Author: The Jody

If you don’t take down your birdfeeder in the summer, hornets will build a massive colony in it. I also learned that if you push it aside with your hand because you are mowing the lawn, they will all find out to try to get medieval on your punk, lawnmowing ass.

Luckily I escaped unscathed. But you can bet your booty that birdfeeder isn’t long for this world.

I think having several beers by the fire made it seem like a much better idea to camp out. I did get some sleep, which is leaps and bounds better than last time when I didn’t have an air mattress.

It was pretty danged cold out last night – my nose and ears were freezing. Junior was trying to burrow into my side most of the night – I think for warmth. While sweet, it makes it hard to sleep. But I like knowing that I’m making cool memories for him.

It’s 6:35pm now and I’m ready for bed.

We were thinking of pitching our tent in my sister’s front yard tonight, but it looks kind of icky out right now. What’s up with that? I’m not sleeping out in the rain! So maybe we’ll just camp out in their living room for a while, make some s’mores on the stove. Or buy some of the cereal. According to the commercial, it’s a lot less work. *wink*

Okay, not a real review, in the sense that my taste buds have been dulled by years of eating Ragu spaghetti sauce and McDonald’s products.

But here is my 11 word review, which was written as I sat in the chair by the elephant:

“My God it’s loud in here. This steak is great! Volcano!”

Can you believe I’d never been to a Rainforest Cafe before? I think this says more about me avoiding the Burlington Mall than anything. See, I had a bad car experiences there, one when I was pregnant and scraped up the side of my Jetta because the curbs are twice the size of normal curbs (I lie not – please go and see for yourself) causing $1000 worth of damage. And then when Junior was about 7 or 8 months old, we were picking up glasses (the Lenscrafters kind) and some idiot punk kid jerk rear-ended us on that horribly scary ramp to Route 128 south that you need to get on to get on Route 3 North, that has idiots zooming in from the right at a full 60mph. The kid behind us didn’t bother to notice that the car in front of us had stopped, which meant we had stopped. Everyone was fine. The Jetta wasn’t. So you can see that if I have to pick a mall, why I go with Pheasant Lane in Nashua, or Solomon Pond in Marlboro.

Where was I going with that? Oh, right, so my sister’s family eats there a lot, but it was our first time. I thought the food was really good, if it did take a long time to get to us. I hear that’s par for the place. And the bill was in the stratosphere for 6 adults and 3 kids (over $200) but we had fun for Uncle Buff’s birthday, and that’s all that matters.

Rating: A for food, B- for speed of service, A for the waitstaff, D for prices. Oh, and D for the bathroom cleanliness, but to their credit, someone came in to clean them as we were leaving. But I’ve never seen more toilet paper on the floor in any bathroom anywhere. Could be due to the average patron age hovering near 5.

The ads I’m not supposed to talk about, over on the right? For two days now they’ve actually been non-you know what-related! They’ve actually reflected the current content! Mostly for hand sanitizers and Nissan Maximas, with back pain thrown in. (Oh, mine isn’t gone, but it is better. I’m pretty functional now.)