Limo Ride to Dinner at Mermaid's

RMargie, Marjie and Sandy
Kendal, Shawn, Joe
Shawn and Kendal
Ellen, Sandy and Margie, gasp! I'm not the only!
Braden's buddy, Braden, Shawn
Ellen, Shawn and Sandy studying the menu
Kendal and Beth
Shawn, huggers, and Joe


Limo ride to Mermaid's Cigar and Wine Bar in Rockport Texas, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. This is an interesting and creative joint. It is like a ship on the inside, tastefully decorated with mermaids. The Mermaid Rest Room has a leathery snake skin wall paper. The Humidor room is well stocked with cigars and wine. I was worried about the smoke but no smoking in the dining room during the dinner hour. They just started serving food on Friday and Saturday nights. Mostly steak. We were the only customers, 15 of us. They need more practice on cooking and serving food. They knew we were coming, they might have made the cups of butter, sour cream, green onions and bacon done up in advance. The steaks were average at best. Rolls and baked potatoes were good. Apple pie included with the meal was excellent.

Kendal slept on the way to dinner, threw up the rest of the night. After each time she said I feel great now. She is so knocked up. Told her so, she got even paler then. This is going to be fun.

This was a great night with friends, Shawn did all the work, and we had a wonderful time. We are so fortunate in our friends here in Port A.

Happy New Year 2011

I remember when I was young, I figured out how old I would be in the year 2000, yes, I did higher math back then. And sadly, saw that I would be much too old to have fun on that far away celebration. Now I can't remember the fun quotient of that New Years Eve, but I can say that I had a lot of fun on the 2011 NYE.

It's a good thing I am writing this down for posterity, as the memories are short and dim. Javiar and Susan had a house party, Beth and Dave, brother Scott and son Seth, church people, JJ and Carlie. I wish I had pics to jog my memory, forgot my camera, still tired from not sleeping well and our many long trips. I sleep great one night, badly two nights. I either need more walks on the beach or more booze. I like walks better. So annoying, anyway, great food and friends and perhaps football on the screen. We left about 9:30 and I slept great.

On New Years day I wanted to get some breakfast that someone else would cook and clean up after, and as luck would have it, the rec hall wasn't open for breakfast until 11 am. We jumped in the handy green van and headed for the Island Cafe, with great pancakes and breakfast taquitos. They were closed so we tried Frankie's and got right in. Excellent food, blueberry pancakes, really fresh and tasty scrambled eggs, and lots of friendly people. Then I thought we should stop and see what was going on at the Munoz home.

They had the black eyed peas with ham hocks going and were working on the cabbage. It is a southern tradition to have black eyed peas, corn bread and cabbage for good luck in the new year, and a Gaff tradition to have a black eyed pea cook off on New Years Day.

Smelled great. Paul and I had mimosas and tasted the beans. Yummy. Eventually we went to the IGA and bought fried chicken and beer. Watched football and got to the Gaff. Big crowd and at least 18 entries in the cook off. Susan took second place with her pot of beans, it was excellent.

We met some old friends and new friends and had fun, it was sunny and 60s, with 20 mph winds, not bad really. Went back to the house, watched football, Javiar and Carlie fried the sand bass they had caught with Scott and Seth, it was really good. And we finished off the evening with a short glass of Disaronno, and Wii bowling. Very memorable day, we left for breakfast and never went home. Oh, we did run home for the brownies after the Gaff.