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draggonlaadyWent out on the town with my mom last night... we were aiming for a 7:30 show at the local community theater; a comedy called Barbequing Hamlet. We somehow got messed up on our time and arrived in town about an hour earlier than we thought--and we'd been planning an hour for dinner. "Arrived in town" here means almost an hour drive, by the way. To get to the town of 1900 friendly people and 1 grouch. Or so it says on the welcome sign.
So we go to find dinner. The only restaraunt-like-business open on a saturday night is the bar. Which has good fettucini, so that's alright. Except that they have NOTHING resembling dessert, and we still had an hour to kill after dinner. So we went hunting for dessert.
Went all the way up the 2 main streets, and found one espresso place still open, another bar, and it turns out the co-op/organic place is open late. So we stopped there, because it had a big Bakery sign out front. But the choices were ice cream (good option, really...but it's FREEZING out), or organic carrot cake. We decided to try the grocery and see if they had a better choice. So we wander over to the grocery, in search of chocolate. We end up buying a German Chocolate Layer Cake and 2 bottles of water. With one minor incident at checkout (the $0.49 bottles of water rang up at $5.99 each!), we settled in at the picnic table by the deli to eat our cake. Yes, that's right... we each got a plastic fork from the deli, and started on our respective sides of the cake. No, we didn't eat the whole thing...we're crazy but not that masochistic.
Then we headed out to the theater. Parking is in the field out back, which is fine--they've got a nice gentleman who looks like he fell off his harley and lost his gloves directing parking. We find a spot and turned off the car, then turned on the lights to find the tickets. Got out and locked the car, then realized we'd forgotten to turn off the lights. So mom unlocks the car (which turns the lights all on anyway, and realizes she can't remember WHICH light we'd turned on. So we fumble with the lights and stuff for several minutes before we get it right--All the while I'm thinking the parking guard is gonna think we stole the car cuz we have NO idea what we're doing. (No, dammit, we DIDN'T have alcohol with our fettucini; this is all our inate insanity.)
Get inside with about 20 minutes to kill before they even open the seating area. Wander around inside the lobby, because at least it's heated. Finally get in and the show was hilarious--I do recommend it for anyone that likes to laugh, and especially anyone that's ever been involved in community theater. It is basically a play about making a play, and all the stupid/aweful things that community theater directors have to cope with.
All in all, we had fun and laughed a lot, but it really shouldn't be that complicated to find dessert!
So we go to find dinner. The only restaraunt-like-business open on a saturday night is the bar. Which has good fettucini, so that's alright. Except that they have NOTHING resembling dessert, and we still had an hour to kill after dinner. So we went hunting for dessert.
Went all the way up the 2 main streets, and found one espresso place still open, another bar, and it turns out the co-op/organic place is open late. So we stopped there, because it had a big Bakery sign out front. But the choices were ice cream (good option, really...but it's FREEZING out), or organic carrot cake. We decided to try the grocery and see if they had a better choice. So we wander over to the grocery, in search of chocolate. We end up buying a German Chocolate Layer Cake and 2 bottles of water. With one minor incident at checkout (the $0.49 bottles of water rang up at $5.99 each!), we settled in at the picnic table by the deli to eat our cake. Yes, that's right... we each got a plastic fork from the deli, and started on our respective sides of the cake. No, we didn't eat the whole thing...we're crazy but not that masochistic.
Then we headed out to the theater. Parking is in the field out back, which is fine--they've got a nice gentleman who looks like he fell off his harley and lost his gloves directing parking. We find a spot and turned off the car, then turned on the lights to find the tickets. Got out and locked the car, then realized we'd forgotten to turn off the lights. So mom unlocks the car (which turns the lights all on anyway, and realizes she can't remember WHICH light we'd turned on. So we fumble with the lights and stuff for several minutes before we get it right--All the while I'm thinking the parking guard is gonna think we stole the car cuz we have NO idea what we're doing. (No, dammit, we DIDN'T have alcohol with our fettucini; this is all our inate insanity.)
Get inside with about 20 minutes to kill before they even open the seating area. Wander around inside the lobby, because at least it's heated. Finally get in and the show was hilarious--I do recommend it for anyone that likes to laugh, and especially anyone that's ever been involved in community theater. It is basically a play about making a play, and all the stupid/aweful things that community theater directors have to cope with.
All in all, we had fun and laughed a lot, but it really shouldn't be that complicated to find dessert!
