Good Morning Day 24!
October 21, 2017
Stuart, Florida - West Palm Beach, Florida (36 miles)
We head south on on the inter-coastal waters from Stuart, Florida - West Palm Beach, Florida. Even though we are only traveling 36 miles today it takes us about 4 hours. There are multiple bridges with scheduled openings we cross. Sometimes the bridges were ready to open when we pulled up, others we had to wait 10 minutes, and a few times it was almost 30 minutes so we had to dock up and wait.
As we are traveling along we discover, Jim, one of our friends from Las Vegas is on a business trip in South Florida! He is only about 30 minutes away from West Palm Beach so he agrees to meet us at the marina. We meet him on the dock to take him for a little cruise on our new boat. We are are thrilled to see a familiar face! Jim and Braedy, his wife, have two kids that are roughly the same age as ours. We quickly became friends when they moved into the house across from ours a few years ago in. Now they are basically family. Nearly every weekend we would gather together for BBQ's and fun!
As we are cruising along a draft of wind comes along and swoops my hat off my head and into the water. I holler to Jacob,"I lost my hat!" I have already lost on hat this way; I should know better. He puts the boat in reverse while I keep an eye on my hat. I am able to grab it! This hat is a floater(wink).
We are all in agreement that sushi sounds amazing so I search Yelp for all you can eat sushi spots near us. I find
Kanpai in Boca Rotan; it's not all you can eat but they have a happy hour at the sushi bar with all you can eat $3 plates and good reviews. We all jump into Jim's car and head to dinner.
Apparently, we walked in the back door when we got there. No one was ready to seat us even though it appeared to be the front entrance. We waited for a few moments then walked in. Three girls were standing at the "real" entrance on the other side of the restaurant and were super puzzled when we asked to be seated. I'm not sure why they were so confused. We did park in their parking lot, walk through the unlocked doors that said Kanpai to find an empty hostess stand. Silly girls!
Kanpai is one of those sushi places where they have the boats that go around the sushi bar and you grab what you like for $3/plate in addition to any other sushi you may want to order directly from the chef. This was a new experience for us all so we wanted to sit at the bar, but the bar was full and the hostesses quoted us an hour wait. None of us wanted to wait an hour to eat, but we also didn't want to sit at a table and miss out on the happy hour boats. We contemplated for a few moments when the confused hostess informed us that four spots just opened up at the bar. Lucky us! The sushi was amazing, the selection on the boats superb, and at $3/plate we skipped out of there with a lower bill than our average all you can eat sushi bill! Jim dropped us off at the market before taking us back to our marina and
we made plans to meet him tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale.
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| The cool boats and our pretty faces ;) |
