By Fernie Ruano Jr.
Most of your friends, who all watch way too much TV and therefore have been brainwashed to the point they believe their favorite supermarket will be out of turkeys and plastic cups by tomorrow morning, all lost precious sleep this weekend because they’re just consumed with leaving work early today and doing 100 on U.S. 1 in order to stand in line to pay for an overabundance of shit they’re going to wish they never bought when they wake up drunk on Friday morning to a full turkey, 11 pounds of stuffing, two pots of white rice, a sealed apple pie, a cooler full of beer, eight loafs of Cuban bread, a pot of black beans and a filthy tiled-floor staring them in the face after hosting 100 of their “closest” family members and amigos.
And if they don’t bother hitting the shower at 4 a.m. after doing shots and chatting it up all night with a bunch of hungry, chain-smoking souls, chances are they’re not going to smell very good when they mop the floor and eat a turkey sandwich with a side of stuffing at 1 p.m. before realizing they have already wasted half a day and really want to go back to bed, not sit in the back of a car for an hour while your best friend looks for a parking space at Aventura Mall.
But just because you’re not cooking a Thanksgiving dinner, hosting a bunch of people you haven’t seen since December and not watching grown men collide into each other the whole day, doesn’t mean you have to bury your face under your pillow on Thursday because there’s plenty of events in South Florida to be thankful for. And which will make you feel really good about yourself.
GIVING BACK: How about lending a hand to feed the less fortunate on this special day? Help feed over 500 homeless people and/or donate at http://www.homelessvoice.org. It will put a smile on many people’s faces; and yours too.
LACE THEM UP BEFORE YOU PIG OUT: Are you a runner and want to work up a sweat before you sit around the dinner table and eat like your partner just dumped you over the phone? Get a lift at the 2014 South Florida Turkey Day Run Miami, where walkers and joggers will come together for a morning of fun and exercise. You can sign up for the 5K or 10K. And there’s a Kid’s Trot, so bring the kiddies too. Run starts at 7:30 a.m. (http://www.turkeyday-5k.com)
TAKE IN A PARADE: Do you live in or near North Miami and enjoy being around people and floats on Thanksgiving Day? Winternational Thanksgiving Parade starts at 10 a.m. and will be followed by a festival with lots of food, music and kid’s activities. The parade starts at NE 6th Avenue and runs east on NE 125 Street.
VISIT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Do you have kiddies and want to take a cool snapshot for the holidays? Check out the Thanksgiving Tree in the lobby of the Miami Children’s Museum (980 MacArthur Causeway, Miami Beach, 305-373-5437, http://www.miamichildrensmuseum.org). You can even write a message on a paper leaf for everybody to read. How cool is that?
Do you want to know more about this 305-reeking, beach-bumming, Cuban food-obsessed dude? Well, then.. You can connect with Fernie @wordbyfernie (Twitter) and Fernie Ruano (Facebook) and visit http://www.latinbeatsvibe.blogspot.com . Who knows? If he really likes you, he might even give you his email.
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