New Years Eve Eve

We needed to abide by the standoff distance from the Greek bakery specified by the restraining order so we decided to head south and play tourist. We drove to Clearwater and ended up parked on the bridge because it was full of folks for an event associated with a bowl game in a few days. We finally got to Frenchys on the beach and had lunch looking out at the gulf over the white sand and breakers. Afterward we headed to the Florida Marina in Tampa, which was fun.

 

We wanted to go to the Columbia restaurant for dinner, which has been run by the same family since 1905 and seats up to 1600 people, but we were still full, so we saw Rogue One at the theater in Ybor City. Afterward we put our name in for dinner, but we must have been 1601-1604. When we were finally seated we had a nice dinner with their specialty salad and tapas, followed by tasty and moderately sized slices of key lime pie and berry cheesecake, plus a brick sized serving of a white chocolate bread pudding that was awesome.