coney island.

we went down to coney island for the mermaid parade.  when we got down there, i don't know who was misinformed but i was watching a nudist/belly dancing/hippy parade, definitely NOT a mermaid parade.  needless to say, that was a total bust.  we walked down to the beach and just chillaxed there for a while.  it was so nice to put my toes in the sand and think about nothing.  on our way home we got hungry, of course... hets was craving mexican food so she looked up some places.  we decided to go to one on the east side called cascabel taqueria, it's a place that has fresh mexican food inspired by the markets of mexico.  when we got to the place where we thought we were going, we sat down and started looking at the menu.  it was definitely not what we looked at online and they also told us that they had just opened the day before.  we were so confused!  well apparently this is a new addition to cascabel but this place was more or less a bar that happened to serve food so we left and went to the REAL cascabel.  it was AMAZING!  i know that i say that everything is amazing (because it is) but this place definitely tops my list.  we ordered guacamole.. best ever, for dinner i had carne asada tacos and elote asado which is grilled corn on the cob with mexican aioli/lime/cascabel chili/queso cotija.  it was SO GOOD! i want to go back right now just thinking about it...  one funny thing, the place had pictures everywhere of the wrestler, nacho libre but i couldn't think of his name so i asked the girls.  christi said "isn't it nacho grande?" haha! somebody loves taco bell a little much! :)  i'd say it was a pretty darn good day.  beach and mexican food... it's hard to top that!

mermaid ave! how cool is that!?

mah deener :) YUM