I am a little sad that our fig season is over. We are really lucky that the critters have not found our tree (hopefully they never will!) and we have been enjoying lots of figs from our tree for the past few years.

I was taking photos of makeup I had for the blog and I decided to take a photo of some of our figs, too!

I saw these fun colorful straws featured in the May 2010 issue of Brides and I loved them! I love using straws - and good ones are hard to find. I did find some big fat ones that are great for boba tea at the Oriental Supermarket here in Orlando. But these are great, too.



The straws are by Zak designs and you can find them at LaPrimaShops.com.

I should probably explain how I came across a video talking about absinthe. We are planning a trip to Las Vegas and I wanted to make reservations for restaurants that we haven't tried yet. Chris and I LOVE food and we love the great food that Las Vegas has to offer. With Aria, Cosmopolitan and that whole area near Mandarin Oriental now open I wanted to see what they had there.

Last year I tried a few and this year I found Sage at Aria and I started to look at their menu. One menu is the "dessert and absinthe" menu. That caught my attention - it is not something I had ever seen before. I know absolutely nothing about absinthe except what is apparently not even a correct thing - that it is green. On the menu the only US glass of absinthe available was the St. George Verte, a distiller just outside of San Francisco. Their website had this awesome video:



As one of the comments said, I agree that I could listen to Lance speak about anything! He is very well spoken and funny!