We have photos!

I have a ton of photos but haven't had a chance to download them yet.

The snorkeling ones are classic.

We/re Back!

I think.

The cruise is over and we are just recovering.

We ate too much, we drank too much and we swam too much! It will take a few days to recover.

But some great pic's though.

Happy New Year guys!

For the record!

Nothing beats traveling first class.

It seems wasteful going first class just to florida but it was worth it. All it cost was some miles to upgrade and who needs miles. We get a ton of them because of purchasing from the store so it was well worth it.

We always worry about the weight of our bags and the charges for extra bags but this time it was no problem.We went to the premium curbside check in and the skycap guy goes "No problem sir." He loaded all our shit up without weighing it and gave us boarding passes and we went to the front of the line for security.

And we got breakfast while everyone else got a glass of water.

Suck it peasants.

Now I kind of understand it?

Living in Brooklyn the way I do I am isolated from what goes on in most of the country. You see I live in a neighborhood where stuff goes on much as it did in the 1950's. Or at least for me. I mean I don't spend all my time in front of the TV playing Xbox. I don't have a video console. I am sure that is a function of my age because I bet young kids here have them and play with them all day long. Since I don't really have contact with them I guess I am out of the loop.

Anyhoo I am down in Florida waiting to go on the ship on Saturday. While I am there a young relative was over the house. He is a teen who is home schooled. Not really socialized. Spent the whole time playing Xbox. I think it was Call of Duty |Zombie or something. The whole game consisted of him killing Zombies. Reloading and pulling the trigger. That was it. Nothing else.

You can't tell me this shit doesn't have an effect on the kids who do it 24-7. Not all of them obviously. But it just takes one or two. Killing without remorse. No real blood or guts. Just reloading and killing.

When I was a kid the person who taught me to shoot to us out and put a can of tomato sauce on a fence and had us shoot it. Sauce flew all over the place. He told us to imagine that was blood. With these video games there is no imagination. Only desensitization if that is a word.

I have to say that the people who say these video games have an effect on some of these shooters might have something there. I don't know what to do about it.

But watching this kid....I was getting scared.

It's time for another vacation!

Snookie and the Situation are packing for another vacation. When we were so busy in July and August with the show we booked a cruise for the whole family. And luckily paid for it. Hee.

We thought we would be fine because we had three employees and we would have coverage. Of course we had to get rid of two of them for stealing and now we are down to one. So we have to struggle to get another person to cover because we want two people in the store at all times. But it looks like we have it covered.

One night we were coming home from Enoteca and we had opened up the store to get our stuff out to bring home. We ran into one of Lisa's gays who told us he had just got laid off. Lisa has a bunch of gay guys who come by to say hello all the time because they love her and her style. Some of them are in the fashion biz and we buy fabric from them and what not. This guy works in the hotel biz and got laid off of his job. So I suggested we hire him to hang out in the store while we were away. He can be a presence hanging around and pick up a couple of bucks. The girls will feel more secure and it should work out fine.

I don't know if I will have internet on the cruise so I might be off the grid for a while. We are going down to Florida on Thursday so I will be posting until we get on the ship on Saturday morning.  I will probably be very productive since I will be lazying around on Friday so who knows?

The cruise will be through Christmas and New Years and we will be back in New York on January 2nd.

We kept saying one line all winter. "We are on the ship."

Soon we really will be.

It's time for another vacation!

I need to get away like I did when we went to Puerto Rico over the holidays.

The best part was I didn't have to cook!

We were able to hang out at the beach all day and then come back to the boat to dress up and have a great dinner. And not have to worry about cooking or even worse....cleaning up!

Now that's a freakin vacation!

I kind of like it when it's warm,

It's freakin' snow flurries today in Brooklyn and all I can think about is how warm it was on the beach. I mean things are great. "What Not to Wear" is going to film tomorrow in the store. Some really exciting things are right around the corner. But the dreary weather can kick your ass.

By the way. That is the really neat cane I picked up in Puerto Rico for when the leg is acting up which it did sometimes when we did a lot of walking. I left it in Florida so I have an emergency cane down there. Hee.

It's Lunch time and I wish I was in St Maartens!

We always seemed to find preety good lunch spots but the one in St Maartens was one of the best. It was right off the beach. They had a killer steak sandwich and lots of ice cold Presidente beer.

After I big lunch you went right to the beach, got a chair and the waiter kept bringing your beer.
I didn't even wait for an hour to go in the water.

I am a rebel.

Christmas in the Caribbean is weird

Christmas in the Caribbean is weird. It was hot but everything was mistletoe and holly. Right next to this Christmas tree was a dude playing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on a Jamaican Steel Drum.

Snooki and Situation back on board

Hey I didn't post the second Snookie and Situation photo where I was pointing to the sixpack.

Well to the keg.

Who needs a sixpack when you can have a keg. Just sayn'

Two pigs, no blanket

I don't know if you can tell but there is a whole pig in that tray. And another one standing in front of it waiting to order another sandwich. Just sayn'

Two peas in a pod.

The wife and the granddaughter are two peas in a pod. All they do is cook up trouble to get us in.
They just like to have fun. Which is allright in my book.

Puerto Rican Sandwiches

I don't know if I used this photo before but is a great memory. We met our good friend Zuley in San Juan and she took us to this great place called Espana which was a bakery/lunch spot. They had some great sandwiches which I am about to glom. Mine was pastrami with manchego. Plus pasteles. Man that is good eating.

We are planning a trip back soon.

Two ships are better than one!

It was kind of weird at Turks and Caicos as the boat drove right up to the beach. The water was deep enough for these Giant Ocean Liners to dock right at a beach. So you walked right off the boat and went to the beach. Which was the worst beach of the whole trip. The water was nice but there were a lot of rocks when you walked into the water.

The two ships stayed in tandem all the way back to Miami so that was pretty cool.

Hey more cruise photos!

I am stuck on my day off in the store waiting for deliveries so I figure the best thing to do is post more cruise photos!

Finally in St Maarten's!

We finally make it to St Maarten. Off to the bar!

Hey I am just gonna take the sun.

Hey I am just gonna put my fish belly white legs out there while I take the sun in my Christmas Hawaiian shirt and my Bermuda shorts!

While there is a blizzard in New York bitches!!!!!

Hey don't eat that!

Hey don't try to eat the gingerbread house Christmas town. Read the sign. It is not edible! Read the sign stupid.

It's the Christmas buffet!

It's the Christmas buffet and Santa is made out of watermelon.

Hey we have a black president. Just sayn'