I think my Mom and I could have gotten home faster from London than Key West! If you followed me on Instagram over my vacation (my bizzy kitchen – thank you if you did!) you’ll know that my Mom and I left to go to the airport on Key West at 10:00 a.m. on Monday and I finally drove into my driveway at 5:00 p.m. last night. We were flying United, but with the connection, you have to fly Silver Airlines. DO NOT FLY SILVER AIRLINES! We had delays both going there and coming home, and it’s bullshit that weather was an issue because the whole state of Florida was sunny and USAir, American and Delta flights were leaving all around us.
Such a terrible way to end a vacation, but there are worse world problems, right?!
While I mostly took a blog/internet break, I did remind people on Facebook to vote for my Cheezy Italian Beef Pizza for the Sebastiani Pizza My Way Contest. Voting ended on March 2 – the pizza with the most votes automatically wins $1500! Pretty sure I’ll get the call today about that – ha! Today is the pizza tasting at their winery. They have a local chef making all eight pizzas, and it’s a combination of online votes, the tasting and the judges panel – check out the judges here!
This is going to be a short post – still tired from the two day trip getting home and I have to go to work today. My goal for my vacation was to maintain my weight, and I am considering this a success!
To only gain .6 pounds when I ate dessert several times while on vacation – and I am normally not a dessert person at all! But we did a lot of bike riding, walking and swimming, so that helped. Um, I may have taken 943 pictures last week! I need to figure out how to download them to my computer – I finally was able to upgrade my phone and now have the iPhone 6+ – it has an amazing camera!
I can now take panoramic pictures – this is where my Mom and I watched the sunset on Saturday night – absolutely gorgeous!
And I had a great time hanging out with my Aunt and Cousin – lots more pictures to come in the next few days! And I really enjoyed spending so much time with my Mom – I really wish you would just leave a comment on this post and just make it official that I am your favorite child! I love you!
Well, I am off to shower, pack my gym bag and get back to the swing of things – I’ll catch up with all of you guys in the next few days to see what you’ve been up to since I’ve been gone.
Make it a great day!
Welcome back! I loved following along on Instagram!!
Glad you made it home safe and sound. And LOVE the pics. I crack up when you say you are your mom’s favorite child!!! Sending a hug your way Vat. (btw, got your card earlier this week…thank you for thank you! xo)
Welcome back, Biz! Isn’t that the best when you don’t gain on vacation? I always go in with the mindset that I’ll gain 5 and to work at it when I get back.
Our flight back from New Orleans was canceled, so we had to stay an extra night – DARN! 🙂 We couldn’t figure out how weather was an issue, but sometimes the plane is coming in from another area where weather is an issue and that’s the hold up. Oh well, we made it back safe and sound.
Aren’t you loving the new iPhone 6 camera? I wish I had it when we were in Oz!
Welcome home! So happy you and your Mom had such a great vacation. I enjoyed your photo’s on FB and Instagram.
I use Dropbox for transferring my photo’s from my phone to my computer. You install it on both. I have set it up that it only downloads photo’s to my computer when I have Wifi access, this way you don’t use data on your phone. For me it works perfect.
Welcome back! Sorry you had such a shitty time getting home. You were definitely missed, but I loved checking in with all of your fun on Instagram!
Welcome home!
Glad you had a nice vacation with your mom!
Welcome home!
So glad you had a great vacation & I’m looking forward to seeing more pics! Got my fingers crossed for you on the pizza contest! 😀
Welcome home!!! I loved seeing all of your pictures and trying to soak warmth through the screen!!!
Glad you had such a good time even with flight delays!!!
Those sure are some spectacular photos! Looking forward to seeing more. 🙂 Good to see the email notification for your post today – missed reading your blog! Hope you had a great time!
SO glad you had a good time! Enjoyed seeing all the IG pictures
Welcome back to the cold….but I am glad you had a wonderful break in the warmth. Your pictures are gorgeous, I saved the bird flying to my files….really liked that. Hope you win with your pizza. Those Chefs/judges look pretty impressive!!!!
Glad to read you made it home safely, even with all the delays. Followed your instagram posts and it looks lovely in Key West. Just a 0.6 gain – Wow! Way to go girl! It’s supposed to warm up in the next few days – Yes!!
Yay, you’re back! Ugh to the air travel snafu, but good to hear the actual trip was nice. Looking forward to your pictures! (p.s. I do the icloud photo sharing thing to get my pictures from my phone to my computer – there might be an easier way but I haven’t figured it out yet).
Welcome back! Enjoyed your instagram posts – thanks for sharing your wonderful trip!
Have a great day – Spring is just around the corner 🙂
Thank goodness, I missed you with my morning coffee. 🙂 OK, now to read the post. Though, sure looks like you had a great visit from your Instagram posts.
Good morning. You have a beautiful mom! I hope you enjoyed your vacation. It’s good to have a change of pace once in awhile.