{"id":3255,"date":"2011-08-24T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tampabaybreakfasts.com\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:35:33","slug":"mamas-family-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tampabaybreakfasts.com\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Mamas Family Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been to Mama’s so many times. Mama’s was our first ever review, back in early 2009.<\/a> But this is the first time we’ve been by bicycle, ridden on 21 August 2011.<\/p>\n

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On the way, we stopped to look at these neat motorcycles.<\/p>\n

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Then we found this areal survey target. That’s really neat. There’s a lot of things I’ve never seen before, and this is one of them.<\/p>\n

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And here we are, front-door parking!<\/p>\n

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It’s just me and Ivo, as you’ve probably figured out since we’re on the bike. We had a good laugh, Ivo and me, about how we have these here car keys, but no car. Hahahahahahaa! That’s funny!<\/p>\n

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Now, I’m not going to lie to you. Ivo already had breakfast before we left the house. But that never stopped him from wanting to just “have a look at the menu.”<\/p>\n

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Of course, this waiting for breakfast thing gets old. So Ivo started eating the menu.<\/p>\n

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Seriously, just gnawing down on it like it’s made of pancake or something.<\/p>\n

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Have to wash that down with some water. Now you, faithful reader, may have noticed that Ivo usually has a bottle. Or at least a sippy-cup. Not today. In the finest of guerrilla-dad traditions, I brought him without any change of diaper or clothes, no toys. no food, no sippy cup, no bottle, no baby-anything.<\/p>\n

So have a drink of water, kid. Let’s see where this goes.<\/p>\n

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Still learning this one.<\/p>\n

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But we’ve got this one working pretty good. <\/p>\n

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This is a simple breakfast for us at Tampa Bay Breakfasts. But it’s just me and Ivo, and like I said, he’s already ate.<\/p>\n

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Not that you’d notice by how he’s teaching this pancake a lesson.<\/p>\n

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Ivo’s thing now is to give you things and then let you give it back to him. Hours of fun. It even works with a wad of pancake he takes out of his mouth.<\/p>\n

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This game is fun, but it’s the intensity on his face that I love most. Fun AND important.<\/p>\n

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And we all know that little boys need a coffee in the morning. Ivo’s already looking for the go-juice.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Vicky. We love Vicky. She is our favorite waitress in all of Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Vicky with Marek back in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Loaded up and ready to head home. I love the parking here.<\/p>\n

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On the way home, we ran into this neat old Dodge. Not literally, just as we passed it by on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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We live a few miles from Mamas. A full belly and a long, soothing ride makes a boy sleepy. If you’re a little impressed that Ivo’s sleeping on the bike, you should be even more impressed that I took this picture while pedaling. I’m still not sure how I managed it.<\/p>\n

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It’s another five pancake rating for Mamas’ on Florida. Really, it’s a 4 or 4.5 pancake place, but Vicky gets a full pancake point all her own. Go get some breakfast, and tell ’em Andy and Ivo sent you! And Marek, too, of course.<\/p>\n

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