Hello everyone! Welcome to my first 'Sunday Favorites' hosted by Chari at Happy To Design, I think this is a great idea, because we all have our favorite posts that we may want to share again!

This post is one that actually happened to me and to this day I still find it funny, hope you enjoy, those of you that read it before,.................... well enjoy it again! lol!!

Check out Chari's blog to read great past posts from other bloggers!

On Sunday last I was at home alone with the kids. Keith (the hubby)had gone to a football game. it had just gotten dark, and I was preparing the kid's clothing for the school the next day, when out of the corner of my eye i noticed a creature moving from the washroom into the kitchen/TV room area.

My heart sank and rose at the same time!! When i looked over i saw it was a huge frog IN MY HOUSE and believe me folks these things ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN KEITH IS NOT AT HOME!! Now my fear of frogs is immense to say the least, i will run screaming if i see them in the yard much less in the sanctuary of my home! I immediately hopped up onto the chair where i was folding clothes and started trembling, the frog at this time was hopping and stopping, hopping and stopping. And all i could think was why me lord why now??

I managed to come down from the chair grab the phone and get back on the couch, i called Kieth to see how close to home he was, he was approx 20 minutes away. 20MINUTES! did you not hear me A FROG IS IN THE HOUSE!! He then calmly instructed me to get a bucket and cover the frog with it until he comes home, that way he will know where it is and will get it out sounds reasonable right? except for the fact that to cover the frog i would have to get CLOSE to it! Not going to happen!

By this time Mr frog is in the TV room and heading for the corridor towards the bedrooms. that is when knew I had to do something!
I instructed Isaiah to keep his eye on the frog, I decided i would go out into the street and any of my neighbors I saw walking by or driving by I would ask them to come and deal with the frog for me. So i open the front door and go through my gate and stare into the street. It was completely deserted! Where were the pesky teenage boys when you need them?

MONSTER FROG

All this time i am telling Isaiah to keep his eye on the frog so that i would know where it is when Kieth or a neighbor gets here. I stand there for what seemed like an eternity, still no nieghbor, still no Keith, Idecided to head back into the porch where I can look out for a neighbor and avoid shouting to Isaiah from the street

"WHERE IS THE FROG NOW?!"

So i go close to the front door and I ask

"Isey where is the frog"

"I dont know mummy" he replies

I get dizzy.

The frog could be ANYWHERE in my house!!

I stand at the door and ponder my next move, I cant ask someone to come in and search for a frog!! I should at least know where it is! Good Grief!!

A million thoughts are racing through my mind as i stand my front door, only to catch movement in the corner of my eye again,

THE FROG!!

it calmly hopped out the front door, onto the porch and into the yard! Shaking like a leaf from fear and relief, I calmly go inside close the door and breathed for what seemed like the first time in 20 minutes of agony!!

He could have at least dressed for the occasion!!

Fertilizer Friday

It's fertilizer Friday and my friend Tootsie is our hostess! Tootsie is our resident garden guru, and she has brown thumbed folks like me hitting the commercial greenhouses buying up plants because of her passion for plants and mind boggling talent for growing them from seed, so after viewing what I am feeding on this Fertilizer Friday, hop on over to Tootsie;s blog and see what everyone else is feeding!

I love petunias, so recently I went over to the garden shop/greenhouse and purchased a few, when I got there they were watering the plants with an overhead mister and it looked so pretty I just had to take a pic

Petunias just wating to be taken home and loved

I bought about eight petunia plants and a few lantanas, I have to take the planting slowly and build my confidence being new to planting and all, I took my plants home and waited a day before transplanting I wanted them to become acclimatised to their new home.

Lantanas

While at work I had an ambitious idea, why not make two giant planters like Tootsie does with the petunias? I thought why not? I got really exited at the idea, I already had the pots and I remembered Tootsie gave step by step instructions about making her planters and as luck would have it there was some syrotex hanging around the office that day because of a new printer that was purchased, I pounced on them before the cleaners did! The syrotex is needed for stuffing the plant pots so that less pro mix is used.

All bagged and ready to go home

And now without further ado, my plantings, remember they are recent transplants and have some growing to do, since planting this pot I have added four impatiens to the pot for a fuller look.

Begonias hoping for the best here

Then, my ambition got into warp speed and I decided to plant some seeds!! They actually sprouted, and no, Tootsie I am not fertilizing them, lol!!

If these pots work out I'll probably do some in ground planting!!!

My wonderful Cruise............ to nowhere in particular

I boarded the ship on Thursday night and went straight to bed,

Friday morning at breakfast, the morning of the summit, hence the work attire, my first breakfast on board.

Friday evening we were invited to view the opening ceremony of the Summit at the ships auditorium, followed by cocktails, to I dressed in work-but kind of partyish attire, you know what I mean!

Gotta get that diva shot!!

This is the auditorium, you no longer feel as if you are on a ship here.............

Cocktail time!! Poolside, party party!!

The wait-staff, so friendly, this guy knew the drink I liked and kept it coming!!

It is 1am, cocktail party is over, but we are not ready to sleep, head off to a restaurant and have a bite, I kept it light, and then on to the ship's disco!! we partied till 4am!

Saturday morning at 10am, got up, happy to put on casual clothes and explore the ship, but first breakfast!!

This is my after breakfast dessert, we decided to put all our desserts in one plate and each take a pic pretending it was all ours, I was cracking up so much at our silliness!!

Time to explore, the pool area again, with a giant screen for viewing movies.

After relaxing by the pool a bit we decided to have some ice cream from the 24hr ice cream self service bar at the pool, then I said I will run to my room to pick up my phone, to call my kids and ease my guilty conscience for having soooo much fun without them, after getting to my room, the air conditioning was on, the bed made and I just could not resist, I went in for a short nap, and woke up 6 hours later!! I was beat!!

I caught up with my co-workers again, explained my absence, they said they all got naps too, and we went poolside to enjoy a movie.

Of course we munched on burgers and fries and pizza, served 24/7 at the poolside BTW.

Then it was back to the disco, party hearty again and off to bed at 230am.

Sunday morning after my usual hearty breakfast, we really wanted to explore, we found this! It's a lounge area in pretty much the middle of the ship, beautiful!! There is a piano playing dude, and there is pastries!

Relaxing in the lounge.............................................

This nice guy wanted to serve me some pastries. I thought, I just had some for breakfast!! resist!! resist!!

Another view of the pastries at the lounge

Me trying to convince myself I have no room in my stomach for the delicious pastries,,,,,,,,it worked!!

My cool co-workers at the lounge,

Apart from pastries, you can have pretty much a meal here!!

The fab ceiling of the lounge area

Then we went here, it's called 'The Santurary' no kids allowed here, really, there's a sign! lol!!

Isnt it dreamy!!

Check out the views,

Relaxing...................... my office bldg in the background.............

All that relaxing made us hungry..................

Lunchtime again!

Dessert, I passed on the pastries, well just one as you can see

After lunch on Sunday we visited the other ship that housed media and other co-workers of ours the 'Carnival Victory"

One word to describe this ship

UGLY!!!!

So glad I did not stay there! wooo-hooo!!

That, in a huge nutshell is my experience on board a cruise ship, did you notice by tummy got bigger as the pics progressed? Food apparently is a big deal on a cruise, and without self control, you can really go to town!

Hope y'all had fun, oh and did I mention I was supposed to be on the ship from the Monday? I knew of it but was too busy with work 13 - 18 hour days preparing for the Summit to pack, oh well, next time I'll be there from the start!!

My First Outdoor Wednesday

Susan is our gracious hostess for Outdoor Wednesday. Participants post pictures of anything that they might find outdoors. If you'd like to join in, click here for instructions.

As some of you may know, my tiny country, Trinidad was the host of the 5th Summit of the Americas, for three days all eyes were on Port of Spain as we hosted 34 Presidents/Prime Ministers or Heads of States from around the world.

All guests were welcomed and distinguished, including Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, and many others you can click here to see all the heads of state that participated.

For my outdoor Wednesday post I would like to show you some shots of the Captital of my country Port of Spain, (most of the pics are clickable)

This cruise ship, the 'Carnival Princess' was brought in to house members of the media, both local and foreign, so that they could be close to the event. But more importantly it housed some members of staff including me! it was sooo much fun, having never been on a cruise, I definitely plan to take one soon, I'll show pics of my stay on this ship on my next post.

This is a view from the Hyatt Hotel which is on the same compound as my office building.

An arial view of Port of Spain

This is a view from the ocean of the Hyatt Hotel and my office building

Downtown Port of Spain, complete with KFC

This is Fort George, it is beautiful here and the views of Port of Spain are amazing, one of the very few forts, we really havent fought many wars!

Our skyline at night

I hope you enjoyed my first Outdoor Wednesday post! be sure to visit Susan to see more posts!