10/10/10 One strange day....

10/10/10 turned out to be an interesting day. We decided to drive up to Flagstaff Sunday afternoon to enjoy some cool weather and some family time for Kens Birthday. Things started out well. I booked a room at the Marriott on Priceline and saved 50% on our room ( a little plug for Priceline.com). We had a pleasant drive up, checked into our room and it was fab. I grabbed the laptop to look up some local eats. I found a Pizza place called New Jersey Pizza Co. that had great reviews. We decided we would take a drive up to Snow Bowl to see if the leaves were changing yet then grab a bite. The leaves were just barley starting to change but still it was beautiful!!

We got out and walked around, took a moment for a family photo op.

Then watched the sunset as we walked back to the car...

By the way, these photos were taken by my very talented daughter Cadence.

We were getting really hungry so we headed over to New Jersey Pizza Co. The outside looked like a dive but it had great reviews so we went in. The dining room was really small and we were the only customers.
The waiter was nice, he told us about how they use local ingredients and sometimes they run out of things. Then he told us that there were a few orders ahead of us for delivery and we might have a bit of a wait for our food. I had NO idea what this really meant. We decided on 2 pizzas, A white pizza with canalized onions for the girls and a meaty pizza for the boys. We also ordered some cheesy bread sticks. We sat around and visited, we were the only people in the place. We waited, and waited, and waited for our bread sticks. About 40 minutes later they arrived. The waiter brought them out with some ranch and informed us that they were out of red sauce and that he would go make some and bring it out. Well we all had one bread stick then decided to wait for the red sauce. After about 10 minutes we gave up, and it was good we did because it never came! Okay hold on...things get worse!

A family of four walk into the the restaurant. (This is not the beginning of a joke) I glance over at them, I'd say it's pretty normal to look at someone who is walking into a room when you have been the only one there for an hour. We go about our convo talking about how hungry we are. Emma starts to get a migraine. I am praying for her and trying to comfort her, I glance over at the other family and happen to make eye contact with the Mom, I smile. We go back to talking about how we have been waiting over 1 hour for our pizza. Laughing about possible reviews we might post on Yelp. Out of nowhere the mom from the other family loudly asks, "Is there a problem?!?" I look over at her and ask, "With what, the restaurant?" She says, "With us." I say "No, why?" She says, "You have been starring at us since we walked in!" Then she went on to say," Is it my shirt?" She was wearing a Texas State shirt. Ken said, "Hey we are tired and have been waiting for our food for over 1 hour, there is nothing wrong with you." Awkward!!! So for the rest of the night we were terrified to look anywhere but down at our food. Is this really strange behavior ,or is it just me? After this long wait you'd think the pizza would've been amazing. I will just say I have had better, for sure, I was not overly impressed.
To top things off Emma is feeling worse by the minute. We had plans to go to Wal Mart and get the kids something to swim in because they forgot their suits. Emma insisted that she still wanted to go. So we get in Walmart and are walking around and Emma begins throwing up in a cup she brought in with her. Lovely, people are running in the opposite direction. I'm thinking, Oh well, it is Walmart, home of "interesting" people and dirty diapers found in carts. Whats the big deal? Poor Emma, her night was pretty much ruined.

10/10/10 turned out to be a pretty strange day, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Our next day in Flag was much more promising. More on that later, for now I'm off to catch some zzzz's!