Shaken to the Core!!!!

This photo is not me but this is probably what I looked like yesterday!!!  I had an experience that shook me to the core and I hope no one ever has that experience!!!!!!!! 

I'd gone to visit my youngest daughter at her workplace and then did a little shopping in the mall.  As I was driving home, all was good when I looked in my side mirror and saw a white car coming up in the left lane that seemed to be traveling pretty fast with the car half in the lane half off the lane in the median.  Well, the next thing I know (I'm talking blink of an eye) that car was beside me but not in the road...it was traveling down the median at a tremendous rate of speed.  Something told me to move as far right as I could and as I was slowing down to move over, the white car lost it and was sideways in the left lane coming towards me!!!!!!!!!!!!  So I moved over to the end of the oncoming ramp and stopped.  I looked over, the car turned back into the median and the guy in the car was just staring straight ahead, the car flying into the air and bouncing up/down and then almost flipping over (all in the grassy median).  The guy was going so fast I couldn't see the license plate!!!!!!

(just an illustration of what the car looked like)

I pounded on my car horn and then he swerved over both lanes, ran right up behind the car in front of me and slammed on breaks, then started following that car!!!!!  I continued to pound on my car horn trying to warn everyone in front of me!!!! Everyone behind me had totally stopped dead in the highway....18 wheelers, cars........all of us.  We just sat there for a good five minutes...none of us moving!! I was so shaken up I pulled off at the next exit (just a few feet ahead) and just sat there trying to get to my cellphone and calm myself down.  No way I was going back on the highway at that point.  I was so scared I couldn't move.  In all my years, I have never, ever had an experience like that!!!!!!!!

So why am I recounting this...........well I just want everyone to please be careful when driving on the highway and look in that side mirror often!!!!!!!!!!  Since I ride a motorcycle also, I have trained myself to always be looking in the side mirror and thank goodness I have, otherwise I would not have known the car was even coming!!!!  Let's just say my guardian angel was with me yesterday!

Pasta, Pasta

Have you read Strega Nona by Tommi dePaola to your child? You know how Big Anthony wants pasta that continually comes from the magic pasta pot? Well, Saturday night, Big Anthony would have been in heaven!!  Pasta of all shapes and sizes filled the table along with some yummy desserts.

I don't know if you've ever hosted a Pasta Party....if you haven't you need to because it is oh so easy to do and makes for a wonderful time with family and friends.  Anyway, Saturday was our Ladies of Harley Pasta Party so I began last week gathering items for decorations.  I used red/white checked tablecloths (Oriental Trading has a roll which made it so easy...just measure and cut); empty wine bottles with red candles, jars of various uncooked pasta, fake ivy, some chef characters I found at Big Lots and a cooking plaque for the serving table centerpiece.  Nope nothing fancy but it did make the room festive for the party.

Everyone brought their favorite pasta dish or a dessert, I made a garden salad and brought three types of bread and ....Voilà, the party was on!!!  Here are a few photos from the party.

Dinner and a Show!!!

While in Tenerife, we had a night on the town in Costa Adeje and Playa de las Americas.  First we dined right over the ocean at Las Rocas Restaurant in Costa Adeje.  The view was spectacular and the food was delicious. Our menu consisted of Tropical Salad with passion fruit vinaigrette, grilled beef tenderloin tournedos and chicken breast with asparagus and prawns, Parmentier potato and Madeira sauce topped off with Cheese souffle' with quince and vanilla Devon cream.  Our wines were Gra Feudo Chardonnay and Gran Feudo Tempranillo Crianza. There was even a mariachi band serenading us during our dinner!!

Then it was off to Playa de las Americas for a spectacular show at Pirámide de Arona!!!  Outstanding dancers performed the flamenco show Aire! The Pirámide de Arona is a spectacular building containing one of the biggest auditoriums in Europe. This magnificent theatre, which holds 1,874 people and has a 350 m2 stage, is equipped with sophisticated audiovisual media. We weren't allowed to take photos of the show but I did manage to find an online commercial showing some of the scenes. I even received my own set of castanets!!!