Happy Anniversary Baby…


Today is our 34th wedding anniversary and it falls on a Saturday. We abandoned Tim and Karen this morning and went out for a bacon, eggs, grits, toast and coffee breakfast at a place called Tadd’s. It’s been here for 40 years and is going strong.

We were enjoying our breakfast at the same time (7:30 ish AM) that we got married here in Jacksonville on that Saturday in 1973.


We hung around with Karen all day – helping a little, but mainly just being available. Tim had a meeting to go to in the afternoon.


This evening we again abandoned the new parents to go to a Cuban restaurant, Havana-Jax, and have an anniversary dinner courtesy of the Feagins.

http://www.havanajax.com/

The food was fabulous. I had a churrasco steak and Penny had marinated roast pork. Well, actually we each had half of each dinner. The main dish came with the usual sides of yellow rice, black beans and fried plantains. There was plenty of food and even the rice and beans were great so decisions had to be made about what not to eat so there might be room for the dessert. The rice and beans lost, although I still found myself scooping up some to eat after I made that decision. It was jus good.

Penny got her “full hiccoughs” before she finished but she still forged ahead and ordered dessert. Since she has very particular taste concerning key lime pie. She didn’t order that because she is always disappointed. I ordered cheese cake but they didn’t have any so I went to the key lime pie instead.


Of course we shared and when Penny tasted the key lime pie her face lit up. She savored the mouthful a while and said “That’s perfect!”. It’s the 1st time in over 20 years that I’ve seen her like someone’s key lime pie. It topped off the evening nicely.


We rolled ourselves out of the restaurant and returned to K&T’s. We got a couple of lotto tickets on the way back – have to try at that $20 million. Back at the house we had a cup of coffee and sat around digesting.


K&T went out with Sophie this evening to a dinner with friends at a local Italian restaurant. They’ve been gone about 2 ½ hours so far so little miss Sophie must be acting all right.

So as Penny and I venture into our 35th year of marriage we know that day number 1 was a very good day.