Friday afternoon I left Waycross and headed south to visit Melissa and Alex, who live in Orlando. It was an excellent trip - especially since I hadn't seen Melissa and Alex since July 2006. While there, we went out for really delicious food: Indian, Mexican and Korean - heavenly! In addition to ethnic culinary pleasures, Alex has recently decided to take up baking, and his creations are fabulously scrumptious. We didn't merely eat our way through the weekend: we also went to Wekiwa Springs (which we were unable to get into back in July 06) and we saw King of California at the Enzian (we'd actually tried to go to the Enzian back in July 06 only to find the show sold out...) Wekiwa (also sometimes spelled Wekiva) was pretty, although I have to admit that I prefer Ichetucknee. At least at Ichetucknee you can hike along the river if you don't want to swim in the springs or canoe/tube the river. At Wekiwa, it seems that your options are limited to swimming in the springs, or hiking through pine forest nowhere near the river. And really, if you've seen one Floridian pine forest, you've seen them all. Unless said forest goes along something scenic, like a river. Meanwhile, I have nothing but positive things to say about King of California - it was hilarious and well crafted, and I highly recommend it.
Friday was Melissa's birthday. Alex baked her a cake.
Melissa and Alex are having a baby girl!!! :-)
Alex bakes cheddar pennies.
This cranberry-apple pie, made by Alex, was possibly the best pie I've ever eaten. He also made fresh homemade whipped cream to top it off.
Yum, yum, yum.
Likewise, his bread was was simply delicious as well.
Melissa and Alex's cat, Henry
And their cat Henrietta
Wekiwa Springs
I left Orlando early Monday morning and drove to Tampa, where I spent some time with my dad, and got to see his new Harley:
I was feeling pretty sleepy by the time I left Tampa to begin the five hour drive back up to Waycross. I made it to just south of Gainesville, FL and then decided to stop at a rest area for some rest. And slept for a little over an hour :-)
4 comments:
I just finished a slice of pie! Glad that you could come and visit. It was good to see you. Also, I stole a picture from you for my MySpace account.
Melissa
Melissa looks beautiful! Hopefully the morning sickness ickiness is finished.
The cat named Henry looks a lot like a cat I used to have named Henry. In other animal news, Songi has to have a tooth pulled next week. Poor thing!
glad you made it back ok, looks like a great trip
I don't know if you will see this in time, but the History Channel is airing "Lost Worlds--Stalin's Supercity" a couple of times tonight. It explains a lot about the design of Moscow and its more famous landmarks.
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