Tomorrow morning we will be awarded certificates and will listen to testimonies then will head to the airport. Our flight leaves Jacksonville at 3:30 EST, we change planes in Atlanta and then will return to Texas by 8:30ish. We'll stay overnight in Arlington with B and N and head home Valentine's Day after a modicum of shopping.
I'm beginning to be addicted to Panera for breakfast. Just walking in, the smell of bread is entrancing. We decided not to repeat any other eatery tho' and today was no different. Lunch was good, but a bit unusual. We went to Paul's Family Cooking. Our first clue should have been that even tho' it was 12 o'clock, there was no one in the parking lot. Don't get me wrong, the food was okay. We had BLT's and they were good. The fries that came w/ mine were very good and V ordered and received collard greens in place of the fries. She took one bite and declared them way, way too salty. Then she tasted her tea and declared it to be tea syrup. But the food was the ordinary element of the place. We were greeted on entering, by an "older" black gentleman who looked startled that we were there to eat. He was constantly on the phone telling folks to "come in the back door". Not sure what his "enterprise" was but waiting tables was a "sideline". He came back more than once to ask if he had gotten our drinks and they were sitting right there. When we first sat down we noticed the syrup pitcher in the middle of the table and thought that this is a neighborhood breakfast place. When our food came, I reached over to move the pitcher and IT WAS STUCK TO THE TABLE. Wonder when the tables were last wiped clean? A lady who came in after we did, on sitting down, said in a loud voice--"Oh, I'm sticking to the seat". We heard her, but he didn't. He even seemed a little relieved when we left.
We drove a bit after lunch and drove by a Budweiser plant, a Bacardi plant, and a place called Gander Mountain, which seems to be a Southern sort of Bass Pro Shop. No, we didn't go in.
Before leaving for supper, we went up to the top floor of the Holiday Inn and tried to get the "lay of the land". Don't seem to be many hills or mountains here for prospective. Anyway, the sun was just going down and I got a nice picture of Jacksonville at sunset. This vindicates my earlier tries to take a picture of the full moon, which just didn't work.
Supper was more ordinary than lunch, but interesting, nonetheless. Have you been to STICKY FINGERS? (Not sticky syrup pitchers, or sticky seats, but sticky fingers) It is a Memphis style barbecue place. We decided on pulled pork and waited just a little while to receive our plates. We told the waitress who brought the meals that we needed utensils. She said she'd bring them right away. And we waited, and we waited, and then we waited some more. Then our waiter came by and we asked for utensils and we waited, and we waited and we watied some more. Yes, we finally got to eat and it was delicious. We had a choice of about 5 or 6 different sauces on the table. Some sweet, some hot and one with copious amounts of whiskey and one w/ mayo in it.
We're back in the room, with V snuggled up to a sock filled w/ hot rice that we nuked at a shop in the lobby. She has back/leg pain and hopefully, that will help her sleep better.
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