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| Gospel Brunch performers at House of Blues |
Sunday, 20
January 2013 – Today was planned as a reasonably quiet one to catch up on
laundry, blogs, postcards, television and enjoy the house. Justyn had planned for us all to head into
Downtown Disney to the House of Blues for a Gospel Brunch. Starting at 11am, we walked to the Disney
tram and caught it to Downtown Disney.
Dodging the many fans of the San Francisco 49ers who were queuing to get
in to the various venues showing the semi final live, we collected our tickets
and headed into the House of Blues. An
astounding buffet was part of the brunch – we enjoyed southern specialties such
as cornbread muffins with maple butter, pecan caramel sticky buns, hickory
smoked bacon, sausage links, homemade biscuits and country gravy, breakfast
potatoes, homemade waffles, omelette station, southern fried chicken, homemade
macaroni and cheese, Creole chicken and shrimp jambalaya, carved smoked turkey
breast and baked ham, and even brunch dessert!
After fueling up, we sat back and watched a great gospel show with the
most amazing singers – by the end the entire crowd was up on their feet
clapping and dancing along. Regardless
of your religious persuasion or lack thereof, the music and their passion was
very uplifting and you couldn’t help but get into the spirit of the
occasion.
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After being
entertained by the gospel show, we decided to go separate ways for the afternoon. Mum and dad found a shady spot to listen to
the musicians playing in the square, Peter and the kids hit the Lego store
before going to the outlet mall for some shopping and Justyn and I wandered
around Downtown Disney mixing people watching with some shopping. Finally we collected mum and dad and caught a
taxi back to the house to have a bit of rest and relaxation!
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| Justyn & lego hulk |
Later this
afternoon, our friend Patty and her daughter Keegan who live in San Diego were
coming to visit so Justyn and I decided that we needed a few items from the
grocery store so we took the Red Baron (the name of our Dodge Journey SUV of
course!) out for a drive around the local streets. Visits to the diverse American grocery stores
are a huge source of entertainment for Justyn and me as we love checking out
the different items and especially gazing longingly at the cereal aisle! There was no cinnabon cereal but we danced a
little jig when we discovered find Ben and Jerry’s Late Night Snack icecream in
the freezer section!
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| Dinner at W Laster with family & friends |
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| Byron!! |
Before long
Patty and Keegan were knocking on the door.
We had last seen them nearly three years ago when we were riding
rollercoasters so it was wonderful that we were able to catch up again. They had booked a hotel not far from our
house and stayed for dinner. When the
shoppers returned, it was wonderful to be able to introduce Keegan to Taylor,
Brittany and Byron and the two girls got along instantly. For dinner, we decided to try The Cheesecake
Factory based on Patty’s recommendation so with order in hand, Peter and Taylor
braved the traffic and queues to fetch our dinner which included a Banana Cream
Cheesecake! Dinner was great (even
though the cheesecake was completely frozen…) and there was lots of laughs and
stories over glasses of wine and beers.
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