Today is Columbus Day and inexplicably, my company considers it a holiday and so I am off. However, there is a trade show that takes place today and I rented a booth so even though I should be off, I will be working instead. 11:45 – 2:13 and then 5:00 – 7:00.
This will be a good for my territory and it should mean more opportunity. Opportunity is a great thing thus I don’t mind not having the day off if it means more money in my pocket down the line.
Andrea came over on Saturday. It was her 30th birthday. Rob, Caren and Steve and I took her out. We went to what was once known as Gillian’s but the name has been changed to Dave and Buster’s. The place used to be a really fun joint. You could play pool or bowl or sit at a Hibachi table. I remember it was quite a popular place. We went in there Saturday night and the place looked worn down and there were quite a few dangerous looking people lurking around. They took forever to seat us even though there were tons of empty tables. Once we were seated, no one came to greet us or get our drink order. After 20 minutes, we decided to leave. We then went to Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse (Is it me or does the name of this restaurant sound like a horrible racial slur?). Andrea winced when we walked in to see tons of animal heads hanging from the walls. I told everyone we couldn’t eat here since Andrea, the birthday girl, is a vegetarian. We left and went to On The Border which is the place Rob and I met all those many months ago. We were told it would be about an hour to an hour and half before we would be seated because we have 5 people and it’s tough finding a 5 top table. At this point we were starving and tired and uninterested in waiting for what would essentially be beans, cheese and rice. Rob decided we would go back to the Donnavilla and order pizza. It was a good suggestion. The pizza hit the spot and I was grateful to be away from those restaurants. So what did I learn from this experience. Northeast Philly is really getting rundown, aways have a second plan in place and never go back to Dave and Buster’s. Andrea didn’t seem to mind all the hoopla. It was her second to last night in the US. Today she leaves for Berlin. It was so nice seeing her again especially since I thought she had disappeared forever.
Had the same experience at the fake Dave and Busters (the real one being on Delaware Ave) a couple of weeks ago. We waited forever for food, and several of our orders were fouled up. If you asked for dressing on the side, you got tons of dressing on the salad and dressing on the side. You don’t want onions? Tough – we’ve got 3 tons of onions and they’re going on everything. They even botched the drink orders.
Suffice it to say that the games weren’t very good either. I’d been to better arcades in Ocean City, NJ in the mid 80s.
There are still a lot of decent places in the burbs tho’. Try the Iron Hill Brewery on 309, Tex Mex in North Wales, or anything in Collegeville or Skippack. And Northeast Philly will always have Chickie and Pete’s!
Just don’t go to the ATM early in the morning…
Yeah, anything in Collegeville or Skippack–come out here! 😉
If you want to plan a vacation, the Bugaboos are a mountain range in British Columbia. I think they are adjecent to the Purcell range. The mountains in B.C. can be absolutely incredible. We hiked around the Canadian Rockies last summer for the 3rd year now. Wow.