Pancake Day

Pancake Day really exists. It's not National Pancake Day. It's Pancake Day.

Mardi Gras are a major holiday around here. So much so, public schools now let students off the entire week. Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, is known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or as TC and I prefer, Pancake Day. TC and I were grateful for the day off, even mid-week. By the way, we had the day off because it was University President's Day, not because it was Pancake Day - our entire campus shut down, thus giving us a mid-week vacation; we kindly obliged. To jump start the day we naturally celebrated Pancake Day with a stack of pancakes. We then jumped in the car and headed to the beach. I've been wanting this getaway for awhile now. It was so peaceful; just the escape we were looking for to enjoy the time off. We enjoyed walking around, listening to the waves, playing cards and watching the sunset. Only one epic fail. I brought my camera with my new portait lens TC got me for Christmas. I was super-excited because up to this point, I've not had any time to try it out (as you can tell, with the lack of posts, time has not been my friend lately). I started shooting away and realized there was no memory card and my camera has no internal memory. A pouted for a bit, but then settled for the iPhone and instagram app.

I am thankful for the time off we are given. Mental breaks and lazy days are important for recharging even if they do make a Wednesday feel like a Monday.