Had a LOVELY meet-up with Lana's family, Angie & Bill for espetada.

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I haven't giggled that much in years. Or stuffed my face with so much soft homemade buttered bread and huge chunks of bayleaf-scented, salty steak grilled by Charcoal Maestro Ismael. Washed down with Portuguese wine after nibbling on grilled (insert a long, can't pronounce or spell South African/Portuguese name) sausages and jerky.

Lana injected Healthy by adding a crispy salad and fresh pineapple.

But then she served us dessert. Passion fruit mousse and fresh fruit.

Thank you again, Lana for sharing your home and traditions with us!

 
That sounds so good, as I sit here eating my pomegranate arils and Fage with Key lime

for breakfast!

 
It was so much fun to meet Marilyn and Angie and their husbands!

One of my classes had asked me what Thanksgiving plans we had made, so I told them how excited I was at the prospect of meeting two friends whom I'd known for so long but never met. On Monday, one of the boys asked how it had gone, and in spite of my enthusiastic response, he shook his head and muttered that he felt it would have been very awkward.

We just never stopped talking. And Marilyn made the most incredibly beautiful tin-foil hats (which means our meal must have been slimming as we ate everything in spite of the hats). Bill took a photo, so perhaps we will see that some time. It was a wonderful day! Angie convinced me that I should take a trip to Sarasota to that German store. She kept telling me about all the chocolate. Perhaps I should take my tin-foil hat with me (it's in storage on the top of the closet).

I keep reading how on-line friends aren't really friends at all, but everyone here disproves that every day.

 
I get frozen passion fruit pulp from the supermarket and/or Hispanic stores.

But we also have a vine in the front yard that produced beautifully this summer for the first time.

 
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