Wednesday, April 13 — Johnny and Joanne had recommended a breakfast/brunch restaurant in the same shopping center as Jeremiah’s called Berry Fresh Cafe. They had some unique menu items, both in terms of foods and beverages, that piqued our interest. The portions were huge and the food was fantastic. Keith ordered the Chorizo Crunch Wrap, which was a grilled tortilla stuffed with scrambled eggs, bacon, chorizo sausage, bacon, regular sausage, ham, cheddar and chipotle cream sauce. It was served with salsa on the side. Eric ordered the Nashville Chicken Biscuit, which had pimiento cheese, pickle slices, chicken tenders, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce served on a biscuit.

For dessert, we shared a trio platter of pancakes: one candied walnut banana foster, one strawberry lemon ricotta and one blueberry biscuit crumble.

After breakfast, Eric went to the boat yard for about an hour and a half to check on how work was going. Christi and Keith did school. When Eric returned from the boat yard, we all loaded up in the car and headed down to Ft. Lauderdale to see Tiki Tour. The drive down was uneventful.

We met them at their boat, which was now tied up in a boat yard waiting to be hauled out. Because of this, Dave and Diane were stuck onboard and couldn’t leave. We hung out onboard with them for a while. Keira was back from her trip, and it was nice to see her again. The kids played with an empty box for a long time. When Keith was little, he loved playing with empty boxes, but it has been many years since he’s done that. Now that teenager has set in, it was fun to see a flashback of the little guy again. The playing was interrupted when everyone had to run to the deck with fenders to help lessen the impact of an imminent collision with a boat trying to navigate out of a slip on the other side of the fairway. It was a narrow fairway and he didn’t seem to be an experienced driver.

At lunch time, Eric and the three kids went to a grocery store and picked up food for the group while Christi stayed onboard with Dave and Diane. After lunch, Eric and Christi took the kids to a nearby park and playground where they climbed trees, played on the playground equipment and played frisbee.

After the kids got their energy out, we went to a place called Dairy Belle, which had ice cream, hot dogs, sandwiches and a variety of poutines. Eric was curious about the poutines and ordered a 50/50. The sign said half brown gravy and half Italian meat sauce. Fortunately, they were not mixed together.

Under the sauces were French fries and chunks of cheese. Keith and Keira didn’t like either variety, Fynn and Eric said both were okay. Christi was relieved to find that the sauces contained pepper, so she was off the hook for tasting them. And, we all had ice cream.

When we returned to the boat yard, Tiki was in the sling and the work was nearly finished.

A few minutes later, they put her back in the water and moved her to a slip on the other side of the fairway. Someone was still onboard doing work inside, and we all hung out onboard until he finished for the day. When he finally left, Tiki texted a friend of theirs to let them know that we were all ready to go to dinner. A few minutes later, he picked the Tiki crew up and we followed them to a colorful restaurant called Pronto Pizza.

Their friend was an indigenous Bahamian from Long Island who had been living in Florida for a many years. He was a nice guy and very interesting to talk with. We enjoyed hanging out with him. The food was excellent. One of the pizzas we ordered was pork and plantain, and it was phenomenal. The portions were huge, so it was good value for the money.

Once we finished dinner, we headed back to the motel. We got lucky on the timing and managed to catch the lovely sunset.