The significant other's drean production is a little closer to home. It's the Annual Americas Food & Beverage Show at the Miami Beach Convention Center and I'm in a state of exhaustion having just returned from a two hour eating and walking marathon.
There is nothing Benard loves more than a good freebie and this show is absolute Nirvana in that department. With about 200 booths from all over the world offering samples to eat and samples to take, he is in total heaven. I do the eating. He does the taking, this year filling up to the brim two tote bags with goodies. The Show even provides the bags. . .what more can you ask. Check out the photo below taken when we returned home.
As a (former) very successful Sea Food Distributer, Benard still receives an invitation to the Trade Only Show. A few years back, he registered me as "Secretary", so I also receive a name badge. I think my job is to be sure we take home at least one of everything that is being given away. My personal favorite is a square package of something called "Ooey Gooey Chocolate Cake" by the Southern Sweet Potato Company of Mississippi. Don't ask the calorie count of that one.
In between endless bites of all kinds of seafood and lots of fried sausagey stuff, I managed to put away a cup of Key Lime Gelato, a cup of Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream and a handful of yummy white Brazilian chocolate. I washed them all down with cups of Coconut Water, something from Brazil that tasted like coffee soda, a few sips of some new energy drink, some fresh pineapple juice and a glass of red wine. And oh yes, a cup of freshly brewed espresso.
Don't wait up for me for dinner, Benard. I think I need to spend a few hours in the gym.
