Desperately Seeking Gina

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…Meet my New Friends

It’s beginning to look a lot like Wild America around here.

Old friends, meet my newest friend. His name is Earl. He’s pretty shy. He was hanging out behind the new old house and crawling through some leaves by the stone walkway. Hope he wasn’t offended that I refused to shake his paw…hand…arm..ummm…leg?

Not that one should play favorites with new friends….but I just love this other new friend I made while I was in Michigan. We met in the garden section of Meijer. His name is Otto. {Hmmm…I’m sensing a trend with all my new male friends}. And, again, for the record, Mr. Meijer…please, please bring Meijer to Arkansas!

For now, Otto is hanging out by the cool stone walkway that runs along the back of the house. I’m hoping to give him a permanent home down at the gate at the end of the driveway.

…Greek Food Festival

Friday was an awesome day to head down to Little Rock to enjoy the Greek Food Festival. It has rained almost every day for the last three weeks. Seriously– Like 13 out of 16 days of rain or something. We were offered a reprieve from the rain on Friday and rewarded with blue skies and high temps–90 in L. R.

It was the first day of the festival and the crowd was fairly thin. We were able to eat right away…and the falafels were awesome!

The baklava was D E L I S H. Chocolate for me….original for Thom.

After eating, we toured the marketplace and checked out these hand painted eggs….some were intricately painted real eggs:

and some were wooden eggs:

We were able to tour the Greek Orthodox Church. It was magnificently beautiful:

No trip to Little Rock would be complete without a stop at the Scrapbook Corner, Kroger {to buy our fave falafel mix}, and an Indian grocery store to pick up some awesome pita bread. Care to guess what we had for lunch today?

Hope y’all had a fabulous weekend. Tell me about it in comments!

More photos at My Flickr Account!

P.S.

I added some pics of Thom’s pico de gallo to the post below since “just” talking about how good it is doesn’t do it justice. Tell him how awesome he is and he just may make some for ya sometime!

…What I’ll do to get on Idol

You may remember that I work in Conway {an hour away from Heber}…home of American Idol finalist Kris Allen. I was excited when I heard that Idol would be in town filming the hometown parade….and I would actually be able to head downtown to check things out.


It was a fun afternoon. It seems that the whole of Conway turned out to see their hometown hero….and everyone seemed to know him personally, either from school or from church and I heard nothing but good things about him all day long. He’s definitely my fave of the final three {I was rooting for Anoop}. Although…I thought perhaps he could’ve worn a cleaner shirt.


I waited along the parade route, smooshed up against a fence for a couple of hours. The local Fox affiliate, Fox 16 news had crews out exciting the crowd and interviewing fans….and since I wasn’t stopped and asked how I felt about the whole ‘Idol’ thing….I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to get on camera. So, when Jeremy Baker was out hyping up the crowd, I spontaneously shouted out “Jeremy will you marry me?” so that they’d turn the camera to my side of the crowd. To my emberrassment, the crowd went quiet right as I shouted the fake proposal. My face instantly turned beet red. And he turned around and said “what?” and then ran over to me with his camera guy and told me to shout it into the camera again, as if he were far away. So…I looked into the camera and shouted it again. Alas, I didn’t ever make the news…but perhaps I’ll be on some Jeremy Baker blooper reel someday!

I have a few more photos posted here.