Independence Day weekend at Camp Awesome was four days of patriotic conjecture. First of all Thursday is your new Friday and Monday is a creepy bonus day that you really don't expect. After work on Thursday I came home and we went to dinner at Joey's II. It is just like Joey's I (actually it is just "Joey's", they didn't have the foresight to expect their oyster bar would ever mutate into such a corperate monster) . Like I was writing, it is just like the first Joey's except with more than 6 stools at the bar. They now have a dining room with tables and a waitress and everything. The oysters are just as good and they are just perfecting their frying techniques so they now serve fried shrimp, oysters and mullet. The mullet was pretty good, it tastes like catfish. Mullet by the way is a fish from the ocean, not just that lovable hairstyle all you big city folks just wish you had the ca hones to shape your doo into. However, Joey's is down home enough that a mullet, fish
or kick-butt hair, can be enjoyed by all (men, women and most definitely children alike). McKay and I watched "So you think you can dance", one of those contest shows on Fox. I watch it because it helps me understand her better. The dancers are really good but I am glad I don't dance for a living, talk about lame. Friday and Sunday we went to Destin to go shopping because nothing says freedom like buying stuff during an economic crisis. Obviously we are in a parallel universe of the United States, living in a "vacation area", but it is really hard to tell that there is a "Great Depression II" on when so many people are buying stuff. (Nobody called it "Great Depression I" because nobody ever thought that we would be so stupid to do it again; on that note, expect: Watergate II, Vietnam II, Bay of Pigs II, Crystal Pepsi Throwback, Jar Jar Binks on Ice, and Cold War II: This Time Those Ruskies are Going Down.) Friday we eat dinner at Cantina Laredo, as seen in Texas, and it was awesome. It is fine Mexican cuisine and being a franchise from Texas, they really did good. This restaurante is only recommended to those who can't get good Mexican food where you live. I miss Mexican food. We enjoyed all the basics: chips, salsa, guacamole made table side, enchiladas and a steak stuffed with a pepper stuffed with shrimp and tomatoes. The skirt steak was a little over cooked but it was still good. We passed up dessert which was: Mexican brownie, Mexican apple pie, Mexican key lime pie, and Mexican cheese cake. I am pretty sure they just put a little pomegranate sauce with chili powder in it on anything and call it Mexican. On Sunday we actually went to Destin because none of the things we saw in the stores on Friday were on the internet to buy at a cheaper price. I got some pants, McKay found shoes and a dress and we got her a hiking backpack for our trip to Europe in August. Sunday night we ate at Pier Park's Italian food place, Guigiamo's or something. If restaurants have a star scale this would be Olive Garden - 0.3 stars. The decore looked nicer and the food was okay. The outdoor dinning area would have been a very nice p
lace to sit but a live band had placed their speakers, no kidding, 10 feet from the outdoor dinning area. Not only that but the band was a classic rock cover band with a girl singer, leaving only junk like Fleetwood Mac and Heart (uhg) in their bag of tricks and you can only take the sound of a dying cat for so long. We ate inside. Pier Park finally finished their pier, it is a beautiful concrete monster sticking 200 yards out into the water, similar to the ones in California. They do charge money to go on to the pier, WHAT? Yes, that's right $2 to just go out onto the pier and $6 if you are going to fish. The tourist trap never quits. But there were a lot of people out there, recession? Monday it rained all day. We sat inside and planned out our trip to Europe. 2 days in Germany, 3 in Prague, 2 in Vienna, and 6 days hopping Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. Nice, not Nice, France... just nice. (Who wants to go to France any way, lame.) The highlight of the weekend was the 4th of July. We had another couple over to the house and spent the afternoon snacking and drinking by the pool. That evening we loaded up the car and went to the bay where we could see every fireworks show for 69 miles. Fireworks have become smarter, making shapes and stuff they used to only do on TV. Nothing says freedom like 8 cities blow 1/4 of their annual budget on explosives. God bless America. P.S. that wasn't sarcastic.
or kick-butt hair, can be enjoyed by all (men, women and most definitely children alike). McKay and I watched "So you think you can dance", one of those contest shows on Fox. I watch it because it helps me understand her better. The dancers are really good but I am glad I don't dance for a living, talk about lame. Friday and Sunday we went to Destin to go shopping because nothing says freedom like buying stuff during an economic crisis. Obviously we are in a parallel universe of the United States, living in a "vacation area", but it is really hard to tell that there is a "Great Depression II" on when so many people are buying stuff. (Nobody called it "Great Depression I" because nobody ever thought that we would be so stupid to do it again; on that note, expect: Watergate II, Vietnam II, Bay of Pigs II, Crystal Pepsi Throwback, Jar Jar Binks on Ice, and Cold War II: This Time Those Ruskies are Going Down.) Friday we eat dinner at Cantina Laredo, as seen in Texas, and it was awesome. It is fine Mexican cuisine and being a franchise from Texas, they really did good. This restaurante is only recommended to those who can't get good Mexican food where you live. I miss Mexican food. We enjoyed all the basics: chips, salsa, guacamole made table side, enchiladas and a steak stuffed with a pepper stuffed with shrimp and tomatoes. The skirt steak was a little over cooked but it was still good. We passed up dessert which was: Mexican brownie, Mexican apple pie, Mexican key lime pie, and Mexican cheese cake. I am pretty sure they just put a little pomegranate sauce with chili powder in it on anything and call it Mexican. On Sunday we actually went to Destin because none of the things we saw in the stores on Friday were on the internet to buy at a cheaper price. I got some pants, McKay found shoes and a dress and we got her a hiking backpack for our trip to Europe in August. Sunday night we ate at Pier Park's Italian food place, Guigiamo's or something. If restaurants have a star scale this would be Olive Garden - 0.3 stars. The decore looked nicer and the food was okay. The outdoor dinning area would have been a very nice p
lace to sit but a live band had placed their speakers, no kidding, 10 feet from the outdoor dinning area. Not only that but the band was a classic rock cover band with a girl singer, leaving only junk like Fleetwood Mac and Heart (uhg) in their bag of tricks and you can only take the sound of a dying cat for so long. We ate inside. Pier Park finally finished their pier, it is a beautiful concrete monster sticking 200 yards out into the water, similar to the ones in California. They do charge money to go on to the pier, WHAT? Yes, that's right $2 to just go out onto the pier and $6 if you are going to fish. The tourist trap never quits. But there were a lot of people out there, recession? Monday it rained all day. We sat inside and planned out our trip to Europe. 2 days in Germany, 3 in Prague, 2 in Vienna, and 6 days hopping Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. Nice, not Nice, France... just nice. (Who wants to go to France any way, lame.) The highlight of the weekend was the 4th of July. We had another couple over to the house and spent the afternoon snacking and drinking by the pool. That evening we loaded up the car and went to the bay where we could see every fireworks show for 69 miles. Fireworks have become smarter, making shapes and stuff they used to only do on TV. Nothing says freedom like 8 cities blow 1/4 of their annual budget on explosives. God bless America. P.S. that wasn't sarcastic.
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Longest. Paragraph. Ever;)
Also, I'll have what McKay's having!
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