May The Stars Light Your Way
Hello to Edgar (an old friend), and new friends Steffi, Rosa, Mikey, Toro, Fernando, Tavo, Buddy, Jenny, Dawn, Jon, Tasha, Craig, Jochen, Daniel, Sandy, Jim, Marta, Flavia, Jimena, and the others! It was our sincere pleasure to meet each of you during our trip to…
Just a french-bread pizza and a green salad tonight because Wendy & I had to run to Home Depot to pick up a few things — a new doorbell to replace ours that finally died and some florescent light bulbs to replace those in our…
Tonight we saw THE GUYS at Falcon Theater. As a result, our time was very limited between work and leaving for the show, so it was Beefaroni out of a can for me.
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality was killed by a stingray while he was filming an underwater documentary. But is that the whole truth? Consult the picture below, taken in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera on September 8, 2006, for some shocking evidence to the…
Simple dinner this evening as we spent time unpacking and getting everything back in order. We ran through Frisch’s for a fish sandwich, onion rings, and cottage cheese.
For this, our final dinner at Barcelo Maya Caribe Resort, we dined at Don Quixote, their Spanish restaurant. Antonio was our server and did a very good job with us.
We started the meal with two glasses of sangria. Drew had a tapas plate with stuffed squid, baby octopus salad, a manchego cheese ball, marinated mushrooms, stuffed eggplant, spanish rice and peas, and ham and tomato spread on toast. Very tasty. Wendy enjoyed her roasted peppers stuffed with seafood puree. We then enjoyed our shrimp bisque — it was smooth and satisfying, and the fresh-fried crutons on top added a nice crunch. Drew had Blue Cheese Beef Tenderloin with poorly tourneed carrot & potato. The meat was well-seasoned and prepared to a perfect medium-rare. Wendy’s grouper with asparagus, shrimp, and white wine cream sauce with peas was delicious and fresh.
For dessert, Wendy had Triple Chocolate Cake and Drew had Cheese Pie. Antonio told Drew that the dessert was, “Very Spanish”, and warned that “you won’t like it”. He was mostly right… I didn’t particularly care for it — like most desserts, it wasn’t sweet enough to the American taste and the texture was grainy somehow. We had some coffee and then went back to the room to pack.
Tonight’s buffet theme at the Barcelo Maya Caribe Resort was “Gala Buffet”, which seems to translate to “leftovers”, though they did have some unusual items like Beef Wellington (dried out), salmon, prime rib, mushroom voulavent, and a chocolate fountain. Dinner was tasty for the most part!