“Thanksgiving” Weekend

November 24, 2008 by admin

Well, sort of. We’ve kind of developed a tradition of visiting the Florida parents the weekend before and then spending the actual holiday on vacation with the NY parents. Even though we’re not traveling this year with the NY fam, we managed to uphold the traditional trip to FL with a last minute airfare bargain.

We started with a meal at La Bamba in Tampa. This is a tiny cafeteria style place that serves Cuban food. I assume that the cafeteria servings are good but there are only two things I eat when I’m in a Cuban place: pressed sandwiches and platanos.

After that we went home, chilled out, went to the grocery store to pick up our Thanksgiving dinner fixins for the netxt day, had some Greek food (it’s a caaaake!), and made the brine for our Thanksgiving turkey.

Saturday was a bit more adventurous. My dad and I were going to participate in a sailboat race so he got up nice and early, headed down to the pier and started prepping the boat. Before meeting him at 11am I helped my mom and Jacq prep some dinner items. Anyway, the race. As my dad and I were heading through the channel, our keel got lodged in the bottom and we couldn’t get through the channel. Apparently the tide was a bit lower than needed to get us out the the bay so after trying to dislodge ourselves for 30 minutes, we just headed back to the dock. Where we sat and chatted for a while, pretending we were at sea