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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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november 18, 2001 - 7:10 piem
so lets see. Im finally back from springfield, and Im about to head back to st louis, but I thought Id post before I left, just in case I dont feel like it when I get back home.
anyway, Im sure youre all dying to hear about my weekend. last night we stayed at the luxurious drury inn, and we had the privilege of sharing the hotel with some the very noisy people with no real concept of bedtime. but it was all right, since I got to stay up late and watch "a few good men" on tv. the next day I awoke early (by my standards) to enjoy the continental breakfast (a muffin), and then met my grandparents in the lobby around 11:00. we then ventured off for lunch at the lambert cafe. for those of you not familiar with it, its a located somewhere between springfield and branson (a very interesting little part of missouri), and they tout themselves as "home of the thrown rolls." after an hour and a half wait, we were finally seated, and since we all had plenty of time to look over the menu before we got a table, the food came rather quickly thereafter. I had the shrimp (as you probably know, Im fond of shrimp), my brother and sister had fried chicken, my grandparents both ordered chicken and dumplings, and my dad got the chicken livers. all and all, the food was pretty good, even if their methods of distributing it were a little odd. servers would wander through the aisles with large pots of various food items, and at your request, they would scoop them onto your plate. I passed on the black eyed peas, as well as on the fried ochre, but the fried potatoes were pretty good. the rolls were fairly good, too, although their delivery method made me loathe to ask for as many as Id have liked. you see, its the "home of the thrown rolls," which means that someone carried a basket of rolls around, and if you wanted one he would throw it to you. I sort of preferred to focus on my food, since the whole atmosphere was a little much for me. but it was interesting, and the shrimp was good.
anyway, Im going to have to get on the road eventually, and the later it gets the less Im going to like driving, so Im going to bring this post to a close. Ill try to remember to post again when I get back into st louis, just to let you know Im okay. I know how all you readers worry about me driving at night.
Posted by on 18 November 2001 at 7:07 PM
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