12/2/2023 0 Comments 164) Palm Valley Holiday Lights Boat Parade on the Intracoastal Waterway Florida, Vlogmas 2023 Day 2Hey Holiday Dreamers!! Merry Vlogmas 2023 Day Two, Baby!! Join me on this very foggy, wet, and humid evening along the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Valley, Florida! We are watching the Annual Palm Valley Holiday Lights Boat Parade as it travels up the dark waterway. The annual tradition of boat participants spans a seven mile stretch up the Palm Valley from the south to the north. There’s even a Christmas light decoration contest! Boat participants have their own contest, and tons of the docks along the parade route decorate as well. There’s a separate contest to judge the best decorations of the docks! I hope you enjoy watching the boats go by with us! This is our second time spectating this magical little parade and I absolutely love it! It’s now officially become an annual, little tradition of our own. So, thanks for sharing these special holiday memories with me! If you are new here, go ahead and SUBSCRIBE! Welcome to a community of Dreamers! LIKE this video, and SHARE out my holiday Vlogmas content with anyone you know who needs a Christmas cup of good cheer sent their way. I’ll be hanging with you each day of Vlogmas - see you tomorrow! Love you, Christine For more information on the Palm Valley Holiday Lights Boat Parade, check out their website, linked below: http://www.palmvalleyboatparade.com/ This was filmed LIVE on Saturday, December 2, 2023 in Palm Valley, Florida under the Palm Valley Bridge crossing the Intracoastal Waterway. Livestream number 41. #vlogmas2023 #palmvalley #vlogmas ___
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12/2/2023 0 Comments 163) Tony's Turkey Trot 5K 2023 Race Start 9th Annual Race for Brain Injury Awareness Atlantic BeachHey Holiday Dreamers!! A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all - and now, onto the Christmas Holiday season! Thanks for joining me as I watch the start of the annual Tony’s Turkey Trot for Brain Injury Awareness in Atlantic Beach, Florida! Just from the looks of this - I have never seen a bigger turnout for this race - what a FABULOUSLY successful run this morning y’all. I believe there were over 4,100 people participating in the race this year! So many people registered this year they actually had to close registration! Way to go everybody! We went for a lovely Thanksgiving Morning walk in the surrounding neighborhoods of Beaches Town Center, which includes both Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach. Then, we enjoyed a lovely outdoor breakfast and coffee at Southern Grounds Coffee Co. in Neptune Beach, as we watched the morning further gear up in preparation for the annual Petesgiving 2023 at Pete’s Bar in Neptune Beach. If you're going to Pete’s - keep in mind they start serving at 8:30am. Then we went for another walk out on the beach and I did a LIVESTREAM, which you can check out right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfVKvAG5f8 Here’s wishing you and yours a very merry and festive Holiday Season. Now -enjoy the start! Love you, Christine The 9th Annual Tony’s Turkey Trot 5K for Brain Injury Awareness takes place each year on Thanksgiving Morning in Beaches Town Center - Where Atlantic Boulevard Meets The Ocean. The race is located at: 1 Ocean Boulevard Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233 Further information about Tony’s Turkey Trot can be found at: https://1stplacesports.com/races/tonys-turkey-trot-5k/ Petesgiving takes place annually at Pete’s Bar on Thanksgiving Morning. Pete’s Bar is located at: 117 First Street Neptune Beach, Florida 32266 Further information about Pete’s Bar can be found on their website at: https://www.petesbar.com/ Also - check out this adorable story about Petesgiving: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/life/holidays/couple-who-met-at-petesgiving-in-duval-county-return-14-years-later-with-children/77-a1f053e7-b61d-454d-93ac-cb21e0c28fca This was filmed on Thanksgiving Morning 2023 in Atlantic Beach, Florida - Thursday, November 23, 2023. #tonysturkeytrot #atlanticbeach #thanksgiving ___ 12/2/2023 0 Comments 162) Merry Vlogmas 2023 Day One - A Very Humid & Wet Evening Stroll thru Neptune Beach FloridaHey Holiday Dreamers!! Merry Vlogmas Day One! Join me and my Shetland Sheepdog LIVE in Neptune Beach, Florida this evening as we take a leisurely stroll searching for Christmas decorations! We also had two cups of hot chocolate and marshmallows to keep us ‘warm’ - in the Florida humidity, of course. The night was foggy and very humid, with a cloudy mist in the air and a low fog out on the horizon line. Ahhhh - These are my favorite types of evenings at the Beach. We were driving around Neptune Beach trying to find any decorated houses that we could, and we stumbled upon a little ‘Christmas Village’ type scene and knew we wanted to walk through it. Then we walked out to the dark and desolate and wet beach of the Atlantic Ocean. The waves were intense - still! Not another soul was around. We had the beach to ourselves, and it was a lovely way to end the evening. Thank you for joining me as we celebrate the start of Vlogmas 2023. Please go ahead and SHARE out my content for others to enjoy all the festivities of this magical season! SUBSCRIBE - if you’re new here - WELCOME! And hit the LIKE button which will really help out this channel full of Dreamers. And - Thanks for joining me in a cup of good cheer! Love you, Christine This was filmed LIVE on Friday, December 2, 2023 in Neptune Beach, Florida. Livestream number 40. #vlogmas2023 #vlogmas #neptunebeach ___ Pronounced = WAH - HAH - KAH Connecting Food & Culture Hey Dreamers!! We finally made it to Oaxaca Club! This brand new Mexican Restaurant is located in Downtown Jacksonville Beach, Florida and I have been very curious to try it for a while now. And I’m here to tell you, while somewhat pricey - it’s definitely worth it… Let me explain. While it might have been a bit more than we were planning on spending, I’m glad we went, and I do think this is literally just the place Jacksonville Beach needs right now. The food was simply delicious. For appetizers we ordered chips and salsa dip, and for the main entree I ordered the Carne Asada Tacos, minus the cilantro, plus a lemonade. Bryan ordered the same Carne Asada, with the cilantro, plus a side salad. He also ordered an OC Margarita. So let’s start with the drinks. My simple lemonade for $3.00 and Bryan’s OC Margarita was priced at $12.00. The portion size of the margarita was quite small. So - It will go down fast, especially if you’re as thirsty as we were. We had just come from an exploration hike at Castaway Island Preserve - which you can check out on my YouTube Channel right here! And if you’re really hungry, here’s where some of the cost will add up. I was absolutely fine with my entree - but if you’re expecting your tacos to come with refried rice and beans, that is not going to happen here at Oaxaca Club. Sides are an extra charge and it can add up fast. The charge for a side of rice is $5.00, separate from the cost for refried beans which is also a $5.00 charge. My steak tacos cost $14.00 - that comes with two steak tacos on corn tortillas, zero sides. The tacos were FABULOUS! However, the simple math means if I wanted to add on a side of refried rice and beans, my entree would have been $24.00. We did order the tortilla chips and salsa - at a cost of $6.00. The chips were phenomenal, freshly made, and a beautiful presentation with the choice of three salsas to dip in. But again, usually chips are included at pretty much every other Mexican restaurant I can think of. So, that was an ‘extra’ $6.00 if you want the chips. So it was a bit more than I was expecting to pay, as I was assuming I was going to order a plate of tacos, rice and beans included. But you’ll probably love this new Jax Beach local, trendy, upbeat style of restaurant in town! And all this brings me to the main point of us coming here in the first place - Oaxaca Club is a new LOCAL restaurant. And ‘downtown’ Jax Beach desperately needed more restaurants like this right now, and was the main reason I really wanted to try this place. I’ve been a Jacksonville Beach area local since 2017. I’ve watched the downtown area at the Beach attempt to grow, get stalled due to 2020, attempt to grow, over and over and over again. I’ve seen restaurants and businesses close up shop, their buildings sit abandoned, an eyesore to the local area. And now, it seems, we are in a real resurgence again. A new local sushi place opened up just a few blocks away, fabulous new hotels are popping up, plus new restaurants. All taking away from the abandoned buildings that once sat vacant, then demolished, with empty fenced-off ground, on prime real estate. It seems these pieces of property are all finally coming to life again. It was sad to see such a fabulous beachfront location in Florida with really slow growth. For some reason, downtown Jax Beach just has had a very difficult time, for certain establishments, to actually grow and thrive. So I’m really excited about both Oaxaca Club and the new Jekyll Brewing, directly next door - which I’m going to venture over to soon hopefully. Sometimes, when I see the vacant land all fenced off, and the empty, blocked off pieces of property less than half of one block from the sandy shores of the Atlantic Ocean, I think that Jacksonville Beach ‘Town Center’ doesn’t really know what it wants to be when it grows up. But Oaxaca Club is the ideal and near PERFECT establishment to come into its own, here in our lovely holiday town square - did I mention Deck the Chairs is going on right now?! And that was actually one of the highlights of our meal… We sat outside (PET FRIENDLY!) at Oaxaca, watched a fabulously pink and golden sunset, while our eyes sparkled as the lights of the lifeguard chairs came to life directly in front of us. While Oaxaca may not be a place I can frequent on a regular basis, it was a most lovely dinner outing, and a real kick-start to the holiday season here at the Beach. And I truly do really appreciate the fact that any restaurant, and/or investor(s), wanted to take the risk that is our small and very undecided and up-in-the-air downtown Jacksonville Beach. I highly recommend trying Oaxaca, do spread the word, and give them a review and a shout-out to your friends and family. Because, while it may have cost more than we were expecting to spend, the ambiance was phenomenal. And to be able to sit and dine - outside - literally in the Town Square of Downtown Jax Beach, watching the holiday magical chairs come to life in front of our eyes during this special time of year, was an experience that I’ve never had in all the years I’ve lived here - and that alone, is priceless. I love you, Christine Oaxaca Club Mexican Restaurant is located at: 131 1st Avenue North #102 Jacksonville Beach, Florida 32250 And for more information on Oaxaca Club, check out their website linked below: https://www.theoaxacaclub.com/ I dined at Oaxaca Club on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. #oaxacaclub #mexicanrestaurant #jacksonvillebeach ___ |
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