Spent the weekend in Gainesville visiting the younger heir.
Arrived after a nice Delta flight (one day I do need to fly myself there for the fun of it) and drove to meet her.
Picked her up and we headed to lunch at Liquid Ginger.
Excellent sushi. Really good, and it hit the spot after the drive in from Jacksonville.
On Saturday, we went to the Gators/Gamecocks football game.
A sold-out crowd, on Homecoming weekend no less, assembled to watch the Gators win as they were projected to do and the crowd was fired up accordingly.
Sadly this expected hometown win didn't happen.
It was quite a game day environment: Overcast with some sun peeking through on occasion, enough to get a sunburn, and the joy of 100% humidity and on top of a delay of game due to lightning within 8 miles of the field,
Two shorts bursts of torrential rain and a 30-minute rain delay didn't help things either, nor did the delay give the Gators a chance to recombobulate and come back from their terrible on-field performance.
The Gators lost, and lost badly 38-19. The Homecoming crowd was not pleased.
Still a fun time out with the kid, and great to catch up on what she is up to, and see how she is doing.
After some rest we had dinner out and then on Sunday met up for breakfast.
I then took her food shopping for necessary supplies, as one does, dropped her back at her apartment, helped her unload the shopping, and then headed back on the road to Jacksonville to head back home.
Even with the Gator defeat, ending my record of 100% wins when I'm at a Gator Football game, it was still a great weekend.
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