Friends and Family Tour: Day 15 - Patty Manganero and family, Waterbury, Connecticut

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Day 15 - Patty Manganero and family, Waterbury, Connecticut

After our trip down Memory Lane (Connecticut style), we went over to visit Sandy’s cousin Patty Manganaro and her husband Tony. Patty is Sandy’s Uncle Ralph’s daughter. Patty and her husband live only about 5 minutes from Marilyn’s house. Tony is retired and their son Joe works in an Italian restaurant with his Uncle Jimmy. He is hoping to get his GED and go to the Police Academy. They live in a very nice neighborhood in Waterbury, just near the border of Wolcott.

Cousin Jimmy Myers and his son Chris, and Cousin Rosie and two of her daughters and two of her grandkids were there also. Rosie’s husband is from Columbia and even though he wasn’t able to join us, he made lunch: a pork shoulder roast and rice. Patty added cooked vegetables and a salad. It was a very nice meal.

We spent some time looking at family photos and getting caught up with everyone's life. It was good to touch base with cousins from our childhood that we rarely see.

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** Don’t be afraid to try local, unusual cuisine. For example: gator, buffalo shrimp, boiled peanuts, frog legs, a concrete (you figure that one out! LOL!). There is a reason it is popular there!

** There is nothing better than a home cooked meal!

** You can spend 5 weeks in the car with your spouse and still get along.

** Sometimes you should let it be all about the people and not the sights .

** There are a lot of lakes in Florida! A lot more than we thought. Also: there are no identifiable accents in Florida, everyone comes from some place else (mostly the northeast). AND Sandy finally got to see an 'gator in the wild, but it was a John Deere.......

**Don't forget to tell your loved ones how much they mean to you. Jim & Joanie

** When you take trips down Memory Lane, you have to remember that you can't really go home. But it does bring back warm memories of the past.

** You don't want to be on the phone when your GPS is telling you where to go. You tend to focus on the phone and all of a sudden you're hearing "recalculating", which generally means you missed a turn.

** Did you know if you have an "I-Pass" (Illinois electronic toll paying), it is accepted in other states?? It has saved us quite a bit of time by not having to stop in a long line of cars waiting to pay their toll. So far we have used in in Indiana and Pennsylvania and we have been told that other states accept it also! Ok - Florida does NOT take the I-Pass!

** We've noticed a great many winerys on this trip. And although we haven't stopped at any, we're thinking that could be fun on future trips: Picking up a bottle of wine from every state we travel in. Of course, the most fun will be sharing that bottle of wine with all of you when we get home!

** This trip is WONDERFUL! It means so much to us to visit all of these people. If you ever get the chance to do this, you must. You won't regret it. This trip is not about sightseeing and tourist attractions. This trip is about people, and that doesn't get old.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Day 15 - Patty Manganero and family, Waterbury, Connecticut

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