A Story

Today was my lovely wife's birthday. For lunch we loaded up all the kids and went to one of her favorite places to eat.

The kids aren't huge fans of anything that doesn't come wrapped in paper or delivered in a cardboard box, but this place has amazing food and a very family friendly menu.

It was very quiet, being later than the 'normal' rush time, which is when we normally try to go because at busy times it's hard to seat the 10 of us. (Well, 9, Mr. D couldn't be there, he had a gig.)

And being a crowd unto ourselves, we're always slow at ordering. But the hostess was awesome and even took a picture of us trying to figure out what to eat.
When ever you go to a Greek place, you have to get flaming cheese. So of course, we did....

 (Not a video from today - mine didn't turn out *sad face* but this is the same place...)

The staff was very awesome and patient with us, even when miss R said the cheese was "ew gross!"

So we order the food. The kids all got burgers and fries - which looked and smelled amazing - and Anna and I got the "Award Winning Gyro".

This happy thought greeted me on the way to the restroom:

 Miss V was very facinated by Na-na's light-up Halloween necklaces.

 I drew a walrus. Nos sure why he had to be all rainbow-y, but we didn't give the kids any brown crayons to go with their kids' menus.

 We had a really lovely time joking and visiting while we waiting for our food. The kids didn't have to wait long. Their burgers looked awesome!

 Miss V got a little overwhelmed at all the excitement and decided to crash. Which was just fine because she couldn't have any of the awesome food we were having anyway.

 Miss R was having so much fun that she barely ate while we were there!

 Mr. I and Mr. L had themselves a lemon eating contest. Mr. I got as far as one tiny nibble.

 Mr. I, however, dove right it, putting the whole slice in his mouth!

 At first he was all like...

 That wasn't so bad! So let's have another.

 Miss G decided my walrus drawing needed improvement, so she added a beret and glasses and named him Jamie.

The rest of the food arrived and we all really enjoyed it. So much so that we barely spoke as we stuffed our faces with those amazing noms!

At some point I had Miss G slip away to mention to the hostess that today was Anna's birthday. They delivered a little birthday surprise...

 Anna was sufficiently embarrassed.

 Miss R never did eat, but she had a great time.

 We waved good-bye to our beloved Greek place - left overs in tow.

 Everyone was full, happy, and tired.

 Mr. Sloth was not impressed.

 After attempted homicide, we went shopping.

 We looked at some Halloween stuff... I really thought the snowman and penguin would at a lot to our spooky display...

Mr. L, of course, wanted to add Angry Birds to our decorations....








All in all we had a great day. While shopping we got some last minute gifts for mom - and then pretty much crashed when we got home.... no pictures of that, though. Pretty boring watching people sleep.

Happy Birthday Anna, hope it was great.