GOING ON AN ADVENTURE

Hello, friends!  The great clean-out continues, but at least I have a moment to write a post for you.  

I am amazed at how much I am able to throw out of this house.  I have not deep cleaned since I retired.  Oh, I did the normal everyday things, but going through each paper, each magazine, each item in boxes of decorations, etc. takes a long time.  I finally decided to do it but had no idea what a HUGE job it was.  It will take me several months to go through everything.  But by then I hope to have downsized a lot and hopefully my house will be looking a lot better.  Salvation Army is going to know me by name, I've been dropping off so many things.  How do we all accumulate so much STUFF?

But let me tell you about last Sunday.  Joe had to go to the Credit Union.  There are only two places nearby where he can use the ATM.  One is the Philadelphia Navy Yard and the other is in Cherry Hill, NJ.  We left after church and headed to the Navy Yard.  Even though it is in Philadelphia, the one in New Jersey is closer.  But I didn't want to pay the toll to go across the bridge.  I wasn't sure where I needed to get off of I-95 to go to the Yard so I had my GPS on and found it just fine.

As we were pulling in, a Security Guard stopped us and asked where we were going.  Oh the memories that popped into my head from when I used to work for the Navy.  It has been a long time since I drove onto a base.  Joe told him that he wanted to use the ATM and started to pull out his military ID.  But the guard stopped him and told us that the ATM was broken.  We needed to pull in, make a U-turn and leave.  So that's just what we did.

We got back onto I-95 heading for home.  I said, "Well, I guess we're going to Jersey."  We can get onto the bridge right from the highway.  Joe reset the GPS for the new address because we had no idea where we were going.

It was a little confusing, but we ended up finding it without any problem.  When he was finished we both said how hungry we were.  There was a Red Robin Diner right next door.  Neither of us had ever been there, so we decided to try it out.

It was very cute, super clean, and the wait staff was wonderfully attentive.  We ordered drinks and then looked at the menu.  I didn't want a burger and that's mostly what they had.  But then I saw the fish and chips and ordered that.

One of the cool things is their bottomless sides.  We had a choice of steak fries, broccoli or salad.  For another $1.50 we could have sweet potato fries or zucchini fries.  Joe wanted the sweet potato but they were out.  Of course since I was having fish and chips I wanted the chips.  But it was nice to know I had some options.  The waitress brought out a small portion of fries for us to eat as we waited for our food.  That was nice because we were very hungry.

The food was good, but I thought my fish were very greasy.  Now I don't mind greasy food, but this had the grease dripping from it.  Hmm.  It tasted good though.

Joe finished his burger, but I brought two pieces of fish (there were four), the tartar sauce and some of the fries home.  I had them the next day and they weren't greasy at all.  Hmm again.

We signed up for the discount club and may go back there but we haven't decided yet.  I'm glad we went, though, and checked it out.

Hope you are having something good to eat today.
See you later.

Kathy