Hippie Graffiti in Athens, Ohio

I recently had occasion to be in Nelsonville, Ohio for work. There aren't a lot of restaurants in Nelsonville, so we decided to head to the nearby campus of Ohio University for lunch. We went to Casa Cantina and started out with a variety of salsa, chips, and margaritas.

That was followed by a shredded pork and farmer's cheese quesadilla.



Next up was a trip to the lady's room. I was amused by the graffiti in the stalls. Everyone knows that Athens is full of hippies, so it makes sense that there would a lot of flower-child ramblings scrawled on the walls.



Deep thoughts....



Finally! Graffiti that speaks to my soul. Who doesn't love Mark Paul Gossler's character, Zach Morris, from Saved By The Bell?

Odds and Ends

A new Chinese restaurant opened near our house recently. It was previously a Chinese restaurant - but it had been fined (and closed) many times for health code violations. Knowing that it had new owners, I decided to give it a try. The egg roll was clearly handrolled and stuffed with a lot of ground pork and just enough cabbage. I ordered Szechuan chicken but they gave me Hunan chicken... No big deal because the dish that they gave me was really good.

Here is Connor at his first trip to Cold Stone Creamery. He ordered the medium size with mint ice cream, chocolate chips, and crunch bars mixed in... All inside a chocolate dipped waffle cone. He finished about 25% of the ice cream and 0% of the cone.

An attempt to heal strep throat with Mexican food

This was my first meal of real food after being stricken with the evil, evil strep throat. I had enchiladas and refried beans because they are... soft. I also had a margarita. My thought was that it might cauterize the open sores covering my tonsils. And this worked... for about 15 minutes and then the pain came right back.





My mom had a chorizo and chicken quesadilla. I've this before (we were at Fiesta Mariachi) and it's awesome.




Ian had the chicken nuggets. He hated them. The menu listed "chicken fingers" but they actually served chicken nuggets. Ian took one bite of each nugget just to prove to me that each one was "disgusting".

Strep Throat

This is my mouth. Those are my tonsils, infected with strep throat. Strep throat sucks. It can give you a fever of 103 degrees, a migraine headache, and make you cry like a baby from pain.

I would post a bunch of pictures of what I ate while I was down with strep, but it would just be photos of popsicles and campbell's chicken noodle soup.

Easter

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Connor and I ate at Donato's last week. He had a Big Don Sub. He reported that it was "uh, like... it's good or whatever. I guess it's okay." He only ate half of it.

We also ordered a pizza. This pizza photographed really well. It looks like it should be tasty. It actually looks like it was ordered from a mom & pop type of pizza place. This is what makes Donato's pizza so deceptive. It looks like it comes from an independent place but it tastes like chain restaurant pizza. It's okay but not great. Connor commented, after one bite, "uh, yeah. I don't like this very much. It looked good but it doesn't taste good."

Henry David!

This little guy is named Henry David and he's my nephew! He was born to my sister and her husband on March 27th, and weighed in at 8 pounds and 14 ounces. His favorite food is MILK!

Really, Lucy? Really?

While I dropped the kids off at school on Wednesday, Lucy ate at least 1/4 of a tub of margarine that was left on the counter. She proceeded to vomit the margarine throughout the house for the remainder of the day.

While I dropped the kids off at school on Thursday, Lucy grabbed a container of chocolate frosting out of the pantry, chewed it open, and ate most of the contents. I think that Shadow was in on this one too. He had a guilty look on his face.