DAYTONA BEACH FOR WEEKEND

“Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you're gonna get”.

This is a line from a famous 1994 movie titled Forrest Gump. This is all fresh in our minds as we went to dinner at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant on Saturday night in Daytona Beach. We headed there on Friday for a two night stay at the Hilton (hotwire.com... we love it, $59 a night!). We both needed a break and a dinner out. We stumbled onto this Bubba Gump restaurant and loved it!! I am sitting on a bench from the famous scene when Tom Hanks (Forrest) wears those funny shoes and has the box of chocolates and suitcase. If you haven't seen the movie, see it!! I don't even want to tell you who Bubba is, he is an important character in the movie. I actually have to buy the movie because Paul remembers nothing of it.

Remember those are NOT my shoes!

We took down all the canvas in the flybridge on Friday and closed up the boat tight, headed to Daytona. We had endless hot showers, cablevision and oceanview room. See below what we were looking at on Friday and Saturday.

We were on the 6th Floor, blowing and loud!

We came back to boat this morning and hosed down the boat, put canvas back up and the cushions too. We will be the very first boat to go into the water tomorrow morning … hopefully at slack tide. The lines are ready and we will get the fenders out too. They have many boats to go in because with the weather they are running behind.

Bubba: Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.