This sounds like a blast! Fla rocks. Ybor City has some great eateries. Fla is my favorite place to vacation and fish (I like to go bone fishing in the Keys). I would seriously love to go, but my wife would kill me if I ran off around New Years. It is such a big cultural thing in Hawaii (mochi pounding with the family, EATING RAW FISH [sashimi] firecrakers, etc.). Plus the 5000 mile plane ride each way is pretty gnarly (but not impossible). Put me down on the "will live vicarously through BigBet" list.