Step-Mother's Day

I had my first Step-Mother's Day yesterday. How fun!
Trace and Jessica took me out to brunch and bought me a gift certificate for a massage.
We went to brunch at The Palace in Durango. it's cute nice resturant next to the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Train Depot.





We got there at 11:30 and we didn't have a reservation so they sat us in the bar area, which was just as nice as the rest of the place. They were packed. We ordered a baked brie as an appetizer, with honey and almond over the baked brie and a fresh fruit and toasted baguette slices. Yum! It's a good thing we did because we ate the whole thing before they even took our order... Jessica had an iced tea, I had a mimosa, and Trace had a crown and coke. it was noon by then :) and we gave our orders and we waited... then we had another round of drinks and we waited... 12:45 by the time our food was served...yikes. it was good. i had sweet crepes with an orange cream filling and blackberry syrup. good thing we weren't in a hurry.


In fact it was really nice to just hang out and relax. the place was full and the weather was great so there was a lot of good people watching to be had. in fact as we were finishing our meal. a couple outside our window on the patio proved to be very entertaining. They had two little boys, maybe 4 & 6. They're food came out not long after us and we had already been watching and noticing how good those boys were. to sit there for an hour and wait for food. they had 2 appetizers and plenty of crayons so mom and dad must have known what to expect. The little boy ordered chicken nuggets and was happy as a clam. the older boy ordered french toast and it was very frenchy. it was a diagonally sliced piece of very narrow french bread and was pretty toasty. we knew that already because Jessica ordered the same thing. it was good but the crust was so tough she asked for a steak knife. so this little boy gets his plate and his eyes grow 3 inches and his face twists a little wondering what the heck they brought him... but mom convinces him to give it a shot and we watch this little boy work the heck out of it with a butter knife. Good job kid! Then mom and dad both send their food back because it's cold and Jessica can see them talking about it. Trace and i had to turn to watch them so she had the best view. They get their food back, pretty quickly actually, and everyone gets to eating. Then the little one decides he's done and throws his chicken nugget across the table and almost smacks the dude sitting next to them. Mom wasn't pleased. by then it was 1:30 and we've finally paid our bill and head out. it was fun and tasty... but next time we'll probably go to Denny's. :)