The man tried to convince us that he was some sort of undercover cop, but it was quite obvious that he was just a wanna-be.  He had binoculars and a radio and told us how he tried to join the regular police force for 20 years but they never let him in.  Uh-huh.  You should have seen the look on the doorman's face when we pulled up to the hotel and all of us in our shiny dresses and suits popped out of a beat-up van...hilarious!

The spread of appetizers they had out was simply amazing.  In included Maryland crab legs (yum!), jumbo shrimp, Waldorf salad in martini glasses, sushi and the best cream of crab soup I've ever tasted.  Everything was so delicious and I pretty much filled up on the appetizers.  There was an unfortunate incident where Jon accidentally hit the end of his spoon which was resting in the cream of crab soup and a huge spoonful flung through the air and landed in my lap.  As in on my new dress.  Thank god I was wearing black.  I love Jon's "oops!" face in the picture below, taken right after it happened.

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As I mentioned, the hotel is in the beautiful Inner Harbor and the restaurant had huge windows overlooking the water.  Unfortunately, it was so windy that night that the city of Baltimore called off the fireworks display.  It was a bit disappointing but the view was still spectacular. 

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  We had a wonderful dinner with salmon and some sort of beef and couscous and a whole bunch of stuff that I don't remember because by the time we decided to eat, we had already downed a lot of the bubbly stuff.  Before we knew it, the band was counting down the last dwindling seconds of 2008 and then it was an all out celebration.  Horns were tooting, noise makers were rattling and Allison had somehow managed to snag our very own private bottle of champagne!  The photo below shows the reason why Jon takes all of our self-portraits...my arms are too short!

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Thanks to my Wii Fit training, I was able to hula hoop one of the zeroes from the 2009 balloons that had been hanging so nicely above the bar.

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And then it was time to leave, both the restaurant and 2008.  I have a feeling that 2009 is going to be our best year yet.  We have so many exciting plans for it already!

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Pumpkin Pie Dip

We had a appetizer-themed potluck at work today and I've been fretting over what to bring because I love appetizers and have so many yummy recipes to choose from.  I finally decided on a wonderfully creative recipe that I found on RecipeZaar last month.  It's quick, easy and best of all, it's a cold appetizer so I didn't have to worry about how to heat it up at work. 

Pumpkin Pie Dip

 

Ingredients:

• 1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 (15 ounce) can of pumpkin pie filling
• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon of ground ginger
• apple slices
• gingersnaps

Directions:

1.  Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.

2.  Add pumpkin pie filling, cinnamon and ginger, beating well.

3.  Cover and chill for 8 hours.

4.  Serve with apple slices and gingersnaps.

I served the dip in a carved out mini pumpkin which all of my co-workers raved about.  It was really so simple to make and the pumpkin gave the dip a little extra oomph!  The only thing I would do differently next time around is to add the pumpkin pie filling a little bit at a time because the consistency was a little thinner than I would have liked.  It was still absolutely heavenly.  I'll definitely be making this as a pre-dinner appetizer for Thanksgiving, but it would also be great for a Halloween party or even before Christmas dinner!

 

Tasteful, Yet Hot

Oktoberfest was wundervoll; the beer was ice cold and fresh and the weather was just perfect!  Here's proof of how much fun we had:

(Click here, then go to photo #11.) 

 

The reporter for MetroMix came up to me and announced, "You definitely win the prize for the most tasteful fraülein at Oktoberfest!"  He got the backstory on my outfit a little confused, but for the most part, it's all true.  I bought my dirndl on Craigslist for $10 from a woman who bought it as a German exchange student 40 years ago!  She advertised it as a size 10 but it looked teeny tiny in the pictures so I figured I would give it a shot.  As luck would have it, it fit my size 00 body almost perfectly!!

Originally, it was down to my ankles and since I didn't want to be a total prude, I decided to take it apart and shorten it to my knees.  I don't have a sewing machine, but I do have a steady stitch and it turned out looking pretty fabulous!  99% of the other girls dressed as fraüleins had the skanky Halloween costumes on and while I do own that version as well, I didn't think it would be the best choice to wear with my parents joining us.  Jon also got a lot of attention from his super, awesome "Das Boot" tee-shirt and I only wish he would have been around when that reporter found me! 

We were quite the pair!

 

P.S.  Notice anything different about my hair?  I got bangs on Friday!