The Terminal

In a few hours, I will be in a new city, a bigger one, so this post will probably be my last post about the home-y down South. First up, affairs with food! Or at least, the last few days. I kind of lost some of my food files in the heat of uploading heaps of dolphin photos.

(From left to right, downwards) 1 The Loop: Bacon and artichoke pizza with 2 Gorgonzola salad and tomato bisque, 3 Molten Lava Cake on the night when my aunts ordered me a Kahlua-laced mudslide (COOL EVER), 4 Chocolate Stuff from Barbara Jean's (but I kind of think the cheap Molten Lava Cake is better), 5 Crab Cake with White Cheddar Cheese Grits and Coleslaw also from Barbara Jean's, and 6 Pad Thai 7 Chicken Tikka and 8 Tom Yum Soup from Salu Thai. All excellent! :)

Yesterday, we had dinner at Barbara Jean's at Ponte Vedra after a quick trip to Fernandina. It was a nice place and I really enjoyed myself because the crowd was a nice mix of classy and friendly (And by classy, I mean they weren't the maingay Southern types who drown out every other voice in the restaurant. Very prevalent in this part of the country). We met a 17 month old butchukoy named Jonathan. He is the cutest, with legs like longganisa and a face as round as buchi. Cute!!! Sana hindi ko siya na-usog. Sobrang cute niya gusto ko siyang itapon sa river. Hahahaha.

Some pictures over dinner. What I love about this place is that the days are definitely longer, meaning more time to spare with friends or family. Like this kind of light is already 07:30pm. The nerd in me is amazed! Hahaha. So much time to be productive! In the outside dining area, boats come speeding by the river and then the diners would wave. Cute.

And then, I also had the time to bike around Hampton Glen and by the beach while I was here (as penance, siguro, for all the fun I've been having and the food that I am eating).

It's hurricane season so the lenses were foggy at first but I manged to capture the sun before it went full blast on the heat. Would you believe that we were biking at 92°F? At 06:00am! Hahaha. Crazy! They also have this thing my Aunt calls "UFO rain" where the rain-sunshine-rain interval is within a mile each, so there would be parts of the highway with pouring rain and then dry parts and then pouring rain again. I would totally laugh about it except I am totally terrified by global warming so I wouldn't. :-O Afraid!

So there, that's about it for my Florida adventures. My aunts just left to board their 06:00AM flight to Pennsylvania. I'm currently waiting for my 07:37AM flight to Chicago. I hope I have as much fun in Chicago as I did in Florida. Tita Girlie and Tita Mousie are a hoot to be with and they give very good advice which I will find useful once vacation is over (Tita Girlie also has these wisdom and life coach quotes she dispenses at her own will so OHEMGEE, may kapantay na si Tita E!!! Hahaha!). They believe in me so much, I can only hope I make it. :)

Till my next update! Tata for now! :)