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Forever Young, Part 2

5/31/2017

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      ...Continued from yesterday:  
     On Sunday morning My mother, Tom, and I  went to the 8:30 mass  at my mom's church in Seaford, Our Lady of Lourdes, 
where a lovely May altar had been set up outside the church.
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​   The altar inside Our Lady of Lourdes church.
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     Laura, one of my mother's home helpers, was at the service and afterwards came over for a chat, and a photo op. 
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    After church my mom, Tom, and I headed over to Pizza King, my mom's usual Sunday morning breakfast venue (see yesterday's post), where my mom declared that if I was going to keep taking her picture then she was going to start hamming  it up,
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...and where the waitress arrived at our table with my mom's standard cup of decaf before we even sat down.  "On Sunday morning we always know she's coming so we always save her a  booth,"  our waitress explained.
     I guess there are some things to be said for small-town living.
     The food was yummy: 
My mom ordered her usual, "one, one, and one"  (except that on the bacon it looks like they threw in two),
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​...and I ordered my usual, sunny side up eggs with potatoes and toast.
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​​      Tom went with the blueberry pancakes, which were huge and deliciously fluffy.
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       Soon after breakfast we headed to my brother's beach house in Bethany Beach, about an hour form Seaford along the Delaware coast.
        
When we arrived at my brother's house we were greeted by my niece's puppy Macy, who'd found herself a cozy spot in the sandy front yard.
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   After spending some time catching up with family members,
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...my sister-in-law set out some yummy snacks,
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​...which we all enjoyed.
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     My sister-in-law, Tom, and I went out for a walk to the beach.
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​...where the Atlantic coastline   was all shades of grey on this chilly, overcast day,
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​..such a different color scheme from what we'd recently seen along the Pacific coastlines in Los Angeles,
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​...and Hawaii,
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​...but still beautiful in its own grey way.
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     After our walk we said our good-byes then headed back to Seaford.
     For dinner we opted to return to Pizza King as it was the restaurant closest to my mother's house,

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​...the price is right,
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...and the food is good.
     My mom had the fish and chips,
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​...Tom had the turkey dinner,
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...and I ordered the cheese steak, which was as close to a Philly Cheese Steak as I've had outside of Philly (except that I ordered mushrooms on my cheese steak.  A real Philly Cheese Steak doesn't have mushrooms).
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     As everyone was in the mood for dessert (like when are we not?), my mom and Tom ordered the blueberry pie,
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..and I had my favorite of all favorites, coconut cream pie.
     I'm happy to report that this was a particularly melt-in-your mouth delicious slice.
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   After dinner we did a little shopping at Walmart.
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     Then we returned home from our long, busy day, all of us old enough to appreciate what a gift a long, busy day is.
6 Comments
joseph rupp
6/2/2017 02:21:48 pm

A REAL philly cheese steak may or may not have mushrooms an onions. What it will NOT have is sliced cheese as seen in the picture. It wiull have velveeta cheese

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joseph j rupp
6/2/2017 02:27:33 pm

Sorry. I meant to say Cheese Whiz. A philly steak does not have velveeta cheese

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Patti
6/2/2017 03:16:17 pm

Okay, well I did not know that a real Philly cheese steak could have mushrooms or onions, of course It's been quite some years since I've had one. But I assure you, there was no sliced cheese on my cheese steak - mayhaps you're mis-seeing something that looks like a slice of cheese? - in fact I had to open the sandwich and search through it for the cheese whiz, (or whatever substance it was), as it had all melted into the steaks, but it was there. so I figured it must be a real Philly cheese steak.

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Patti
6/2/2017 03:18:17 pm

That is to say, a real Philly cheese steak with mushrooms.

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joseph j rupp
6/4/2017 04:49:42 pm

I am not actually seeing any cheese, I just knew inherently that there was not cheese wiz on that steak, since no one uses it outside of philly

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Patti
6/4/2017 06:15:32 pm

I can't tell you what it was, but there was some sort of melted cheese-esque product on my steak

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