12/1/13

Thanksgiving Vacation

Huck’s Birthday

My four day weekend started Wednesday at 2PM. I practically ran out of the office screaming “I’m free!!”.

Wednesday was Huck’s birthday, and I was happy to be off early to celebrate. We started the birthday celebration at TBC, of course!

Our celebration continued to downtown Abacoa for Food Trucks and drinks at Das Biergarten with some friends. We were home fairly early. 

Turkey Day

For Thanksgiving, we went to our friends Nate and Sue’s house for dinner. Nate smoked a turkey while Sue whipped up so amazing sides.

 

I brought Butter Corn Casserole, Beer Bread Rolls, and Cranberry Cheesecake. The Cranberry Cheesecake turned out really good. I followed SkinnyTaste’s recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake, but substituted strawberries for leftover cranberry sauce. 

EG and Laura’s visit- Friday and Saturday

Friday, EG and Laura drove over from Tampa to spend the night. We went to Square Grouper and Dive Bar for dinner. Saturday, we took them to Berry Fresh for breakfast and Loggerhead Marine Life Center to check out the sea turtles.

Did you know Juno Beach has one of the most active nesting beaches in the world? I didn’t either.

The turtle below was going for his weekly weigh-in.

Each turtle has a little information posted about his condition, treatment, size, and age. The turtle below was found floating on his left side, and he was very anemic and hypoglycemic. He had a large, old, scare on his back from a boat propeller. He’s doing better since he arrived at the center.

He also went to the Juno Beach Pier.

The wind and waves were crazy.

While walking on the pier, some “kids” caught a 5 foot shark.

And people wonder why I don’t go swimming in the ocean…

It made me very sad to see the way the people treated the shark. They were taking pictures holding it and flipping it off. While holding it, they keep dropping it, and the shark was trying his best to get away. I secretly wanted the shark to whip around and bite everyone of them. Nothing serious. Just an F U from the poor defenseless shark.

EG and Laura left around 2PM, and Huck and I left for his homebrew competition at Roxy’s in West Palm.

Huck entered two beers into the competition and came in 2nd and 3rd. He was beat by a Blueberry Porter. He wasn’t very happy about “being the first and second loser”. I’m super proud of him for placing, twice!

There were large TV’s setup outside Roxy’s playing the UF vs FSU. We were watching the end of the UGA vs Tech and Bama vs Auburn game at a local restaurant/bar. The place went crazy when Auburn scored at the very end of the game. It was AMAZING!!! Oh and UGA won too. It was a great day!

09/23/13

DAS Biergarten Craft Beer Bus

We’ve taken our love for craft beer to a whole new level. Sunday, we loaded a bus supplied with nothing but craft beer to watch the Falcons lose to Miami.

Party buses to football games are popular here. Maybe they’re popular everywhere. Deena and Alex asked if we were interested in going to the Miami vs. Atlanta game a few weeks ago. It was Miami’s first home game.

Last weekend while at the Food Truck Invasion in Abacoa, we noticed DAS Biergarten was sponsoring a bus trip to the game. DAS Biergarten is a craft beer bar and the flyer said the price included craft beer, bus ride, tickets, and food. All for $80 each! Where do we sign up?

Deena and Alex arrived at our house around noon, and we rode our bikes downtown.

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We were greeted with a mimosa to start the day. I’m recreating a mimosa like this for the blog soon. It was made with beer :)

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I was going to buy a Falcon shirt online but didn’t want to pay $30+. I purchased a cheap Walmart tank top {My favorite tank tops plus they’re only $4} and iron on transfer paper. For less than $6 I had a Falcons shirt!

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We boarded the motor coach at 1pm and headed to Miami. It was actually one of the bus with the company I work for. Is that considered drinking on the job?

Once on the bus, we were provided road beers.

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Huck said I looked like a bug…

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and he was right!

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The best part of the beer bus, we had a bathroom!

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Miami vs Atlanta. UGA vs UF. We’re in the wrong state! 

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He enjoyed chips and hotdog as we watched the clouds move in.

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It started sprinkling, and everyone crowded around the tents, but then it started raining hard!

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Luckily, we had the A/C bus to wait out the storm! And a tub full of craft beer.

The rain stopped just in time for us to make it inside for the beginning of the game.

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And it was the ugliest stadium EVER! Orange and Aqua everything.

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Some of us didn’t make it through the whole game…

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Felix bought us an Arepas. Good greasy stadium food.

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Of course the Falcons lose. Walking back to the bus in a Falcons shirt sucked. Everyone had something to say! “3-0” “You need a better team” “Honey, you need a real team” “Aww sucks to be you” “GO FINS!” “I’m a stupid Dolphins fan” I may have added the last one :)

We were home by 10 and in bed around 10:30.

It was a great time. Great people, good food, and great beer. If the Falcons won, it would of been a perfect day! Thanks Das Biergarten for a great event. Can’t wait until next time.

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