A few months ago, my younger sister finally received the date that she’d be graduating from the University of Miami’s Medical program so Kim, Neil, Mei and Collin booked our tickets and impatiently waited for the trip to come up. Fast forward to this past week and we took the red-eye from Long Beach, CA to Ft. Lauderdale, FL for five days of family and friends and food!
We arrived at 5:40am on Wednesday and headed straight to Waffle House, a place that serves up deliciously delicious waffles served by not so deliciously delicious servers. After that lovely ordeal, we headed down to Miami and got in a quick power nap before Kim, Rachel, Megan and myself headed down to the beach (or South Beach as everyone who’s not from Miami calls it.) After a few hours there, we headed home and showered so we could meet up with the rest of the gang at Flanigan’s for dinner. Somehow I managed to forget my camera but whatever. Dad and mom made it since they arrived a couple days earlier from Suriname, JoAnn and Nick made the short drive along with Emilio, Elaine and the two kids, Erik and Monica, Raul, Rochelle and Alyssa and then Kim, Rachel, Mom Dukes, Warren and myself showed. Dinner and drinks were consumed, people were made fun of (mostly Raul, and fun was had.
The following day we woke up nice and I decided my nearly three months of not shaving was long enough. The beard was gone and to please Kim, a moustache was left in its place (for a few hours since I looked incredibly creepy.) After the hair removal, we kept on moving down the list of places we needed to eat. Next up, Hungry Bear Subs. Kim, Neil, Collin, Rachel and I drive down there and ordered up some Philly Cheesesteaks, minus the cheese for Neil since he hates everything normal people eat. Once that was said and done, we took a drive down to Cutler Ridge for and picked ourselves up some Jamaican beef patties from Marie’s. Mmmm, so wonderfully good.
By the way, I decided my pictures were too small before so now you can click all of the image to get view them larger. You’re welcome.
Later on, we headed back to Casa de Shim-Quee and checked out the world famous “Samurai Gold” EK (which is no longer “Samurai Gold”) as it sits under twenty six layers of dust and other belongings, and then layed out by the pool with the kids. Fun was had, tans were acquired and young children were piled in an innertube. Joy!
Dinner plans were made with the gang at Bangkok City for later in the evening so Neil and I took off to meet up with my dad beforehand. Since my dad decided to show up forty five minutes late, we decided to go drive around to our old house to kill some time. After that we took off to the restaurant and met up with everyone to grub on some of the best Thai food I’ve been able to find either here in California, there in Miami or anywhere else for that matter.
Happy Birthday, Raul!
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