Sunday Brunch

Sunday morning I had grand plans to wake up no matter what condition I was in and head out to see some long lost friends (aka people I haven’t had the chance to see since school was up and running). Mike calls into my room and says Matt is on the phone (wait…wasn’t he actually at my house last night?) and wants to know if I’m still going. After an affirmative, Mike tells me that they are meeting at the Lone Star in Barrhaven.

Hmm… that’s strange. All week long, the meeting spot was Broadways. Ah well…maybe they couldn’t get a reservation so they changed the place. No problem. I hop out of bed, have a shower and start surfing the net for Lone Star in Barrhaven.

Well, that’s where I hit my snag. I couldn’t find it anywhere! Perhaps it was new? Perhaps it was in another district instead of Barrhaven? I spent 30 minutes online trying to find this place. Finally, when frustration (and the clock) finally set in, I tried to track down someone’s phone number which was a pain on its own. I guess I don’t have my phone list up to date! I finally got in touch with Trish who could give me Matt’s cellphone number.

“Hello, Matt, where the heck is Lone Star in Barrhaven?” – Me.
“What? We’re at Broadways.” – Matt.

Groan. All that time wasted.

I get in the car, drop Vero off and pick up Philipp and Carrie to head out to Barrhaven. Everyone is meeting at 11:30 and I think by this point it is already 11:50. No worries, we’ll make it.

After meandering through Barrhaven (which I’ve never been to the downtown area before), we find the street where Broadways is supposedly located but realize that
A) There really aren’t any visible addresses as it’s just a bunch of mini-mall shopping block complexes
B) There are a lot of them.

We drive through the majority of them to see if we can find Broadways. We never saw a sign for it on the giant side on the side of the road (you know the signs I’m talking about) but we figured we may miss it so we drove through 10 blocks looking for it.

By 12:30 we gave up as we hit the last block and I noticed it was nothing but straight road from that point on heading west. We turned around and decided to go to Kelseys. But then Philipp sees Broadways! Argh. By this point we agree that we don’t want to show up an hour later when people are ready to leave and make them feel like they will have to stay. So that’s the story of Sunday Brunch for those wondering where I ended up.

The rest of the day was a beaut with a decent meal at Kelseys, a traipse around Westboro, and some supper over at Carrie’s. I also got to chat it up with Alex and Holly who just got back from Jamaica which they said was fab. Pictures and stories were told and it was cool to hear how great it was as I am heading down south in January for Vero’s sister’s wedding.