Chez JAH for SPring Break
I took Allegiant to go visit JAH in FL over part of SPring break. Arrived at sundown on SAT 4 MAR 2017.
SUN 5 MARCH 2017- We went to the 9.00 family Mass for the First Sunday of Lent 2017 at Epiphany Cathedral Catholic Church in Venice. Fr Charles G Ruoff celebrated the Mass. He is a second career priest who was a former politician. I had never seen the children go up and bless their priest and their parents, but they did at the end of Mass that day.
The congregation sang:
(we arrived during the Liturgy of the Word)
Responsorial Psalm 51, S. Pishner
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Communion: On Eagle's Wings, M. Joncas
Recessional Hymn: Forty Days and Forty Nights, Martin Herbst & George H. Smyttan
We visited the Gift Shop; I got prayer cards and tokens by Lumen Mundi.
We then walked on Venice Avenue, a main street parallel to the beach, a street that was closed off for the Venice Art Show. After checking out a few restaurants, we settled on Made in Italy, a restaurant and bar, and we shared a Napolitan-style Tartufella pizza, which had tomato sauce, mozzarella, porcini mushrooms, sausage, truffle oil, and shaved parmesan cheese. We met up with friends Beth and Tracy for a play, Ideation, in which Scooter's character was portrayed by a Point Park University graduate. The Urbanite theatre was a perfect venue for this work. The play was amazingly acted, morbid at points, and amazingly morbid all at once.
From https://www.urbanitetheatre.com/season
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TUE 7 March 2017
Awoke early to continue to grade, then finished grading ~ 11.00 AM. We had sushi from the grocery store from last night for lunch. We planned food for dinner WED night, as JAH was to be having a dinner party. Nap, then left for Gulf Gate Library, where JAH had five students for her English as a Second Language (ESL) class, which lasted for 1.5 hours. We went to JCP afterwards to shop.
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WED 8 MARCH 2017
We went to one of JAH's workplaces. Met Ryan, and JAH led her class for Parkinson's patients. Many of the voice exercises were similar to vocal warm-ups for singers, and I told her some of the variations on the themes which we do for choral warm-ups.
Lunch at the Roadside Rib Shack, then we checked out the Mangrove grove near the aquarium. (Angel told us about it!) Sandwiches. Then, to Trader Joe's and the Orient Gift Shop for supplies for dinner. Time to prep for the party, laundry, and cooking. At 18.00 her friends Elvira, Mary and Richard came over for dinner. What a great dinner party and company!
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THU 9 March 2017
Went to the Ringling Museums on the estate. Visit was a reciprocal one, due to my workplace. Went first to the Visitor's Pavilion, then to the Original Circus Museum for a tour (where I bought a magnet of the "Five Graces"), then to the Museum of Art for a tour at 14.00.
Ate at Yoder's Restaurant for home-cooked Amish food, including their famous fried chicken, before departing for the airport.
What a grand visit!
posted by Grace @ 3/17/2017 05:18:00 PM
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