When we were dating, my husband and I had our first vacation together in Miami and I introduced him to stone crabs at Joe’s. Every year after that, we would order stone crabs from Joe’s to be shipped to us for New Year’s Eve and would look forward to that for weeks! Well, in 1997, our order was placed well in advance. Much to our surprise, I went into early labour with our twins, who were born on Dec. 30th. Needless to say, our claws arrived promptly on the 31st as ordered, so we celebrated New Year’s Eve, and the birth of our girls, at the hospital with the entire Labor and Delivery nursing staff, enjoying a delicious meal of stone crab claws from Joe’s. We used surgical instruments as utensils too. I bet the cleaning staff is still finding bits of shell in corners of that hospital room!
