Brownsville 2008

Barry and I, along with our friends Rossana, Geoff, their children, Daniella and Josef, had a sushi feast at Uchi Monday night. We closed the resturant down and then Barry and I headed out to a Dance club. They were playing house music for the most part but no one was dancing so we sat tight. The tables were all reserved so we found a wee spot for ourselves at the end of a banquet. Nursing our gin and tonics, listening to the DJ speaking in Spanish we were unsure what to do. A gentleman introduced himself as the owner and the group next to us as his family and welcomed us. At midnight he gave us champagne, and we all hugged and greated one another. His mother took my phone number and she called me this morning! I still don't know her name though, as the music was too loud for the introductions. We will meet for coffee tomorrow. They played Latin and Tejano music after midnight and we danced some and had fun. The women for the most part were dressed for Florida standards, conservatively. I did notice of the gals who dressed up, not in blue jeans, the posterior seems to be the feature that is accessorized. The dresses were tight at the bottom with many having tight ribbons or hems taught under the "cheeks" very few showed cleavage. The anti-Florida look. A few wore very mini skirts or hot pants. Barry was happy.

Yesterday we went to the Bogorads for a Fajita dinner and I brought a home made lemon cake. So all in all we had a great start to the New Year. Barry goes back to work on Thursday, picking up a few shifts for some forecasters still out on leave.

The Library was interesting,the shelves very sparce, the DVD section very large. For the most part it was a homage' to the popular writers of the 70's and early eighties. I think Sidney Sheldon had the most books, with Jacqueline Susanne a close runner up. I was able to find a Mary Renault , Anne Ripley, and Julie Smith round out the trio. Although these books are a few years old I had not read them so over Christmas while Barry worked I was able to hole up and read. Speaking of books, Kvel time, I hope you all picked up" In the Sandbox", by Gary Trudeau, it is a chronicle of blogs written by Soldiers from the war zones. Adams' blog is heavily featured and his picture graces this wonderful book. Many of Adams' blog entries were visualized in the cartoon Doonsbury.

On Saturday, we headed up to San Antonio for the Penn State, Texas A&M game. It was at the Dome. Before game time we explored the River Walk. It was crazy full of fans and holiday vacationers not a spare square of space. I would love to go back and really do the River Walk, this time actually seeing IT, not hundreds of very libated patrons. So when you all come down it's on our list of must explore! The game was fun and the story that ensued is not for printed consumption, but a guy named CHUNK features very heavily. OH, and Penn state won.

We gorge - shopped at The Central Market Sunday and helped the General Market index single handedly. Foam coolers are a beautiful thing.

I hope I have great news by the end of this week about our home in FL. The gov't wheels do indeed spin slowly. We cooled down spectacularly it was 81 the other day we are in the 50's today. It has been very dry, the land is very brown and the grass almost brittle. On the way home Sunday night we saw a brush fire just yards from the road and surrounding the railroad tracks. It is fire season here and the threat is very real. Although there aren't a lot of true deciduous trees, most trees have lost their leaves and everything is brown and fairly barren. We passed many Ranches along our route to San Antonio, the flat land and wide open sky spaces are amazing after living in the crowded Tampa Bay area. Coming home with no lights around, the night sky was lit up with stars. I hadn't seen a night sky like that since the days we went camping, up state NY.



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