I love cotton candy! But seriously, who doesn’t?

While getting a wedding gift for a friend this weekend at Bed, Bath, & Beyond I saw this:

You can use the granulated cotton candy sugar or any hard candy. How cool is that? I wanted to buy it but unfortunately had my husband with me. He suggested I put it on my birthday list. So I guess for my 30th Birthday I’m getting a cotton candy maker.

The other cool cotton candy item that I saw this week is:

Cotton Candy Cupcake Kits from World Market – featured on Cupcakes Take the Cake

I love a mind-numbing picture intensive website and Young Me, Now Me is just that.  It’s basically reenactment photos and some are pretty funny.  Number 354 is my fav!

What you all have been waiting for…..

Fira, Santorini from the Brilliance of the Seas.  Santorini was another port where we had to use the tender boats.  Kenny and I got up very early and once again were one of the first people off the boat.  (A tip in Santorini, you can sleep in an extra hour or two, when we got there nothing was open yet.)

To get from the port to Fira you obviously have to travel up.  There are three options, the first is that you can walk up the windy road in the left side of this picture.

The second option is that you can ride a donkey.  Oh and for those considering option one, the donkey’s use the same windy road.

The third option, cable car.  Which is obviously the option that we chose.  Although it was a pretty scary ride.  I’m not afraid of heights, Kenny is.  I am afraid of craftsmanship.

Kenny and I debated before the trip what we were going to do in Santorini.  We thought about an excursion, an ATV, a car, a beach buggy.  And in the end….

We rented a convertible smart car.  We had the car for about 5 hours which gave us plenty of time to drive all around the island.  The rental place gave us a map, which was a joke.  No roads have street names and the map was not proportionally correct.  Luckily, we soon realized everything eventually intersected with the main road that went up and down the island, so we didn’t worry about the map.  The hardest part was finding the place where we rented the car when we had to return it.

So, here is the beauty that is Santorini….

Could you imagine this being your backyard?

Kenny was excited to see the black sand beaches of Santorini.  They ended up being the black rock beaches of Santorini.  They were beautiful and we loved listening to the water on the rocks as the waves came in and went back out.  (We have video I just haven’t figured out how to post it yet)

This is my favorite picture of us!

And then it was time for a morning snack

Now back to the road…

If heaven exists on earth, these homeowners have found it.

In Santorini there are some really traditional structures and then there are some really cool modern buildings like above.

After returning the car we spent the afternoon exploring Fira, Santorini.

I saw this chandelier in a store and fell in love.  If I owned a home, it would have come back to America.

We enjoyed an amazing lunch.

The decor wasn’t too bad?

Beer and wine – what we do best!

A real Greek Salad – look at that hunk of feta and no lettuce – I could eat one of these every day.

Calamari

It all looks Greek to me!  How were we supposed to know if they were ripping us off?

Kenny’s find on the way out the restaurant.

More of Fira, Santorini

Jealous?

Now that you’ve said “what the….?”  I just read about a wakaresaseya in the July issue of Marie Claire, so until recently I would have said the same thing.

So what is a wakaresaseya?  Essentially a professional “breakup artist”.

A wakaresaseya is hired by wives in Japan to entrap their husbands to ensure a better divorce settlement.  Unless a woman has  proof of infidelity or some other wrongdoing they get nothing.  In comes the wakaresaseya (who makes $200,000 a year), who can make a big difference in a divorce payout.

There is a first encounter, for example, asking for directions.  And then a second “coincidental” encounter with an invitation to a bar.  And then you get the picture.  In fact the wakaresaseya takes pictures and when necessary has sex with the “mark”.

I’m sure you could get a wakaresaseya in the U.S.  In fact I’m sure that people have used some form of a wakaresaseya in the U.S.  But I feel like it would go by a different name and be a less respected profession here, so don’t quit your day job.

I love this ice cream bar from Hostess with the Mostess!  I may have to try and recreate.

My husband is helping me with some updates on my website, he’s trying to make it easier on my side of things.  So please pardon the construction as he works to switch things over.

He looks so pale!

I love this quote from La Dolce Vita .

I love personalized license plates. Some are very creative, some are sweet, some are insightful and some make you laugh. Here are three that made me smile.