Headed Home

We said goodbye to Aiden this morning in a beautiful service at Chapel Hill Cemetery in Orlando. I made some food for the family gathering at Dennis & Tina’s house (arroz con gandules and pernil) and after staying for a little while with family & friends, we headed back to the shop to finish up all we could before heading back to Alabama: the mock up block back in place, the transmission installed, the trans-tunnel sheetmetal secured. Basically, everything we could secure before Josue takes it to paint the exterior. Since the PRI is less than 2 weeks away, we had to assemble as much as possible to leave the guys in FL with as little to do as possible in my absence.

After a quick dinner at Friday’s Front Row, where we watched Auburn beat Alabama yet AGAIN (Still can’t figure out why all my obnoixiously BAMA friends didn’t respond to any of my text messages after the game–War Eagle!), we went down to the “corner” to see what was happening on the street hotrod scene. The “corner” is the name given to the street performance car “hang-out” located at the corner of Colonial Drive & Orange Avenue, the main drags in downtown Orlando. There were a couple of quick mustangs, some vettes, a few camaros, and a bunch of bikes. It was a “small gathering” compared to usual “corner” attendance, perhaps due to the holiday weekend…. oh the things I miss about Orlando!

I’m sad that I’m leaving tomorrow, but excited to be going home to start my new job. More on that to come!