TheBanyanTree: Lunch out with the girls

[NancyIee at aol.com]

We had lunch at the local  Olive Garden yesterday with a few friends and 
neighbors and decided we were our own club.  We are a rowdy, romping, stomping 
lot, and are going to call ourselves the "Red Hat Rednecks".  The place was 
jammed, so we ate out in their courtyard, which we had all to ourselves, it being 
hottish.  We wanted two tables pulled together, since we were crowded at the 
small table. The waiter tried hard, but could not bring another table over. He 
could not budge it, no matter how we cheered or cajooled, since it seemed to be 
bolted to the floor. The waiter finally let us use one of those small folding 
tables pulled close for our extra breadsticks and salad bowls.

We had our fill of their salad and soup and breadsticks lunch special , and  
after, walked, enmass, to Pier One, next door. CiCi bought a lantern and stand 
for our new lanai.  Now, THAT was a trick to get home, since we came together 
in one smallish car and everyone had purchases to put in the trunk.

  We then, still overfull of lunch, went to the nearby Goodwill, where we 
bought more stuff. I found an absolutely outrageous silk, multi-colored jacket 
which would be perfect for horse shows.  ANYTHING to catch the judges eye, you 
see. Another of our group found a blazing red jacket with black velvet collar.  
The best was a shirt in stars and stripes and sequins. I was so jealous. In 
showing miniature horses, the "handlers" all try to dress glitzy. It is hotter 
than blazes in Florida in the Summer, so you try to find light fabrics, and 
buy things at the Goodwill, so if you ruin it,  there's not a lot of expense 
wasted.

Everyone found something there, even jeans.  Out in the country, you can't 
have too many pairs of jeans.

It was a task getting everything stuffed in that tiny trunk and all our 
apres-lunch bodies jammed in that small car.

We make even a simple lunch out an adventure.


NancyLee