I lied, I had to write one more thing. During our stay in New Orleans, we passed the ubiqitious Mango Mango Daiquiri shops (and others of their ilk) many, many times. I’m afraid a morbid curiosity got the better of some of us and foots were set inside.

I documented it for posterity (and to embarrass them). Click on Craig’s pic to get to the whole set. Enjoy!

In the spirit of “you’ll be a long time dead” in general things stay pretty busy over here at Mathom House. The past two weeks (possibly my first two week long vacation ever) went like this:

• Camping at Deschutes River over the weekend
• Came home, packed, left on Tuesday for Tales of the Cocktail.
• Spent 8 days attending seminars, hanging in bars with cocktail bloggers and eating myself silly. New Orleans was amazing and wonderful, and thanks to the ER docs at Tulane University Hospital for diagnosing Craig with gout. That rich food is no joke.
• Got home on Weds, crashed.
• Got up on Thurs cleaned the whole house in anticipation of arriving houseguests Humu and Rich. We had a ball trolling around, drinking at the Galley, then saw them off to the Coast.
• Saturday was spent staring off into space.
• Sunday was Teardrop’s 1st Anniversary party, which was lovely.



• Monday was back to work and lots of emails to answer.

Whew.

I met some lovely wonderful people at Tales, who I swear I will thank and link later but right now I am Zzzzzz.

Random update: I’m in New Orleans, attending Tales of the Cocktail and hanging with all the cocktail bloggers. Everyone is ridiculously nice, New Orleans is amazing and I’m having a ball.

I would promise pics, but you know how I am. Have a nice July!

Edited to add: I meant to publish this while I was in Nola, but somehow it got saved as a draft. Mysterious.