Mexican Fiesta!

1.  Today was an incredibly busy day.  I got Grace out the door, got Lola to school, ran to Stew Leonard's to fill the propane tank and to do a bit of shopping.  Then ran home to put stuff away.  Found the "Call Before You Dig" guys checking out our dead trees that are to be cut down.  Then went to school for Lola's wonderful parent teacher conference.  Then went to meet a new psychiatrist and was thorougly impressed.  Then went home and vegged for a bit.  Nope, no exercise today.  Picked up Lola and came home for a while.  The handyman came and took care of putting the batteries back in the Airstream.  We are all ready for our first camping trip of the season!  Then went to pick Grace up and took her to the glasses store to have her glasses spruced up.  Then went home to relax for a few hours-and got to take a shower!

2.  Then we made smoothies and had some snacks before we left to go to Grace's concert.  They had a lovely Mexican Fiesta with a musical concert and art show.  It was really impessive!  The kids sang all the songs in Spanish and Grace's group danced the Mexican Hat Dance.

3.  Then we went to Cobb's Mill Inn for dinner.  This was our first experience.  When walking in the place smells very musty.  After all, it is old and on the water.  The place was empty at 7:15 on a Thursday night, which seemed very odd.  We were surprised not to see other families from the school there.  We got a table in the empty dining room with a great view of the waterfall.  There were cobwebs on the window treatments and the chandeliers.  The server we had was quite odd and not very good.  We found the food to be good, though.  The problem was that everything took too long to come out.  We thought this was strange given that there were no other customers.  The kids had the ubiquitous pasta and chicken fingers and french fries.  I had a salad and Rich had the special prix-fixe menu.  We were stunned that the price was $86 with tax and service.  We would go back, but just have to know that the kids' meals are $12.  Rich was charged for coffee when it was supposedly included in his meal.  He said it was very strong.  We were in a hurry to get home to get the kids to bed so he didn't dispute the charge.  If I were still in the restaurant I would have!  More people came in as we were winding our dinner down.  We saw a woman I know and I mentioned that we'd never been there before.  She shrugged and said "It's convenient."  So, I don't hear people raving, but they will go for convenience.  I do like to support a local business that gives back to the community.  I know the family that owns the restaurant donated a large sum for the building of our new firehouse.