Beach Videos:
Coral Gables/Coconut Grove:
Little Havana:
Family gatherings for New Year’s, etc.:
Miami Holocaust Memorial:
Drag Queens on Ocean Drive:
My daughter prepared a mostly vegan meal the day after thanksgiving, which was more convenient for everyone who was not hanging out with their in-laws on Thanksgiving Day this year, which also would have been my father’s birthday.
I paid for the groceries and Alexandra did a lot of the work, with Rob’s help, especially cleaning up. My daughter featured this on her blog prominently and was happy to mention that none of the family or friends who also were able to partake even asked where the meat was because it was so fulfilling and tasty, despite being very healthy.
Visited my daughter and Jesus with my dogs. We walked from their place to the nearby park, where to my surprise they have water skiing. It’s right next to the busy freeway and close to downtown Berkeley. What a juxtaposition. Our evening followed a visit to Peet’s Coffee on the newly renewed part of 4th Street, which reminds my daughter and me very much of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Later we had dinner at Herbivore, which I had gone to many times on Valencia Street in San Francisco, but never before at their Berkeley location.
So this weekend is a very special Pride with gay marriage back on the books for California and a glimmer of hope for the entire USA in the years to come. I’m having a big birthday (I find the fives are the hardest) on Tuesday, followed by a very long vacation that I’m getting very excited about to Vancouver BC (so my first time in Canada), Seattle, Iceland, London, Paris, Barcelona, Roma and Calabria, and maybe Germany and a few other European cities before returning in August for a long Lazybear Weekend in Guerneville. Did a lot of research on Iceland (which has a lesbian prime minister) today and I’m excited about being in 24 hours of light and seeing all of the “unearthly” things that environment has to show me.
All that and my daughter recently getting married and taking a honeymoon to Maui makes this one of the most monumental summers of my life.