June 15, 2007

• Mini-vacation

  We spent a few days visiting our families.  Since our family is growing, we've been staying at my parent's little beach house on the bayou when we visit.  It's nothing "fancy or flossy", LOL--it survived Hurricane Carla (1961).  There is one bedroom, a living area, kitchen and bath, a sunroom, and a nice deck.  The house does have a room with a half-bath on the ground level, but it's pretty much storage.

  One evening, we had a mini-carnival and ate chilidogs, corndogs, cotton candy, and we made funnel cakes:

  

  Can you see how small the stove is from the photo?  It's this cute little miniature, gas stove.  It's not old, but *vintage* LOL.  I was actually scared to death to fry anything on a gas stovetop, but my dh was there for support (okay--I made him flip the cakes!).    The next pic is part of the finished product (part, because we had already started eating it when I remembered to take a picture!).  We couldn't find a funnel, so we filled a ziploc bag with the batter, then snipped off a corner.

  

  And we made Papa (my dad) play the clothespin-in-the-jar game before he left (he's such a good sport!):

  

  You can see part of the living area in the above photo~it's got that *vintage* vibe about it, LOL.

  BTW, I totally copied "carnival night" from someone's blog, but I can't remember who to give credit...if you read this, please let me know!

  

   

   

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