More Water Slides, More Beaches, and a Nice Dinner

[canyonwalker]

Florida Trip Travelog #10
Back at the hotel - Fri, 23 Sep 2022, 10pm

Friday afternoon and evening we've continued our "We're on vacation!" mentality. After eating lunch at the poolside cafe we went back in the water for a while longer. I rode the water slides a few times then joined Hawk for several laps around the lazy river pool. Soon enough we packed that up, though, as we wanted to go out and visit more of the beaches in the area.

We drove a loop down through Bonita Springs, out to the barrier islands, and up to Ft. Myers Beach before coming back inland and completing the loop back to the hotel. I could post pictures from the beaches we visited but honestly they all look the same in a boring-amazing way. White sand everywhere, shells everywhere, clear water that's so warm you can walk straight into it.

We decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner this evening, at a Brazilian rodizio restaurant. Rodizio is Portuguese for "meat parade"[1]. It's the style of restaurant where waiters bring skewers of grilled meats (and pineapple!) up to the table and slice off a bit onto your plate if you want it.

The meat parade is never cheap, but we had a special occasion. ...Actually, two special occasions. One, our anniversary is this week. We had already planned to treat ourselves to a nice dinner some evening while on vacation. Two, Hawk learned this afternoon— in a last-minute, must-attend management meeting she had to join from our table at the poolside cafe at lunchtime— that an asshole peer she and many colleagues find difficult to work with is being discharged. It was like a weight was lifted from her shoulders with that news, so we decided we'd enjoy our nice dinner tonight.

[1] The word rodizio has no direct translation from Portuguese to English, so I've coined its English equivalent as meat parade.

Comments

[sorcyress]

Heh, we refer to the local place as the "meat faucet". Parade is probably politer!

(I've never been, since I mostly don't like the taste of meat, but directly next door is a Brazilian bakery and they will sell me four pao de quejo for a dollar, or more frequently, a great many pao de quejo for five dollars!)

~Sor

[canyonwalker]

"Meat faucet", that's a good one. I prefer meat parade, though, because it acknowledges the work the smartly attired serving staff do, which is so key to rodizio style. I've been to other restaurants that are all-the-meat-you-can-choke down type places. When they bring the meat in bowls and just plunk them down on the table, that's more like a meat faucet. It's several notches lower on the elegance scale.