Greetings from the sandy white beaches of Orange Beach, Alabama where the Adairs and the Slatens are wreaking havoc and plotting world domination. Some highlights:
* Jonathan (my 2 year-old son) loves the beach and the water (even started swimming yesterday). Levi (Aaron's 14 month-old son)...not so much.
* Levi and Jonathan took some time to adjust to each other (actually it took Jonathan some time to adjust to Levi), but now they're boys and giving each other very manly hugs.
* The weather has been nice - rain on Monday and then again Tuesday night but other than that, blue skies and lots of sun.
* We have avoided the outlets thus far - praise Christ.
* I probably haven't read 30 pages from any book this week - partly by intention and partly not by intention. Still trying to figure out how I feel about that...
* Guitar Hero II is alot of fun when my wife isn't trying to talk to me when I'm playing or taunting me when I tell her I need silence to shred and melt faces...
* Office Season Two - very nice.
* Oceans Thirteen - average.
I do have to tell you about dinner last night. We decided to go pretty cheap and took the boys to Johnny Rockets that's located at a fairly recent shopping development/condominium called the Wharf. So we get there and experience perhaps the single-most bizarre dining experience of our lives. Consider:
* We were seated at a table and promptly forgotten for like ten minutes, even though four servers were standing within six feet of us. Standing around and doing nothing seemed to be the primary mode of operation for the serving staff.
* Once they drew straws for who had the misfortune of serving us, a guy named John served us. To his credit, I think he tried...sort of. Took him awhile to get our drinks and then after a pretty massive accident towards the front of the restaurant he told us he'd get our order in after he helped pick everything up. That didn't make any sense, but I think he meant well.
* We still don't know what happened to cause the accident, but it was rather noisy and messy. That happens when an entire tray of food including glasses filled with coke and milkshakes hits the ground and shatters. The server involved in the accident then spent the next 30 minutes angry at the whole situation - leaving all of us wondering if she was about to go postal on the whole place.
* She apparently got over her anger and after asking the other servers to dance with her (apparently the servers at Johnny Rockets are supposed to do some kind of line dance thing whenever 'I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone' is played) - she ended up dancing alone and did so with no small amount of agitation. Definitely felt like watching a car wreck.
* Aaron and Camille were charged $1 for reasons we're still not sure. Our well-meaning but rather inept server tried to explain it but four college degrees and two masters' degrees couldn't figure it out.
Thankfully the food was good and it created some good laughs, but that was one of the single most awkward Twilight Zone meals I've ever had.
Good times here - keep on rockin' in the free world.
they probably were ignoring you because servers hate young children.
Posted by: Brian T. Murphy | June 22, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Servers and circus animals...
Posted by: Matt Adair | June 25, 2007 at 10:55 AM