#ThrowbackThursday A Visit with Gloria Estefan

My daughter and I love Gloria! Well, I guess I loved her first and kind of got my daughter in love. We recently went to see GET ON YOUR FEET and it was great and very interesting. Gloria and her husband Emilio have had both difficult and amazing times and to see their story set to their songs was both inspiring and amazing. We were almost dancing in our seats until the very end when we were up and dancing and cheering with the rest of the theatergoers.

This photo was snapped when we were on our way to a concert in NYC.
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#ThrowbackThursday My Fishing Expedition

This throwback is to last week and some time I spent fishing off a dock in Florida. I caught a croaker, but the no-see-ums got me and good. I released the croaker and am now dealing with an incredible number of bug bites, but it was worth it!
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Here’s another photo from last week of the lovely Jupiter Island lighthouse all done up for Christmas!
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#ThrowbackThursday Christmas Village 2010 and this year’s village!

Wow, counting down to Christmas Eve. Lights are up. Tree is up. Gifts are being wrapped and the Christmas Village is up. I changed it up a little this year from year’s past so today’s Throwback Thursday is a look at the 2010 village as well as photos from this year’s village!

You can click here to see the 2010 Christmas Village video if you can’t see it below.

Here are photos from this year’s village!

#ThrowbackThursday 2015 New York City Christmas

Today’s Throwback Thursday isn’t that far a throwback – just to this past Tuesday when we did our annual jaunt into New York City for the Christmas decorations. The video below is of the window displays at various New York City department stores – Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Sak’s and Bergdorf Goodman. We had a blast this year and I’ll be sharing more photos/videos shortly! Click here if you can’t see the Christmas Window video below.

#ThrowbackThursday My Dad

I’ve posted lots of photos of other family members, but not my dad. A lot of people say that I look like him and in this photo, I can kind of see the resemblance. My father could be distant and yet, amazingly romantic and sentimental. One of my most vivid memories of that was of one of the first times he took me to learn to drive. We were in a parking lot and I was tooling around when I heard a sniffle and saw him wiping his eyes. I asked him why and he said that it was because I was holding the wheel just like his dad used to hold the wheel.

I never really knew my dad’s dad. My dad’s parents were divorced and his dad had remarried and stayed in Cuba after all of us left. He died in Cuba when I was a teenager and I know my father felt his loss since it had been so long since he had seen him.

Anyway, here is a picture of my dad as a young boy.

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#ThrowbackThursday NY World’s Fair with My Sis

I remember the World’s Fair like it was yesterday! We went a few times since we lived close by back then. I loved the It’s a Small World exhibit that eventually made its way to the Disney theme parks. This is a photo of my sister and me at the fair. We were all ready for the sun with our cowboy hats! My sister was already shooting up to be taller than me. Sigh.

Some people don’t think that my sis and I look alike, but I think in this photo you can see that our faces are very similar. Especially the eye scrunch. We both have light colored eyes and they are more sensitive to the sun.
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