I just want to point out to everyone that I am currently in Waco, on my friend’s computer. The customs-security-person searched me really thoroughly. She was suspicious of my watch. They didn’t bother Mr. Lissar at all!
So far we’ve seen the bridge (which is supposed to be impressive somehow) and Baylor campus, which is quite pretty. It’s really warm here, but everyone’s in coats except for our friends, and us.
So I’m in the South. And I haven’t been mugged yet. And the customs guy at the Toronto airport asked if our friends were Davidians.
So yeah, that’s been our time so far.
swampbear, couldn’t you steal us all some chocolate?
I’m wondering if Lissla Lissar’s watch is the missing WMD? Maybe it’s Canada that shoulda been invaded. :eek: Is Lissla Lissar the evil dictator we shoulda been after?
Last night I got to watch 350 chocolate fanatics wolf down chocolate desserts from eight local restaurants. I barely got any chocolate at all! And only one glass of champagne. They were pigs I tell ya! Pigs! Of course they also all paid twenty bucks to do this and they bid on all the silent and regular auction stuff. Preliminary estimate is that we will clear something around 15k, so that ain’t too shabby.
I did, however get to eat some of my most favorite chocolate dessert from an area restaurant. See, the owners are friends and my wunnerful friend Mary saved me some. Ain’t she sweet! They brought 500 samples and they were all gone. It was a chocolate feeding, champagne swilling frenzy last night! Like chocolate sharks.
-swampbear (I’m going to eat at my friends restaurant tonight. Yum!)
I went to a charity function (sponsored by Appleton Rum) for my dad’s Krewe while I was in Florida. Got to drink lots of mojitos, but no chocolate and no champagne. And it cost $25/person. We did have lots of Caribbean food, since it was a rum/carribbean theme. But those pigs in the line in front of me ate most of the roast pig, so I had to stuff myself on salad and jerk wings and fish. Pity poor me.
Aside to Rue: I brought you some special presents from my trip. If the weather’s not too bad on the weekend I might stop up and lob them at you.
Chocolate sharks, eh? Were they milk chocolate of dark chocolate? If a milk chocolate shark goes into a feeding frenzy in milk, would you end up with chocolate milk?
I myself am very fond of chocolate dipped strawberries and champagne. And here’s a tip for those of you on a tight budget–sunflower seeds goes nicely with a cheap champagne. Trailer trash mets high culture, as it were.
One of the restaurants last night had “Chocolate Tuxedos.” That’s strawberries dipped in dark and white chocolate and the white chocolate part has little dark chocolate “buttons” and a little dark chocolate bowtie on it. Real class. Know what would be even better that sunflower seeds with cheap champagne (it comes in a two litre bottle with a screw cap. Hah!)? Peanuts. Then you could put peanuts in the champagne. Now that’s real trailer trash celebratin’ right there!
Shibb jerk wings. mmmmmmmmmmmm… I loves me some Caribbean jerk chicken!
That reminds me… I once mentioned eating chocolates with champagne to a French colleague whose brother works for an old champagne house in Rheims. She was aghast. “No, no, you do not eat ze chocolates with Champagne. Eet iz not just done!” So chocolate should apparently be eaten with a nice port, if you must have alcohol and chocolate together.
Come visit us when we relocate to the Tampa Bay Area and I’ll treat you to Frenchy’s Jerk Grouper Sandwich. Nicely finished with a slice of provolone and some beer. It doesn’t get much better than that.
More likely they would make some banners, block some roads with tractors, and then a general strike would be called so that some students could get out of their exams.
I think that champagne and sausages would be okay as long as they were just savory and not spicy. Bratwurst would probably work best.
You got that right! Which Frenchy’s do you like to go to, Shibb? We usually hit Rockaway for stone crab in season, but prefer the one on Poinsettia for hanging out eating and drinking with friends. Is the original location (the tiny one) still open?
We own a house in Palm Harbor, and will most likely move back there as soon as we can’t stand the rat race here any longer!
We ate there last week. First we went to Rockaway but there was a pretty long wait, so then we went to the new one on the south part of Clearwater beach to have some she-crab soup and shrimps. We had stopped by the original on the way by, but it was also packed and serves gumbo instead of she-crab (it was cold out and a nice creamy bowl of crab soup just seemed right). The original was having a special on their sirloiner, $2.50 instead of $6, and my dad wanted a hamburger, so we went back to the original for the last part of the meal. Oh, we started with drinks at the Palm Pavillion which is my parent’s regular hangout for cocktails and sunsets.
We we’re going to get a place in Palm Harbor but my concern about Pinellas School “Choice” is steering us more towards Hillsborough and the West Chase area. Still haven’t decided though.
We haven’t got kids, so that wasn’t a concern for us.
Our subdivision is on Lake Tarpon. I sure do miss hopping in the boat and cruising over to the Tarpon Turtle for drinks, and slowly making it back home as dusk settles…
They were pigs I tell ya! Pigs! Of course they also all paid twenty bucks to do this and they bid on all the silent and regular auction stuff. Preliminary estimate is that we will clear something around 15k, so that ain’t too shabby.