Red Velvet Cake Batter Ice Cream

One of my sisters came to Alabama for a visit.  She and I are very close, but very different people.  One of the funniest differences is our treatment of hair ties.  You see, I can have two hair ties last me 1-2 years.  It takes being overstretched and broken several times for me to finally toss them and venture to the store to buy some more.  My sister, on the other hand, must buy them in bulk every few months.  Mauve elastic hair ties are scattered around my house.  

Now it could be the fact that I rarely wear my hair up, or it could be the fact that my sister is the mother of two rambunctious girls that causes this difference.  All I know is that I'm set for several years in the hair tie department now.

S'more Ice Cream, Two Ways

Moving to the South from Utah was an interesting experience.  Aside from the obvious cultural differences, the environmental differences sometimes baffle me.  I remember being pleasantly pleased getting out of the pool the first time I went swimming and not being shocked by the cold.  The dry air in Utah means that the moisture on your skin evaporates quickly causing your body to loose heat no matter how hot a day it is.  In the humid South you don't experience this unpleasant sensation.  

Then there are the bad things.  Such as...for example...tornados.  

One thing that surprised me, without being all that surprising, was how hot the nights are out here.  Again, due to the humidity the nights out here stay warmer than I experienced during summers growing up.  I became acutely aware of this recently when the husband and I took the kid on his first camping trip.