First Saturday

Saturday started with the girl wrestling the cats. The cats were less game.

Then we hit a local cafe, the Art Shack Gallery Cafe, up for brunch, which is a little more than half a mile away. I hope when the weather cools a bit (ha, what am I saying? I mean when the weather cools a LOT), it'd be nice to walk to it. Side note: I'm totally fascinated by the store next door that just peddles Lacrosse stuff--who knew? Especially in this heat. It has somewhat limited hours but offers a phone number in case of a Lacrosse emergency--"help is only minutes away"--talk about dedicated service.

The menu and vibe of the Art Shack Gallery Cafe remind me of the laid back coffee shops in the East Village (NY), or San Francisco, or Portland, which is nice for a lazy Saturday brunch (too bad they're not open on Sundays) when you're not in a rush.

The girl loved the bowl of hot chocolate:

We enjoyed the Breakfast Bowl (with hash browns, cheese, and choice of breakfast meat-though I would argue that these were actually home fries, not hash browns), Pimpin' Grits (grits with cheese, pulled chicken, peppers, and tomatoes), and the Nutty Monkey Waffle-wich (waffles sandwiched with peanut butter and honey served with bananas):

The feedbag continued with getting pizza for dinner--but I stopped for gas first at the local gas place at the top of the hill (gotta love these gas prices--another plus for SoCar):

But when I tried using my card, it said to see the cashier. There was of course a line but it did give me a chance to peruse the DVD rack and see the variety of DVDs for sale which had a number of gospel DVDs like this one:

But then also offered a bunch in the theme of this one, Ultimate Chick Fights 3:

Which kind of questions the demand of the original DVD that prompted such sequels to be made and sold. Hmm, I don't remember seeing these in Irvine.

Anyhoo, we also treated ourselves to a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts:

Then I was shocked to realize we nearly finished them in less than an hour.

Wow, are we on our way to boosting South Carolina's position in the Fattest State standings? Yeesh. I need to put "joining a gym" higher on the to-do list.

Make that "going to a gym".