Interesting Lunch

Jon and I went shopping at the local Farmer's Market today (I got $1 back for returning the peach box - yay!), and afterwards decided to try a new restaurant for lunch. We thought it looked interesting, and it's only about 5 minutes from our house. It's an Irish pub type place and looked fun. We walked inside and went to the hostess desk - where she stared at us. This seemed odd to me - normally a hostess greets you and seems to have a general idea of why you are there (table for 2?). Finally she asked if we were there for some "drinks and grub" - um yes, that's why we entered your restaurant at lunchtime. She asked where we wanted to sit - and knocked down my idea of eating outside - since she was sweating bullets(?) from having to serve outside - TMI! She seated us inside and got us some menus. Then our waitress showed up - she got our drink orders right and it all went downhill from there. Jon asked about one of the sides - wild mushrooms - and our waitress stared at him for a few seconds before mumbling some answer about them being marinated and then apologizing to him for staring. She did tell him that his sandwich came with fries though (which wasn't mentioned on the menu). Then she took my salad order I asked if they had French dressing. She said she thought so but would come out and tell me so I could pick a different dressing if they didn't.

Then the wait began...meanwhile our waitress would come out from the kitchen and seem to wander around the restaurant as if unsure what she was supposed to be doing. The manager acted in a similar manner - except he returned to the bar often for drinks and to keep tabs on the Broncos game.

We finally got our food 30 minutes after we placed our order - except it didn't seem quite right. My salad came with a vinagrette dressing - not the French I had asked for, Jon's sandwich had coleslaw but no fries, and we were given a cup of French Onion soup which neither of us ordered. When the waitress came back we questioned this - (was this even our order??). She said they didn't have French dressing, but the vinagrette was the best for my salad, she seemed surprised that we didn't order soup, and said she'd be right out with Jon's fries. We noticed the table next to us was also given coleslaw instead of fries, and apparantly she tried to pawn off the extra soup on them. After about 10 minutes - in which she went in and out of the kitchen repeatedly - each time looking at Jon and then returning to the kitchen - she brought out his fries. She then explained that it was a mistake on her part - fries do not come with the sandwich - but that she wouldn't charge us extra for them. (Um, I hope not!)

When she was clearing our plates, we asked for the check - which she had in her hand - and then she got distracted and walked away without giving it to us. (We also overheard that she put the unordered French onion soup on the tab of the table next to us.)

We think maybe the extra French onion soup came b/c I asked for French dressing? Who knows - Jon thinks she ate too many of the "wild" mushrooms or maybe was having drinks with the manager. I really liked the food, but I think next time we're going to eat in the bar - the bartender at least looked competent!

Updates

Okay, so I've been a big slacker for the past couple of months as far as posting. So, here's an update post as to what we've been up to for the past 2 months:
-Jen spent a week in Virginia/DC in mid-July for a national vet conference and some vacay time with grandma/mom/friends - lots of yummy seafood and shopping involved!
-Jon conseqently spent a week bach-ing it with the cats - (and everyone survived) =)
-Jon purchased and installed new blinds for the entire house - we love them (and they're not the vinyl kind so the cats can't push themselves through the blinds and break them!)
-Jen is now the only dr at the practice - hopefully this will change soon - I'd love to learn more form another vet!
-Jon finished his big work project on time (and even helped other people finish theirs on time too) - so fewer late nights for him (we both appreciate this!)
-Jon made a surprise trip down to Dallas to celebrate his dad's birthday with the family - he had a great time visiting - we certainly miss the more frequent visits with everyone now that we live in another state!
-Jen read the 7th Harry Potter book - Mom and I bought them the day the came out!
-we've continued to enjoy weekly produce from our CSA - Jen started making zucchini chocolate chip cookies to try to use it all up!
-we were both thrilled to hear that our friends (Jon's best man) had their first baby - congrats Alice and Kyle - we're so happy for you!!
-Jen talked Jon into purchasing 50 Colorado-grown peaches from the farmers market - and now have a freezer stocked with sliced peaches for pies and cobblers this winter
-we spent a weekend with friends at their family cabin down near Colorado Springs - we visited Pike's Peak (our first time above 14,000 feet!), Royal Gorge, Florrisant fossil beds (redwoods in Colorado!), and Garden of the Gods
-Jon installed a brand-new, fancy-schmancy faucet in our kitchen and put up a flagpole attachment in front of our house in time for Labor Day (does anyone else notice a trend in who does the home improvement - he's so handy! =)
-we spent a day up in Winter Park and Grand Lake (places we stayed at our honeymoon) - and ate dinner at one of the restaurants where we ate on our honeymoon
-we both bought ski/snow pants (no more skiing in jeans for Jon!)
-Ernie and Emma continue to enjoy watching birds and squirrels out the windows (and Emma continues her un-successful mission to escape the house through a window again!)
-we're looking forwards to heading up to Golden this weekend for a wedding (one of Jen's co-workers) and then on to Estes Park for the Highlands Festival and camping in the Rocky Mountain National Park