April 30, 2025 Breakfast at Airport. Lunch on Flight. Dinner - Five Spice Vietnamese and Sushi Restaurant

April 30, 2025 Breakfast at Airport. Lunch on Flight. Dinner - Five Spice Vietnamese and Sushi Restaurant

We awakened at 4:15 and were picked up and driven to the airport by Oscar at 4:45.

We checked in and bought coffees, a Chocolate Croissant for me and an apple torte for Suzette plus a ham abd cheese sandwich to take on the plane for emergency food.

We were seated on row 44 of the large Airbus 330. The last row in the plane.

The plane lifted off at 8:30 and soon we were served a sort of breakfast: crackers with some cream cheese, an inedible power bar, plus a small cup,of strawberry yogurt that was the only thing we did eat. I got a cup of tea and Suzette got water, so we shared more than half of the ham and cheese sandwich.

At 12:30 we were served a small meal of penne pasta in an Alfredo Sauce with a small salad with a creamy vinaigrette dressing and a small  doubled sided cookie filled with a lemon filling.

I got tea again and water with gas.

We arrived in Miami at 4:15 and it took until 6:00 to get our luggage and pick up the rental car because Miami International is a huge airport. I logged 5500 steps in 2 airports today.

It took over an hour to drive south the 25 miles to Homestead because it was stop and go traffic most of the way.

Finally the traffic lessened near Homestead.

We checked in at 7:15 and Unloaded the car and looked for a restaurant.

We finally decided on Five Spice Vietnamese and Sushi restaurant located about five minutes from our motel.

When we arrived I was unimpressed but it offered exactly what we each wanted. Suzette ordered a bowl of Lemongrass and pork noodle soup because she was feeling poorly.

I ordered Chirashi because I have been craving fresh fish. The Chirashi contained 7 slices each of salmon, Aji tuna, and a white fatty fish named escolar that I liked very much on a bed of sushi rice with a pile of flying fish eggs and thin ringlets of green onion and two piles of thinly sliced cucumber rounds. We also ordered a pot of green tea.

Both of our dishes were great. It was a wonderful dinner and Suzette started feeling better immediately. Her lemongrass soup was slightly spicy so she got some capasin and her eating some of the raw fish with pickled ginger in my chirashi helped get some ginger into her system.

As I write this blog Suzette is sleeping soundly and we plan to go to the Everglades tomorrow.

Bon Appeti