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Fun with Teddy & Tommy and NO SMOKING INVOLVED!

SkyGirl
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Last week, I had a long (30 hour) layover in West Palm Beach, where Teddy (joyeuxencore) lives.  I've been to Teddy's stomping grounds before, but this time Tommy drove all the way from Naples across the state to join us, so it was a most excellent day.

Teddy took me to brunch at The Sailfish Marina, a beautiful restaurant on the waterfront.  We ordered crab omelets.  We had talked ourselves into thinking they were sort of a healthy choice, until they arrived at the table with melted cheese all over the top and grits/toast on the side!  We ate the fruit garnishes to assuage our guilt. We are masters of dietary self-delusion.

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Selfies are often more enjoyable in teeny tiny size, so as to minimize my wrinkles.  Actually, selfies are never enjoyable, but anyway..

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Then we went to Teddy's theatre (West Palm Beach DramaWorks, where she is the House Manager) to meet up with Tommy.  Teddy had to go to work, Tommy hadn't eaten yet and we had two hours to kill before the matinee began...so Tommy and I walked down the street to a restaurant uncompromisingly calling itself "Grease".  Tommy is on a strict carnivore diet, so we bellied up to the table and ate...meat.  And more meat.  Mine was a cheddar bacon burger which was the size of a Volkswagon Beetle.  I don't recall what Tommy ordered, but it was a lot of meat and it came with a very large steak knife and a bucket of fries. Delicious.

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Then we met Teddy at her theatre to see the matinee performance of "A Most Happy Fella" which I'd never heard of, but was written by the guy who wrote "Guys & Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".

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It was an EXCELLENT show and it was very cool to see Teddy at work, especially when she got up on the stage to welcome everyone and get the show started.  After the show, Teddy had two hours off and wanted to go to dinner.  More food??  Sure, why not?  So we walked down to a lovely restaurant called Oli's.  Actually, it was called Oli's Fashion Cuisine.  Could be healthy.  Could be fattening.  Could go either way...  It went fattening, complete with desserts to share, for which I bear the entire blame.

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This place had an entire wall that was a waterfall.  Check out the photo.  So cool.  The food was great.  Here's the salmon that Teddy had:

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We won't discuss what I ordered.  Tommy had more meat.

The very best part of the dinner was getting to talk to Giulia!!!  Tommy dialed her up and we passed the phone around the table. The waitress got a picture of the three of us.

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I got to talk to Giulia, too, which was absolutely excellent. I was too excited to remember to take a selfie of that.  Darn.  Teddy had to go back to work for the evening performance, Tommy had yet to drive all the way back across the state to Naples and I had a painfully early pick-up at the hotel at 4:15am to work a crack-of-dawn flight.  So we corraled a security guard and had him take a bunch of pictures outside the theater.

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It was a brilliant, fantastic, perfect day.  I came away with several observations:

1) Tommy is the most generous human being on earth.

2)  Teddy has amazing hair.

3)  I really must stop trying to cut my own bangs with fingernail scissors in hotel bathrooms.

4)  We ate too much.  Waaay too much.

5)  Best of all, there IS fun to be had after quitting smoking.  Lots of it!  And we didn't miss a minute of it because we weren't taking turns sneaking outside for cigarette breaks.  Heck, it's like we found extra time in our day to hang out together!

(Sorry this is so long!)

xxxooo,   Sky

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I'm a 64 year-old flight attendant for a major US airline. Prior to that, I owned an ice cream store and six hot dog carts and put my five kids thru college on hot dog earnings! Prior to THAT, I was Director of International Administration for Domino's Pizza, Inc. I was married to my H.S. sweetheart (dad of my 5 kids) for 17 years. I've been with Jeff for 23 years, but we just finally got married in 2016! Jeff & I live in Cape Meares, OR right on the beach. I'm from Ann Arbor, MI, where many of my kids/relatives still live. My flying base is Washington, DC, where I have a condo that I stay in when I'm between flying trips. My dream is to retire and stay home with Jeff and my two cats, Kenneth & Barbara...not happening soon, though. So I go home whenever I can get a week or more off. I LOVE to meet up with other EXers in the cities where I lay over. I usually blog about what cities I'm laying over in, so let me know if I'm staying near you! I'll buy dinner!! Xxxooo, Sky