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Jacksonville Beach – Seafood restaurants

Like last time, a tiny list of restaurants to try if you, this time in Jacksonville Beach.

Joe’s Crab Shack
The advantage is that it is SUPER well placed, closer to the beach would be ON the beach, so it’s convenient + super nice view.
Order a Shark Bite cocktail and enjoy the great atmosphere, the servers even do a small dance from time to time, hard not to be cheerful after that.

I recommend their crab buckets. In addition you will get a personalized bib, check out the hashtag #letsgetcrackin on Instagram, it’s fun 😉
Here are ours:


We went back, this time I took a place and there was at least 3 meals in it (don’t forget to ask for a box to take your leftovers home) !

 

Billy’s Boathouse Grill
The best salmon I’ve ever eaten O_o – and nice view too 😉

Categories: Florida, Travels

Pogopalooza

When I was in Jacksonville looking for something to do to occupy my Friday afternoon before my last two visits, I heard of the Pogopalooza festival.
Pogo, or Xpogo, is an extreme sport one practices on pogo sticks. I know, not very clear so far but you’ll see ^.^ and Pogopalooza is their annual competition with 3 categories, Freestyle, High Jump and Best Trick.
A little “official” video for you to see some of that weekend’s events:

With my mother, we witnessed, among other things, the world record highest jump on a pogo stick, 10 feet .5 inches, tied by 2 riders: Dmitry Arsenyev et Biff Hutchison.

 

It was quite nice, we quickly get into it (I admit at first I thought it was a bit stupid, I went out of curiosity) and it is in fact a real sport.
For example, in the morning at 6 o’clock, Casie Merza started jumping on her stick to beat the world record for most consecutive jumps on a pogo stick to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital in Tampa, she broke that record nearly 9 hours later! If you want to beat her now, you will have to do more than 75005 jumps!
The next day my mother went back to see the Freestyle competition while I was on visitation with A.

Categories: Knit

Snood côtes 2/2 et Mitaines [sorry this tutorial is only available in French]

Je ne suis pas une tricoteuse expérimentée, et j’étais contente de trouver des tutoriaux/modèles simples quand j’ai pris mes aiguilles. Je suis du genre à suivre scrupuleusement les indications quand je ne sais pas vraiment ce que je suis en train de faire, mais à force de tricoter des écharpes, snoods, headbangs, et Cie j’ai fini par adapter les différents modèles à mes envies, aiguilles, laines ou destinataires des tricots.
Voici un petit tutoriel tout simple pour un ensemble snood + mitaines, pour débutants !

Le snood :
J’ai utilisé des aiguilles 7 et monté 40 mailles (monter plus de mailles pour un snood plus large, mais un nombre pair).
Les côtes 2/2 : tricoter 2 mailles à l’endroit puis 2 mailles à l’envers et on recommence jusqu’à la fin du rang. Au rang suivant faire 2 mailles à l’envers puis 2 mailles à l’endroit, etc.
Tricoter en côtes 2/2 sur la longueur de snood désirée (je crois que le mien fait 300 rangs).
Rabattre les mailles. Coudre les deux extrémités.
Les mitaines :
Aiguilles 7, monter 20 mailles.
Faire 10 rangs en côtes 2/2.
20 rangs en jersey (jersey : un rang mailles endroits, un rang mailles envers, et on recommence).
5 rangs en côtes 2/2.
Rabattre les mailles.
Coudre les mitaines sur le côté : partir du haut, coudre 5 cm, laisser un trou de 4 cm pour le pouce puis coudre jusqu’à la fin.
Vous pouvez ensuite décliner les mitaines à toutes les tailles d’aiguilles en adaptant le nombre de mailles et de rangs.
Categories: Jacksonville Addresses, Restaurants, Travels

Jacksonville – restaurants

You would have understood, my pen pal’s mother and her husband are taking good care of me. They took me to several restaurants, here are 4 nice addresses:

⋅ We ate at LongHorn Steakhouse on December 24th (I don’t know which restaurant exactly since there are several in Jax.), we all left with Doggy Bags, the plates are generous.
By the way, I very often left with my box of leftovers for an extra meal in these US restaurants.

⋅ Cracker Barrel. With a shop that sells candles as well as furniture, clothes, cuddly toys or humorous stuff.

 

⋅ Clark’s Fish Camp – a place with a crazy decoration, even more during Christmas time.
My pen pal also likes this place.



Him, he is alive.

 

⋅ Sandollar Restaurant & Marina. After crossing the river by ferry, I ate there with my pen pal’s step-father, very nice view 🙂.

The waitresses (never had a waiter!) are super nice, don’t forget that tips are “mandatory” but of your choice, so they try to make you rather happy 😉.

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