Asome!

For our 11 year anniversary, we celebrated as a family...at a bar :-). Ok, seriously we did, but let me explain. Not too far from us (relatively speaking) is a dueling piano bar called Bobby McKeys. Usually it is only open in the evenings and is 21 and over. On a previous visit when we were in the moving process, we stayed at the Gaylord just down from Bobby McKeys. As we were walking back from dinner, the doors were propped open, so we stopped to watch and listen. Scooter Button started dancing in the doorway. Mind you, it is normally 21 and older........ She might have been 3. The place wasn't  crowded at the time and they said something about here being cute, then we went on our way.

But back to our anniversary, and taking the kids to the bar, and the title of this post........

Once a month, on Saturday afternoon, Bobby's has a family day. See, you don't need to call the authorities on us. We found out about the family day on that initial trip when Button danced in the doorway, and had been wanting to go, but had just not made it yet. Then we saw that the family day was the same as our anniversary and decided it would be a great way to celebrate. It really was a lot of fun. For the admission price, their are the dueling piano players and a food buffet that included hot dogs, m & c, wings, salad, fruit, pizza... being gluten free we did not partake in most, but there was plenty to choose from, and we were going to dinner soon after also.

If you've never been to a dueling piano bar before, the idea is that you can request songs by writing them on napkins and then setting them on the piano. If you actually want your song played, you include cash with the napkin. The larger the number on that cash determines how quickly your song gets played. Comprende? Hunny and I wrote a few songs down, but had asked the girls what songs they might want to hear. The only song Button wanted was "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". Each time we asked, that was the only one she said. So, it went on the list. After all, it was family day. Punkin didn't really have one she wanted, but we put some of her dance songs on the list because we knew she'd enjoy that. Each took a napkin with cash and took the request on stage. It was so cute watching that throughout the day. Little kids going up, some would wait politely until they had finished playing and hand it to the pianist, followed by a polite thank you. While others looked like seasoned pros and would slap it on the piano. All very cute. We had a couple of our songs played....and wouldn't you know....Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was one of them!! Woo Hoo!  They did a conga line, had a frog and a bunny come out (not real ones but life size characters) that held a limbo stick for the kiddos. Plus had great music. It really was a lot of fun.

The other thing you could request was fore them to write one thing on the mirrors that were behind each of the pianos. On the napkin you wrote "write", then whatever you want and they would write it up there. No keep in mind that it was family day, and that some of the requests were (probably..hopefully) written by kids. There were only two written requests while we were there...one of which we have enjoyed ever since. Here goes "This place is Asome!!"  And that's what got written on the mirror. I'm sure it was suppose to say awesome, but it didn't. We have delighted in our new declaration of greatness pronounced long-a some. Button will randomly say "what's that thing we say instead if awesome?" Or we will say awesome, and Punkin will say "you mean Asome". I love their sense of humor and whit.

Our anniversary was followed by play in the Gaylord with a Peep doll that was purchased at the Peep store - yes there is a store filled with peeps, peep stuff, shirts, socks, onesies, dolls, plus Hot Tamales, and the fruit version of Hot Tamales that I can't think of their names. It's actually a fun store...but who knew? A Peep store. Then we went to dinner at Rosa Mexicana. We thought this was appropriate since we went to Mexico for our honeymoon. And they have the BEST table side guacamole, that makes people who didn't like guacamole convert to guacamole lovers. Yumm! Then all was followed by a car ride home inclusive with naps.

It was a great day! Or dare I say it was Asome!