| Sunday in Ashland |
 Sunday in Ashland
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Jul. 14th, 2008 @ 07:50 am 
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Yesterday was a quiet day. We all woke up late (for me that meant 7:30 am) and wound up together and in town about Noon. We got coffee and started wandering the shops, but Becca and I soon got hungry. Now she had been forced to eat Italian food the last two nights in a row, so I thought she deserved, if not to pick a restaurant, at least get one that had something she wanted on the menu (instead of having to pick the least objectionable item, as she had done).
Sounds good and not too bad, right? And she wasn't being overly picky, she just wanted chicken strips. Every place should have chicken strips, either as an appetizer or kid's meal or something, right? Not in downtown Ashland.
We walked about 8 blocks in the 90 degree heat looking for a place that had chicken strips. Our first try was an upscale microbrewery/restaurant. It had nothing but traditional pub food, but fancified up so that i didn't even want anything on the menu (things like bison burger with feta and sun-dried tomatoes). Then a cafe that had nothing but wraps. More wraps. An ice cream parlor with a lunch menu - wraps. An Italian restaurant. In Irish pub! -- that was closed on Sunday. Another all organic wrap shop. Another Italian restaurant.
Finally we turned around and found a good place. Very good food. Terrible service. Then they tried to include the service (even though we were a party of 5 and the menu said they only did that with parties of 6 or more). Dad objected, rightfully so, and we found out that our server had left for the day right after bringing our food. No bad feelings at all about not tipping him and a very nice server got that removed from the bill.
We wandered shops a bit more and I got a travel coffee mug and Becca bought two books -- How to Survive a Horror Movie and How to be a Villain. She read those while we looked in one horrible, ugly women's clothing store after another with my mother.
Then we came to a store. They were having a sidewalk sale. An inventory reduction/let's clean out the back room sort of sale. I instantly saw something I had to have, but wasn't immediately sure if it was for sale. It was . . . and then I had to think and see if I could justify buying it. I did and it is fabulous. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sabledrake will absolutely love it. Pictures will be forthcoming, but not until we get home. What it is will have to wait until it can be seen in person. It is that cool and unique.
At lunch, we had a long conversation about LOLcats. Mom, Dad and Kathy had never heard of them, so I spent a long time trying to explain them with words. So when we got back to the hotel, we took Kathy to I Can Has Cheezburger. She is now hooked.
We sat around and chatted and each of us had our laptops. Dad and Kathy went to a play that no one else wanted to see. We kept computing and I wound up working on the Ellis Bestiary and surfing through the Wikipedia for ideas. I came across this story which I love and would love to see a movie version of.
We said goodnight about 10 and made it back to our room just in time to catch Becca's favorite TV show, Code Monkeys.
I've been up for about 90 minutes and have been using my new travel mug at the hotel's continental breakfast and Becca is still asleep. I've written more bestiary stuff and am feeling pretty good.
My iPod is acting up though. It just started pausing the music for no reason, roughly every 2 minutes. That is going to get annoying very quick. I hope I can fix it.
--TimCurrent Mood:  chipper |
You tease! What store was it? You could tell me that much at least!
I just forwarded you a bunch of business-related e-mails from Rob, FYI.
-- C.
What store was it? I don't know if I should say. Just one of the many gift shops just off the main drag there in Ashland. I suppose we could play 20 Questions, but you'd never get it. ::tease more::
Thanks, I got the e-mails. I'll e-mail Rob in the morning.
:: spank :: Naughty boy!
Rob says, "Thank Tim for me, but honestly, it can wait (and tomorrow I'm going to be out, so if he can maybe wait until Wednesday if he insists on calling? That way I can be in front of the computer for numbers etc...)"
-- C.
I went and read that story, and you're right, that's a great one!
-- C.
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