A Crossroads Christmas in Key West
Santa visited Crossroads in the night on Christmas Eve & decorated the mast inside the boat and arranged all the gifts under the "tree". The gifts had been in hiding in the backs of lockers, under closet floors - any place they could be stashed. I hope we found them all. Our families had sent us off with gifts & goodies to make our first Christmas away from them very special. We miss ya'll but we also had a wonderful day.
Michele prepared her Mom's traditional pork tenderloin & I was in charge of the gravy - both were excellent. We made biscuits on our new (gift from my Mom & Dad) oven stone and enjoyed biscotti from Gail and our last grapefruit from Dad. There were stockings to open from Michele's folks and other gifts to make it really feel like Christmas in paradise.
We took the dingy ashore in the afternoon for Christmas dinner at Willie T’s. The place looked like a slightly touristy bar but the food was a real surprise. We feasted on conch fritters, salad with Gorgonzola cheese and figs, blackened Mai-Mai, sweet potato home fries, veggie shreds and of course key lime pie. The pie was the real topper. It was very tart and textured almost like cheesecake – yum!
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