We had a few good laughs when out to dinner with some friends recently. We were out with a couple from our church who have two little girls - one is three years old and the other ten months old. Lucy loves playing with Amelie, the three-year-old. In fact, over the last few days she's just started saying, "Amenie" lately. (And no, that wasn't a typo, she's saying AmeNie instead of AmeLie. So cute!)
Anyway, last Friday we planned to go to dinner with Nick and Jamie and the kids. We go out with them a lot and usually find kid-friendly places in which to eat...a place that is somewhat loud and a place that we can get our food quickly because we know our kids won't last very long at a restaurant. We first decided to go to a new restaurant, FD Grillhouse. We looked at their menu online and it looked good and seemed like it might be a kid-friendly place. Ross and I got there a little before 6pm and saw that there were several people outside who were waiting to be seated. I put our name in and they said we'd have about a 30-minute wait. We figured that would not go over well with the kids and that it might be longer than 30 minutes and we'd have to wait longer to get our food, etc. Ross called Nick to tell him what we found and we all agreed that we should go somewhere else.
We ended up eating at The Grotto, a place we frequent. (I usually call it The Grosso because it's not my favorite place to eat, but it is growing on me.) Anyway, this is a kid-friendly place. It's not too fancy, somewhat loud, and we can get our food fairly quickly. We got our order in and got settled at our table and enjoyed our dinner and discussion. Towards the end of dinner, Nick and Jamie told us about their recent quick trip to St. Louis where they went to a Cardinal's baseball game. Before the game, they ate at a sports bar that was near the stadium. Nick and Jamie had eaten at this place years before and remember it having good food. But, since it was a "bar" they wondered if it would be okay for kids to eat there. Nick called ahead to ask this question and was glad he did. He found out that this place did not have a kids' menu and didn't even own a highchair! We had a good laugh about this! And joked about how every place should have a highchair for people like us. (On a side note, they said the restaurant was totally cool and made some kid-size chicken fingers just for them,)
Anyway, we had a good time laughing about the lack of a highchair and a kid's menu...and that they basically took two little kids to a bar.
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