Haitian restaurant

Hi kids!

Well, little buddies, Angel Jen and I are still lying about in Miami
Beach, a sweet place to lie about if ever there was one, waiting for
the weather to get just right before we head out to sea again. As the
astute young hydrologists you are, you are undoubtedly familiar with
the fact that when wind blows across water in the oposite direction of
the current, the seas rise up in huge waves, steep and close together.
Since the Gulf Stream is running very strongly in the waters between
here and Lucaya, Bahamas, our destination, and it goes north, we need
a wind that is either coming from the south or west. Not north,
because of the waves, and not east because gentlemen never sail to
windward. 'Gentlemen never sail to windward' is an old saying that
came about from the fact that trying to sail into the wind, while
possible, is laborious, slow, generally uncomfortable and you get wet
from all the waves crashing into you. Sailing 'downwind', that is, in
the same direction the wind is going, is much more comfortable.

While we wait for a turn of meteorological fortune, we hooked up with
some other boat folks for a trip to a Haitian restaurant. Florida is
close to Haiti and quite a few ex-Haitians live here. The food was
very spicy and they had murals all over the walls, the tables,
everything! Evidently Haitians love to paint stuff up in bright
colors. In the picture below there are two people and the rest are
paintings on the wall. One of the real people is Angel Jen. Don't the
people on the wall look real? Man, that's good painting!

I had goat meat while I was there. I had never eaten goat before. It
does NOT taste like chicken. It wasn't bad but I'd take a hamburger
over goat any day.

Recently the nation of Haiti had a disaster caused by an earthquake.
Did you hear about that?

Well, be good kids. Wait a minute. That goat was once a kid! I ate an
ex-kid! Well, be good kids anyway, and I hope you are as tasty as
that goat!