Florida Vacation Day 3

So, like even with a phone that now takes pictures I still can't do a very good job anymore of taking pictures.

After a very late night last night with Samantha Fish, we kinda slept in this morning. Bruce took Allison to a family fun center this morning for a little bit to play games, etc.  We then headed to "downtown" Tampa, but stopped in Ybor City, which is the Cuban and other immigrant influence. Very, very neat area.  We stopped at this park which was having a Saturday morning vendor fair.  There was a Ybor City Museum just across the street that we also went to. 

Our lunch find was a real treat!  It was the Columbia Restaurant which has been in business since 1905.  It is a Cuban/Spanish restaurant.  Bruce had the Cuban Sandwich, which is still made exactly the way that it was made in 1905 when the cigar making workers would come for lunch.  He also had a mojito (pictured below).  I tried my hand at Sangria  because it is supposed to be really spectacular here.  To me, and my nonalcohol tastes, tasted like wine with ice cubes. It was okay, but not great. 

Following lunch we went to the Henry B. Plant Museum.  It was really spectacular, and I should have taken a picture.  He was one of the great selfmade millionaires of the 1800s.  He had like 8 hotels, and I guess this was the finest. It was quite something.  It now houses the museum and the University of Tampa. While we were there, there were at least 3 wedding parties getting photos taken, as well as another girl in a very lovely gown, and I wonder if it was her "quincione" or however it is spelled....16th birthday.  She was lovely. Tonight we are staying in a refurbished hotel, the Floridian Palace Hotel, which is nice, and grand, but very quiet tonight. 
By the way, it is really hot here! Ugh!  I'm not ready for summer!!!!!!

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