We had dinner with friends last night up at the 94th Aero squadron restaurant on the edge of Miami airport. It’s a unique, historic building and we had a window table with an easy view of a runway toward the cargo terminal. Part of being unique is they have headphones you can use to listen to air traffic control and pilots. Our friends are from NJ and we usually seem them once a year, although the schedules didn’t sync last year. They don’t eat much at night so they split a pecan topped salmon. I was torn between that, but Hubby and I shared a salad and I didn’t really want more leftovers so I had the Shrimp Guadalajara appetizers. Really a luncheon size portion with four tostones topped with guacamole and spiced shrimp and a small mound of pico de gallo on the plate. I did give a tostone to each of the guys. Oh, Hubby had grilled mahi topped with a couple of grilled shrimp.
Anyway, the male friend travels extensively even though he is now retired and the wife less frequently. As it turns out, she doesn’t like to be gone for more than a week at a time; two max. They sort of accidentally scheduled two trips almost back to back. Her husband, from Cuba, comes each year to visit family (and is usually able to add on here to dive), but the family was originally from Spain. For a reason mostly doing with the grandchildren’s spring break, they will barely get back from this trip and are taking daughter-in-law and the grandchildren to Madrid for them to meet that branch of the family. Our friends will stay at the house they’ve rented in Madrid the whole time while the daughter-in-law will take the children by train to Barcelona for a few days. Interestingly, despite her many years of travel, our friend thinks about things that can go wrong; even something like what if they don’t get to the airport in time for the flight. She laughed about it and said she knows the trio will be okay traveling on their own for the few days, but she also knows she’s going to want to hear from them at least once a day to make sure there are no problems. How nice it is to have cell phones to make that part easy.
