Weekend fun with Shannon

Our good friend Shannon came to town to hang out with us over Labor Day weekend. Hooray! It was awesome to get to see her again. The last time we got together was at our wedding in April (Shannon was the Maid of Honor).

We started out Sunday at the Beach Place (on the beach!) where we ate at Lulu's Baitshack. They had red beans and rice with andouille sausage!! It's my favorite cajun food. MMMM!



We rode on the Water Taxi for only $5 and got a great tour of the big houses on the intercoastal waterway. There are some monsterously huge houses with equally gargantuan yachts out there. The guide said some people pay over $20,000 per month in property taxes. That is insane!

We got off the taxi at River Walk, but we had just eaten so we walked down to the art festival on Las Olas Boulevard. The streets were closed to traffic so the vendors could set up tents in the road. It was...interesting. The art was neat, but the people were fascinating! There was a couple bicycling through that really caught our attention: the guy was wearing boxer breifs and shoes. That's it. Oh, and a fanny pack--where else would he keep his wallet? We figured they were foreign--it's just not socially acceptable in most of the U.S. to ride around in your underwear.

Other notable events were:
- dinner at the Cheesecake Factory
- the extremely-ethnic food court at the fancy-pants Aventura Mall
- a huge sale at Macy's/Burdines
- Scatergories ("items in a desk" starting with a k??)
- walking to the Cold Stone Creamery to burn off the calories from the delicious icecream

On Tuesday morning, Shannon went back to Kentucky to her huge cat Leo. Thanks for coming! Come see us again soon!!