Finally! Shawarma with the Kids

When they were younger, every now and then we would have shawarmas with the kids at the little park behind town hall. We'd park the car, walk along main street to Lakeside Shawarma, and take our food back to a table by the river.

Look at all of the rock on the far side of the dam. The water is very low.

Somehow, we missed  this ritual last year, but we had this week to get together before school starts up again next week,

The circumstances weren't the best on a cool and windy day with the yellow jackets pestering us. In fact, I got stung really well by one of the blighters. But we made a memory with the kids, and those are getting harder to come by now that we don't see Dani and JJ as much.

We didn’t linger long and left to head to the Blue Spoon for desert, which we consumed while walking. I got the most scrumptious cookie ever! It was a biggish chocolate chip cookie with a bit of sea salt. Baked until perfectly crispy, it was delish. I am not usually a huge cookie guy, but this one was spectacular.

We wandered around main street for a few minutes, but since it was my cane hand that was stung, I put it in the car. I was doing fine without it, but the others still kept the outing short out of consideration. 

We only ventured into one store — Amethyst — where I saw a rather nice amethyst lamp for $229 and a very impressive chunk of amethyst crystal for $600. What a specimen!

It all took place in about and hour and a half or less, but we took one more photo before going our separate ways.

We'll see them again sometime on the weekend for a birthday celebration before school recommences next week. In the meantime, I leave you with one of Sue's collages.