The last two days have been quite interesting, involving traveling from one set of grandparents, to the other and back again. Here is a lengthy-ish version of yesterday and today. (It's kind of late at night, and I'm tired, so what I'm writing may be a little hard to understand.)
Yesterday, we left Titusville and drove to Tampa to visit my grandparents on my Dad's side. What Dad was not supposed to know, was that his cousin Andy Rodriguez was planning on coming over and surprising him. When we arrived at the house, Grandpa Pena asked us when Papu was going to get there. Come to find out, Grandpa had already told Dad on the phone that Papu was coming or something like that. Oh, so Papu is the Spanish nickname of Andrew Rodriguez, Dad's cousin and one of his best and closest friends during their younger years. Sometime around noon, Andy came over and we went out to eat at Sweet Tomatoes. After eating, we stayed there for maybe 1 to 2 hours just talking, after which we parted, planning to meet at a different restaurant for dinner. Later that afternoon, one of Grandpa's nephews came over. Grandpa is about 87 or something and his nephew is only a few years younger. He stayed and talked to Dad and Grandpa until Nathanael video-called Mom and talked to everyone for a while. Somewhere around 6, we drove to the Cuban restaurant and met Andy, Liana, and Brianna Rodriguez. Liana is his wife and Brianna is his 16 year old daughter. I really enjoyed meeting some of Dad's family, especially since Andy would tell stories Dad when they were young. I also realized that we aren't the only ones in the family that really aren't that Spanish, since Andy and his family don't speak that language and don't even have an accent.
This morning, we all woke up to a thunder and lightning storm that was so loud and lasted for a while. Our power actually went out for a while. After breakfast, Dad, Mom, and I walked around outside and looked at how things were so different back when he lived there. Oh, Grandpa has been attracting cats. There were 3 grey ones and 2 black ones, although one of the black ones left and I haven't seen it today at all. The friendliest of all of the cats was grey colored and the mom of about three kittens across the street. Grandpa feeds them like once a day. Last night when we came back from the restaurant, as we were pulling up to the driveway, I saw the mom grey cat laying on the grass beside the road with her kittens. As soon as we pulled up, the kittens ran back to shelter and the mom followed them a little later. Today, it was raining pretty much the whole time, and when Grandpa put the food out there for them, they had to eat it fast before it all got soaked.
This morning, another one of Grandpa's nephews came over and visited with us for a while. Later, while Dad and Grandpa were talking, we found out that we actually are not Cuban at all. That was a big surprise, since we have always thought of ourselves as part Cuban. Grandpa's parents or grandparents came from Spain, immigrated to Cuba, and then to America. After lunch, we made our way back to Titusville to spend the rest of our vacation.
I will be posting the pictures in the next post.
Yesterday, we left Titusville and drove to Tampa to visit my grandparents on my Dad's side. What Dad was not supposed to know, was that his cousin Andy Rodriguez was planning on coming over and surprising him. When we arrived at the house, Grandpa Pena asked us when Papu was going to get there. Come to find out, Grandpa had already told Dad on the phone that Papu was coming or something like that. Oh, so Papu is the Spanish nickname of Andrew Rodriguez, Dad's cousin and one of his best and closest friends during their younger years. Sometime around noon, Andy came over and we went out to eat at Sweet Tomatoes. After eating, we stayed there for maybe 1 to 2 hours just talking, after which we parted, planning to meet at a different restaurant for dinner. Later that afternoon, one of Grandpa's nephews came over. Grandpa is about 87 or something and his nephew is only a few years younger. He stayed and talked to Dad and Grandpa until Nathanael video-called Mom and talked to everyone for a while. Somewhere around 6, we drove to the Cuban restaurant and met Andy, Liana, and Brianna Rodriguez. Liana is his wife and Brianna is his 16 year old daughter. I really enjoyed meeting some of Dad's family, especially since Andy would tell stories Dad when they were young. I also realized that we aren't the only ones in the family that really aren't that Spanish, since Andy and his family don't speak that language and don't even have an accent.
This morning, we all woke up to a thunder and lightning storm that was so loud and lasted for a while. Our power actually went out for a while. After breakfast, Dad, Mom, and I walked around outside and looked at how things were so different back when he lived there. Oh, Grandpa has been attracting cats. There were 3 grey ones and 2 black ones, although one of the black ones left and I haven't seen it today at all. The friendliest of all of the cats was grey colored and the mom of about three kittens across the street. Grandpa feeds them like once a day. Last night when we came back from the restaurant, as we were pulling up to the driveway, I saw the mom grey cat laying on the grass beside the road with her kittens. As soon as we pulled up, the kittens ran back to shelter and the mom followed them a little later. Today, it was raining pretty much the whole time, and when Grandpa put the food out there for them, they had to eat it fast before it all got soaked.
This morning, another one of Grandpa's nephews came over and visited with us for a while. Later, while Dad and Grandpa were talking, we found out that we actually are not Cuban at all. That was a big surprise, since we have always thought of ourselves as part Cuban. Grandpa's parents or grandparents came from Spain, immigrated to Cuba, and then to America. After lunch, we made our way back to Titusville to spend the rest of our vacation.
I will be posting the pictures in the next post.
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