Saturday morning started brilliantly. When getting into the car to run a couple of errands my bad knee locked up on me. This happens a couple of times every year in the most innane ways and I guess since it has been about 6 months since the last time, I was due. Normally it means that I limp around for somewhere between 2-10 days and frim how it is feeling today (Monday), it should be closer to the lower end of this.
We went to a local tile and flooring place to select a vinyl floor for our kitchen. The tile we installed 5 years ago is having some problems and we both think that this will be both a better look and easier to deal with.
Needing to grab something for lunch, I commented to Mindy that there was a new White Castle "restaurant" (a bit of a stretch to call it this) in a neighbouring town and so to have something different, we thought we would eat there. Both of us had been there before but many years ago. Their reputation is for attracting the late night munchy crowd after a night of drinking and their burgers are quite small so they come in large numbers.
Anyway, we arrived and the place was basically empty. There was only one person sitting at a table (more on him later). When we get to the counter, EVERYONE in the place was staring at us - the two servers and the 10 or so people in the kitchen, simply waiting for us to speak so they could pounce on the order. It was quite strange. Walking to our table, Mindy noticed that the guy sitting at the table was clipping his nails right there and just letting the clippings fall on the floor. What she hadn't noticed that I pointed out to her was that he was an employee, proudly wearing a new White Castle shirt! I guess the positive way to look at this is that at least we can know they have clean nails when preparing your food. Now to the food - it was as disgusting as it looks, this place truly takes bad fast food to another level. I guess in some way we knew this would be the case...but it was well and truly confirmed. There was some writing on the food packaging with a number to call "Did we satisfy your crave" - a resounding NO would be the answer there.
Saturday night was all planned to watch the cricket. The timing was perfect as Mindy was going to a friend's house for a birthday party. Unfortunately the rain washed everything away, even more frustrating as we were in quite a good position in the game. My alternative was to watch a 4 hour documentary on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was well worth my time and an interesting, behind the scenes type look at the man and his band over the past 30 years.
Sunday involved a birthday party for the kids to attend at a local gymnastics place. They had a lot of fun, Naomi throwing herself into the foam pit and loving it...Fiona being a little more cautious and sliding into it as easily as she could. Afterwoods, some friends came over for a holiday gathering where it became that Fiona was getting sick. She had a fever last night but seems a little better this morning. Hopefully it will not last too long.
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