Last Thursday we went to the “Golden Corral”, what we affectionately call an “all-you-can-eat Stuffet”. It was both a late celebration of our arrival in Florida and a treat because most of us haven’t been in a restaurant in more than a year, and Truett never has!
We decided to get there early, around 4:00 PM, to be in between the lunch and supper rushes. We started getting ready at around 3 and got there at around 5, getting there right before the supper crowd. So, the timing wasn’t exactly precise, but, if we pretend we were trying to get there at 6, then we were delightfully early. Or we could just say that we were “fashionably late”. Either way, we did get there eventually.
Upon our arrival, we quickly found out that Nova had forgotten her shoes. Oops. Dad took all of us kids into the restaurant (Nova got a piggyback) and Mom ran into a nearby store to purchase a lovely pair of minnie-mouse flip flops. Lovely might be a little sarcastic in this sentence, but Nova truly loves them, so from her point of view it’s quite true. Then Mom rejoined us.
During our time, nothing too unusual happened. Our waiter tripped over Truett, (who was busy waving at everyone in sight) but made a heroic recovery and no one was hurt! I spilled a full glass of root beer on myself, significantly soaking my pants, which, being Aladdin-style pants, actually hold a surprising amount of liquid! I just wanted to see if root beer is a good all-natural perfume, but I soon realized there are two rather consequential flaws with this idea. The first being the fact that root beer doesn’t really smell after being dumped all over clothing, the second being that root beer is quite far from being all natural, or even partially so. So, my idea really just fell apart there.
Anyway! After supper, all of us feeling quite full, a couple of us feeling quite sick and me in particular feeling quite wet, we climbed into the van and drove to the park! Unfortunately, it was beginning to rain, so we quickly drove away from the park. We decided to go the nearby library for a couple minutes before it closed. As we passed the park, we saw some unique-looking basketball nets, which so impressed us that we spent the next ten minutes singing a song about them. The lyrics were as follows: “You can slide down the back, you can slide down the back, you can slide down the back of the basketball net.” It just went over and over again, getting better and better until it could be no better. Then it got just a little bit better. I think it was sort of Country/Western mixed with Gospel Choir.
We got to the library where Mom and Dad ran in, got a library card, checked out a couple bagfulls of books and ran back out.
Then, the rain having passed, we drove back to the park. It was a really nice park, with lots of climby things, spinny things, slidey things, swingy things and some other things too! We had a lot of fun. After half an hour or so, we packed into the van and drove home. And that, my dear friends, is the glorious chronicle of the Golden Corral. I hope you enjoyed this article and fear not, there are more to come! 🙂
