Vacation

I had an extra day off this week. A friend asked me to go to Spring Hill to hear her play some old time music at a festival at her school on Thursday. I ended up playing guitar for the band. It's years since I've played guitar on stage. Ooh… tender fingers…

After the festival we had dinner and headed for her place near Crystal River. We got up early the next morning, fed the livestock, and headed into town for a good old-fashioned breakfast at a good old-fashioned restaurant. There's a small area of touristy shops nearby so we headed over there after breakfast. We discovered a delightful little tea bar. We sampled some Kir Mirage, a black currant tea. Heaven on earth. We made ourselves comfortable at the bar. She had a spiced chai tea and I had iced Kir Mirage.

We visited the antique store and spent a lot of time there exploring the nooks and crannies. The owner told us about The Highlander Cafe. So that was our next destination.

The Highlander Cafe features some really great sounding sandwiches. We opted for desserts. Everything in the cafe is made right there. We had a slice of lemon cheesecake and a slice of chocolate cake. This was quickly turning into an eating vacation.

We headed back to her place. She does great therapeutic massages. She worked on my feet, back, and neck. When she was done I was so relaxed that I could hardly move. When I finally did get up I was still so far out there that I was slightly disoriented.

Then it was time to eat again. We went to Rocco's Italian Restaurant. We started out with some wonderful spinach rolls. My main course was lasagna. Excellent.

We stopped over at the video store to pick up a movie. We finally settled on The Prairie Home Companion, a movie both of had wanted to see but missed in the theaters. A lot of the performers in the movie are actual performers from the radio program. It's a fictional story about the last show before the theater is to be torn down. I'll be adding this one to my collection. Towards the end of the movie we had some chocolate cake she had picked up for the occasion. More food…

I was only gone for a day and a half but it felt like a week. It wasn't really meant to be a vacation, but we did all those touristy things you do on vacation. I got a chance to unwind from the "joys" of the job.