hello hello... where is your brain?

we have been here for almost three months now and so this tale i am about to tell really is shocking. EVERYONE, well almost everyone, that comes into our store has a bright yellow bag that says "Tortuga Rum Cake" being the curious human being that i am i asked jamie what is tortuga rum cake? she said casey of course it is rum cake. i said well naturally it is but is the rum bad for you or does it get cooked out? she did not know either and so we asked our trusty friend and manager Mr. David Crandell. he said that indeed the rum is poured onto the cake AFTER it is baked. making it, for all of us mormons, OFF LIMITS! dang it... ok so today my indian friend Avi Nash wanted to go to tortuga to get a patty (these luckily are not covered in rum and they are the most delicious things ever!) he asked me to join him for the friendly stroll and indeed i did. we walked into Tortuga, me being fully aware of where we were and what they sold there disregarded the HUNDREDS of rum bottles on every wall and was completely focused on the tons and tons of cakes they had laying out on the table. i have been trying really really hard to be as healthy as possible and so this delicious temptation staring me in the face...well lets just say i was wide-eyed and speechless. to make matters even better Avi says to me. try one they are free samples. OK!! FREE CAKE WHEN ALL I HAVE BEEN EATING IS EGG WHITES AND CELERY YA ILL TAKE A PIECE OF FREE CAKE! in all honesty i completely completely forgot that this was indeed "rum cake" ( the conversation i mentioned with david happened a few months ago and so it was not fresh on my mind.. nothing was fresh on my mind but the cake...) so did i try just one sample of cake? no. did i take over ten small sample pieces and a couple extra of the banana flavored one? you betcha. i go back to the store and start to tell all the girls how delicious this cake is and that it is FREE and you can take as much as you want! hooolldd upp.... "casey you ate the cake? jamie would not eat it because there is rum in it"

gulp

uh......

the wheels in my head then start to turn... it all starts making sense... click click click tortuga rum cakes= RUM cake...duh

so here i am trying to be a good example to these girls and tell them how awesome the gospel is and trying to always choose the right with them and pick my words wisely everyday and then i go get intoxicated with rum cake.... am i awesome? yes i am...

and just so you know the banana cake is the one they add the most rum too. OF COURSE!

make it stop make it end

neighbors... love them as i do...they have got to go. leave.. get out.. pack up and ship out. it is 11:02 here and Jamie and i are trying to get some sleep. "why in the world are you blogging then casey?" a question i am sure you are all asking. one word

KARAOKE!!!!

it is taking all that i have in me not to get out of bed, retainers in, vicks nostrils, face masked face (really does wonders if you sleep with it) bra-less, barefoot and not knock down the neighbors door, rip their karaoke machine out of the wall, throw it on the ground and jump on it until it is in a million tiny little musical pieces and then guiltlessly walk out of there and get seven good full hours of beauty sleep. like i said it is taking everything in me not to do that. "WELL GO CASEY!! YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT!"

i know i know you are all thinking that and would totally support my decision because it would make for a funny blog not for the sake of my sleep.. but i am not going to do this because these are indeed the neighbors that give us their internet. it is so nice of them to give us their internet but guys come on!! sweet caroline sung by neil diamond is great who doesn't love it but these vodka drinking, late night karaoking MACHINES SUCK!! aaaahhhhh or berlin's and kenny loggin's take my breath away with a philipino accent is my new lullaby. i wake up wanting to go hop in a jet, kiss tom cruise breathlessly, and ship off to battle... and trust me you dont want to wake up feeling that way. jets make you motion sick. tom cruise is old and freaky and ....

ohh wait...! song change ....we got a new song here...what is it??

haha

total eclipse of the heart... ah... my night just keeps getting better!!

i love i love

feed the fire ladies..

marrissa, payton, KC,and crashauna
julianna and jamie

last week jamie and i went to girls camp. SHHWWIING! if i had to explain it in one word i would say that word would be "blissfull" it doesn't get much better than feeling the holy spirit and livin on a beach. The cute little girlies that went to girls camp were Crashauna, Marrissa, and Payton. we went to this BEAUTIFUL beach out on east end with this mega huge PRICEY house... did we go into the house??.. course not.. but the beach was all ours. we set up some tents and did the whole first aid, fire safety diddy, had some devotionals, roasted some s'mores hiked around, and bore the testimonies. it was the perfect girls camp. Jamie and i did this little edible fire activity...ha we make a mean fire. a SAFE fire may i add. no forest/island fires here. these girls have never had an out door girls camp!! bring em to utah and stick them in a leech infested lake, tick biting bushes, cold nights, pot gut inhabited mountain and see how they do... not so good i can guarantee that. you would have thought we were pulling their leg off when we told them we SERIOUSLY were NOT showering and you had to do your junk in the sand and burry it. haha good times good times. overall the girls had AWESOME attitudes and i think there testimonies got a little brighter making this world a little better.

cheers

smokey the bears casey and jamie

IM BACK!

wasssss uppppp bloggersss!!!!???!!

i have not blogged for so long!! the reason being  is the Philippinos that live next door, who we secretly got their internet password, moved. Karma i'd say. thieves never prosper... that how that saying goes?? so if we want internet we have to sit out side in the parking lot and even then we dont always get it. BUMMER! so much has happened though so let me get ya'll up to date. we'll work backwards

Jamie and i had the perfect day today, if i had to live another day again it would be this one. We slept in until about nine. AH! felt so nice. we then read some one the twilight books. we are going to re-read them all before we read the fourth and final. i started the first one a while ago and am not almost done with the second. jamie started today and all i am going to say is i better start reading faster!!! she reads so fast and never has to sound out the words like i do.. hukd oon foniks. these books are so fun and i have NO IDEA how she is going to end them. i am so team while jamie is more team jacob...hmm.. all i know is that i have unrealistic expectationss of love because of edward cullen (yes, i did steel that saying off a facebook bumper sticker-so dont try to call me out on not being original). Moving on  after we read we went for a nice run, well i should not say nice i almost melted and got a wicked bad sunburn on my back. AND i almost got hit by a car, no joking, i  literally jumped out of the way of the fast approaching vehicle. jerks. no worries though i did give them the international sign for nearly taking my life, ill repent later promise. after that we got on our scooter and scooted over to the beach. it was so sunny and there was a nice breeze and we just toasted ourselves for a good three hours. when we were medium well done we decided we should probably jet to work for a bit. we did so and millie, at work, gave us plums, they are red and some are green they taste SO nice! (not delicious, spatular,sweet or yummy....just nice like everything else right?) so after work, which was not really work, we went out to dinner to celebrate our missionaries sixth month mark. we went to this place called "eats" we got grilled chicken and a wrap and even spoiled ourselves with an appitizer. after that we rode home wind in our hair and on our hot skin with our VERY full bellies. we decided we would burn a few cals and went on a walk only to load back up on them when we hit dairy queen. we spoiled ourselves AGAIN and didnt get just the little cones we got BLIZZARDS! well, i actually got a malt, so tasty. taste it love it crave it. while we were walking to DQ we were listening to the ipod and singing annoyingly loud. it didnt seem to annoy anyone else though, they would just laugh at us and start singing along.

while we were eating our ice cream we went and sat out on this fishing dock, it was twilight, haha sorry its on my mind i had to say it, and the water was sparkley and perfect. we sat there for a good hour listening to sappy love songs and watching the sun set. PERF! we then walked home singin again and now i am blogging and when i am done with this i am going to go take a hot shower and then read again. life does not get much better.

Thinking of that hot shower makes me not want to keep typing so maybe another day i will catch you up but for now IM OUT!! hope everyone is enjoying gettting ready to go back to schoool!!!! we'll be on the beach in the meantime:)

 SIANARA!

love the crisp, burnt, extra well done, full, sugar highed casey and jamie