Food. Food and More Food - March 20. 2016

Sunday, March 20, 2016 Rise and shine at 8:00 a.m. or so. Tess and Daniel was already downstairs. Coffee brewing. Several cups of coffee down with the hazelnut cream added for a little bit extra zing. The mornung included patting of Daxter, the family dog, and just plain lounging until we were ready to hit the road for brunch. A wonderful rye bread with best tasting butter to hold us over. Wr hit the road after Alex walked through the door aroybd 11:30 a.m. On tbe road to find brunch near the water. We settled on The Deck Restaurant at Sea Club Resort. We sat at a table right across from the icean. A beautiful sight to behold. I love the ocean view. Unfortunately there was no brunch to be had. We started off with a bloidy mary and spinach artichoke dip. There was nothing specual aboyt the bloody mary in a plastic cup. The vuew was great. It was a positive. At some point a short while later, Tess found a fantastic brunch on line that was back where we started. As we were unable to cancel the rest of our order, we asked for our food in a to-go box. After paying our bill and piling into the car, we headed back towards Shooters, the next stop, around 2:00 p.m. Shooters is more of what I like in general. There was an hour wait so we proceeded for an outside bar for the wait and a beverage. A little Vitamin C goes a long way. Musician playing the steel drum. As soon as we sat in chairs on the lawn, a table opened up that we quickly moved to as quick as we could. There were so many delectable menu items including the smoked fish dip that we had for appetizer as well as the Spanish chorizo omelet wuth a side of sime incredible bacon for me and challah frwnch toast for Tess. Perfect view, perfwct company, perfect food. The waiter was very friendly and accommodating. He treated us well so we did reciprocate. If coese, we did. We appreciate the hard work of wait staff. This is a great start to another vacation day. There was something we knew but did not really care was that brunch ended aroubd 3:00 p.m. and dinner with friends was at 6:00 p.m. What did this mean? Piling into the car and heading home to lounge in the couch until it was time to go in a few hours. Dark Knight Rises on the tube and lounging whereever we could find. We were finally on our way to North Miami to visit Carlos and friends at his house. We were thankful for GPS on our next adventure. Traversing through the streets of Florida on a lovely warm evening, then driving into a gated community trying to find the correct number house on a crowded street lined with houses. The three of us were welcomed with open arms into their home with other family, friends and dogs. The house was filled with items from their travels as well as an open loving atmosphere for entertaining out in their screened living space. The menu consisted of a delicious cerviche with no fish but had a delicious palm of hearts with an Ecudorian flare of popcorn. The entire consisted of chicken pasta with alfredo and cheese topped with real parmesan. Oh my. After many conversations and stories that were either mentally translated from Spanish into English or with a Spanush accent, we had a necturine and strawberry tart with vanilla uce cream. Yes. Life should be centered on family, friends, food and fun. This day met all my criteria to learn about life in other places. After a majority of people left, we had a tour of their home that several stops back to the front door area for some jelly beans. After listening to more stories as we relaxed in their living room, we walked out their door around midnight for our 40 minute drive back home. What dud we do when we got back? Red velvet cake and/or ice cream. Satiated and tired, i walk up the stairs to the comforting feel of a mattress and pillow.