What I Did On My Vacation Part 2.....Not Quite as Long as Part 1

Last we left you dear readers, we had caught a matinee(movie! people, not THAT kind of matinee!!), spent like a drunken sailor on shore leave at a liquor store and ingested 'psketti and balls down in Ocean City MD.

Oh, here is a picture I forgot to share on the last post from our liquor store adventure.
This photo is dedicated to Mark......

I actually found my favorite Sangria in box form in DE.  This holds the equivalent of 2 large bottles and half the price.
Don't say Sluggy doesn't do her part to promote foreign trade!

Onward to Wednesday or Day Three of our Beach Vacation.
While I slept in, Hubs was up to see the sun rise, take a morning walk on the Boardwalk and by the time I arose for my morning ablutions, he had returned bearing coffee(for him)and donuts(for us).  No Fractured Prune donuts this trip, just your plain old everyday Dunkin Donuts variety ones.  I augmented my repast with yogurt and fruit.

We decided to venture out to Snow Hill Maryland, toward the southern end of Wocester County, on Wednesday.  Snow Hill is a small quaint town halfway between the OC area and Pocomoke City MD(which lies near the VA line).
We had visited Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum a few years ago, as well as the Julia A. Purnell Museum in Snow Hill.
The Purnell had a special exhibit of Negro League & Early Integrated Professional Baseball memorabilia that Hubs was interested in seeing so we stopped in for that.
While perusing the collection, Hubs spotted one of these baseball cards....

 If you can tell me why this card is so valuable, you are a Baseball Nerd! ;-)

Here is Hubs wishing he could be 10 years old again and do nothing but think about baseball all summer long.....

They also had their yearly Needlework Arts Competition going on at The Purnell.  Every year they have an art show there of local artists and hobbyists in the Needle Arts.  The visitors to the Museum get to cast votes for this competition.  Having been a semi-professional costume designer in my previous life, as well as a a longtime crafter, sewer, crocheter, crewel worker and needlepoint worker(miserable rug hooker, cross stitcher and quilter too), I have great interest in seeing this show.
As for our ballots.....it's funny that even though Hubs and I have been "together" since 1978, we hardly ever pick the same entries in each category for this Needlework Arts Show.  Maybe it's because he comes to this as a mostly unknowledgeable viewer, whereas my eye perceives details and filters that through a brain awash in what skills need to be mastered to achieve said details.
Hmmmm.....
I would be curious to know which entries actually win in this show.  Being transit through the area, we never get the pleasure of seeing how our votes stack up with the locals and other tourists who pass through the area on these contests.

And we ALWAYS miss the big Birthday Party the Museum holds for Julia Purnell each October, because we either come the week after or the week before they hold it on Oct. 27th.  This year it was the day after we left the area so no free Birthday Cake for us......sniff.....sniff.....
But Happy 169th Birthday Julia Purnell!

Missing that cake didn't stop me from posing in front of the building for a photo or two.....and yes, a nice big WIDE SHOT is always better.....lol

And here I am doing my Carol Merrill Spokes Model pose, showing off Door #2.....or was this Curtain #3?.....

After a brief stop in the gift shop where we picked up a couple of books, because you KNOW all museums, no matter how small, must have a gift shop, we set out back to OC for a late lunch.

And we found that this place had opened in West OC.....

Hubs and I have yet to eat at one of these places as they are not up here in our part of PA.   So we gave it a shot for lunch.
For atmosphere I'd give them a D.....the whole industrial-look and bare plywood doesn't enhance my dining experience.
For taste I'd give them a C+......while you KNOW this is a healthier choice than Taco Bell or other Mexican-type restaurants, it borders on the bland(if you don't like lots of "heat" in your food).
I know it's the "healthier" way to do Mexican, but while I don't need fats and deep frying of my burrito, I still want sauce and to have it slathered in CHEESE.
And trying to eat a Burrito the size of a premature baby with ones hands might do it for some people, I'd prefer a plate and a knife and fork please and not a foil type paper and a plastic basket.

For someone with no experience with Chipotle's type of service, it wasn't very user friendly.
The atmosphere was minimalist and "cold" as well.
The menu was very limited.  While this is good for the company to be able to keep freshness up and costs down, I didn't think the prices were that great.  Maybe being in this tourist area where EVERY EATING OPTION is overpriced didn't give me the best representation of their business model on price.

The one thing I didn't care for at all?
The HUGE signage overhead at the counter/ordering place/where your food was put together.  The signs about options was needed but really, do they need to post all the caloric information in such great detail and so largely?
I felt the need to get out a calculator and a scale and obsess over every morsel of food the burrito jockey employee was ladling onto my tortilla.
Will the brown rice or the pinto beans put my carb calories over or should I do both and leave off the guac?  Better get a pen out and do the math....
I started feeling like a neurotic teenage girl worrying over whether I should binge and purge or just nibble on a corner of my burrito and say I was just too full to finish.

Back at the room, we did a little boardwalking again......and then I sat a spell......my readers will be relieved to hear that there is full integration and diversity on the boardwalk in OC.  The benches of all colors live side-by-side in harmony.
Now let's all sing "Ebony & Ivory" one time with gusto....

While I sat Hubs went on the beach and down to the water to freeze his toes off.
Along with no feeling in his feet, he also bought back a souvenir.....

(Behind the shell is Not our hotel but the one next door.)

Wednesday night we made a quick trip to 7-11 for this.....

Having grown up in the Tidewater VA area, I was given to enjoying a Slurpee on hot Summer nights.  There is a dearth of 7-11 stores where I have lived for the last 28 years.  So whenever we got to OC, I indulge in a Slurpee......or 5......no really, just 1.....




We had restaurant leftovers and frozen pizza with adult beverages up in the room.
Adult Beverages again??!!   Seems to be a recurring theme this trip, doesn't it? lol

Wednesday was the 1st Game of the World Series so there was no going out for us that evening.
While hubs watched the game I read one of my new books.

Thursday was our last full day in Ocean City.  We still had 2 Restaurant dotcom certificates to use.  We also had a mission to accomplish before leaving OC for home but more on that in a moment.

After breakfast in the room(and no, there was no "hair of the dog" involved), I went out onto the balcony for some relaxation before commencing our day.
Our room/balcony was on the 8th floor and directly looking out over one of the 2 outdoor pools at the hotel.  The pool we overlooked was still full of water from the Summer Season.  After looking down into the pool for about 5 minutes I finally noticed something.....something that was not there the day before.
See if you can spot what I saw.....

I will add that a large group of middle aged men without their wives and significant others, a golfing junket, arrived at our hotel on Wednesday.  I will add that while the World Series viewing was going on in our room that evening, the boardwalk bar to the right of our hotel was filled with loud drunk guys, one of which decided to scream, "Woooo! I'm drunk!! I'm f'ing drunk!" over and over again while parading up the Boardwalk sometime around 1-2 am.
The weather that week in OC was such that we kept our balcony door open with the screen across every night we were there so we could be lulled to sleep by the gently crashing waves.  I fell asleep finally after Mr. Drunken Ass finished his serenade but totally missed out on the noise and excitement of the Aging Frat Boys who scaled the padlocked pool area and pushed 8 glass topped patio tables and 1 lounge chair into the pool beneath our room.


After readying ourselves for the day, we had some more boardwalk strolling time. 
Then it was off on our mission.....to find Daughter some tie-dyed apparel at the various Beach Stores/Souvenir Shops.
OC has about 1 Beach Store every half a block.....for miles and miles.....as far as the eye can see.
Each is filled to the brim with all that crap people find necessary to waste their money on.  I won't go into details but you know what I mean.
There are a few useful items but most of it?.....Crap.  And all of it overpriced.....unless you go off season when they start clearancing much of it.
We had a specific mission--find a couple of tie-dye t-shirts and a hoodie.  A tie-dyed hoodie, without a zipper.....in "nice" colors, bright and not muddy.....and in her size.  And my requirement?....costing under $20 but not made from crappy fabric.
Oy!

The t-shirts were found fairly readily but the hoodie?.....oy again!
I lost count after about the 6th store.  We just drove up the main drag and hit every t-shirt/souvenir store we came to.  Some had no tie-dyed hoodies.....some had just zippered hoodies.....some didn't have the size needed......some were ugly.......some were too expensive.......and many were a combination of these conditions.
But we finally hit pay dirt and it was 25% off which made me happy.

Having worked up an appetite, we went for lunch.
Chinese food?
Yes please......

Even Chinese food in OC is expensive.  Ok, so I didn't have to get the Peking Duck.  In my defense it was only half of a very smallish duck.
This was a very nice restaurant.  Not some place we would have chosen though if I didn't have a discount certificate.  It was a tad pricey for a casual lunch(I think they do a much larger weekend and evening business), so the dining room on Thursday was empty except for us.
 It had a nice atmosphere, an attentive waiter(with little understanding of English but he and we were very patient with each other), an owner back in the kitchen who seemed meticulous about every detail of the food and it showed in how everything tasted!

When I took my cup of tea over to the window to snap of photo of their sign with my tea(trying to continue my photographic theme I had going in my pictures), I spilled tea all over the booth seating, so no tea cup in this photo I took after cleaning up after that silly elderly Caucasian women pouring tea all over the restaurant.....

While we were over in that part of OC, we had another urgent need to fulfill.
The yearly purchase of FRUITCAKE.......not any old fruit"best use is as a doorstop"cake......the BEST Fruitcake outside of your maiden Aunt Gertie's liquor soaked cake.......

Yo, Yo....Represent!
Claxton's in da' house!
We gonna party, like it's ya birfday.....

Yes people, THIS fruitcake is edible!  Very sweet and fruity and not dry and "cakey".

But why pay through the nose online to have it delivered from Georgia?
Stroll down to your Rose's store and pick up a pound for $3.75.
One year we didn't go to OC and get fruitcake but I still got very lucky here at home.  We were in the local Price Chopper grocery store a few days before Christmas and they had a load of Claxton Fruitcakes on clearance for $1.99 each.
Yes, we were eating fruitcake that year well into October of the following year. lol

One item we did NOT acquire on this year's trip was FUDGE.  Candy Kitchen fudge is a longstanding tradition here at Chez Sluggy.  Every Fall they put their fudge on sale for 50% off in an effort to reduce inventory on perishable goods.
Great time to buy pretty good fudge, right?
Well this year, the Fudge was NOT such a great deal......not a good enough deal to get me to part ways with my money!
Buy 2 lbs., Get 1 lb. free.
Nope....the kids(and I)can live without fudge this year.  Inflation once again ruining my vacation fun....

Afterwards we hit up Dumpster's one more time for this.....

Chocolate chip coconut ice cream?
Yes, please.


After some "down time" Thursday afternoon and a nap, we ventured back out to Delaware to use our last restaurant certificate at the Hawaiian Crab Bar & Grill.

The place was a bar with some dining tables in the bar room.  We walked into the place to discover it was Bingo Night and the evening's festivities had already begun.
Oh goody!
Everyone....and I mean everyone was playing Bingo and drinking.....well, except for the 10 yr old boy at the table next to ours, the drinking part that is.
Hubs had a couple of beers with his dinner and I drank iced tea only.

There was a large group of Senior Citizen couples on the other side of us.   The World Series game was on the bar tv and these couples were dressed up, head to toe in matching/co-ordinating sports wear.
Not sports wear as in, "here is this season's latest sports wear fashions you'll be seeing in the resorts and on cruise ships everywhere"......more like, "I'll wear my Phillies red cap, red Phillies baseball shirt, my Phillies belt buckle and or String tie, and my royal blue sansa-belt slacks because they, you know, "go" with the ensemble."  The wife was in matching Phillies gear and red capri pants, and had a Phillies lanyard/glass holder and Phillies earrings to complete her look.
There were 2 Baltimore Orioles couples(decked out in black and orange and oh so fitting into a Halloween theme as well as the baseball one) with the "Phanatics" couple.  There were a few baseball fans as well seated at the bar, though they had not put in the effort that these elderly couples had in their bar wearing finery.

Think this but sports teams.....

So sad I didn't take the camera there because no amount of describing these people does justice to it.

And did I mention that everyone was drinking yet?

We ordered in between very quickly called games of bingo(Hubs had trouble keeping up.....with the bingo, that is).  It was mostly bar type food but they had some seafood so we both ordered crab soup and the crab cake sandwich and fries.  The soup was great, the sandwich not so much.  Not cooked right and I could tell it had been frozen.  There was too much bread and not enough crab flavor.  But it was filling and didn't make me sick so I'll settle for that.

And about an hour in, someone at the bar "had words" over something overheard from a fellow bar patron.  I don't know if it had something to do with Bingo cheating or just feeling that the last game was rigged, but suddenly aspersions were being cast and Pittsburgh Steelers fans were being maligned and I thought we'd see heads being knocked together shortly.

Oh and the drinking continued....

Then the Bingo caller got a tad risque with comments along with the numbers being drawn.
Much laughter ensued.

Then the Bar owner/caller enlisted the 10 yr old boy(remember him at the next table? with many of his female relatives and I ASSUME one of which was his mother)to Call the numbers and HE began making comments like he had heard the adult make.
Of course this kid had no clue about the double entenders he was throwing about and the drunken crowd roared even harder with laughter hearing this kid deliver the Caller's lines.
It became too too uncomfortable for us to hear(I'd call it child abuse), so we made a hasty exit before the Bingo portion of the evening's "entertainment" was over.
Yikes.
A few adult beverages back at the room to get the taste of the evening out of my mouth.

Friday's weather was still great, though Sandy was about to advance up the coast.  The  beach entrance in front of our hotel had been blocked off by Friday morning and the water was looking a tad angry and starting to churn up.

We left town fairly early so we didn't hit Philly around rush hour and didn't have to hurry our trip home to avoid that scenario.
I got a good shot of one of the WW2 observation towers and they also have a big sign up this year on their efforts to Restore a Tower.  Check out the website if this is a cause you think you'd like to get behind.

Then it was over the bridge up Rte. 1 and back to PA and home.

And then 3 days later Hurricane or SuperStorm Sandy came ashore along the Eastern Seaboard.  While OC didn't score a direct hit, the flooding on the bay side and along the southern end of the city was bad.

Here are my "diversity benches" on Monday.....

See the bench below?  These things weigh 300lbs. and are bolted down to the boardwalk.  They got tossed around.....

The boardwalk, while it didn't sustain much damage, there was alot of debris and ground floor flooding of hotels.  From the West OC bridge to 17th St. was closed down.  Our hotel was in that stretch of beachfront.

The Ocean City pier was greatly affected by Sandy.....

The bayside homes were swamped.....

And this landmark, Layton's, was underwater.  This is a block away from our hotel on the main drag through OC........I think our hotel was on a bit higher ground but still, I wonder how it fared......

And then I found this phot on Facebook of our hotel during the storm.
This is the back entrance to the hotel from the beach.
The pool full of patio tables in to the right of the fencing on the right side of this picture.....

So sad for everyone who lost anyone or anything in this storm.  Join the effort to help those affected if you can.

Sandy kind of put a damper on our trip after the fact.
I hope y'all enjoyed the Trip.
And next year, I'll try not to be such a downer at the end.  8-(

Sluggy

What I Did On My Vacation Part 1....Sort of Long

We spent the Week of Oct. 21st down at the beach in Ocean City, MD.
You may have noticed that I didn't post as much that week and that the posts that did go up went live at weird times and not on my usual schedule.

The reason being that I don't have a laptop and the only internet access I had was via the desktop computer in the hotel's lobby.  I stayed up late the night before we left and wrote a week's worth of blog posts and scheduled them to launch at set times.
Or at least I "thought" I had scheduled them.  8-(

I get a C- on that whole scheduling thing I guess.
I did jump online at the hotel when I could get a moment here and there to manually launch and/or approve comments.
That's quite the accomplishment when you have a disapproving husband glaring at you for taking a few minutes away from HIS vacation.
But I am digressing here, as usual......

The point is I was formulating how to structure my "What I Did On My Beach Vacation" post while sitting on the balcony that week enjoying adult beverages, as well as while driving home on Friday, October 26th.
Because, though you may not believe it,  the rambling stuff that I post doesn't just tumble out of my brain onto the page.  I do put some forethought and try to structure my writing so that it doesn't need propping up by 2 x 4s and lots of nails and duct tape.  At least not massive amounts that show on the outside.   The inside of my writing?  It resembles the inside of a parade float.....lots of paper mache slopped everywhere and exposed chicken wire.....not so purty. ;-)

So I finally figured out what to talk about and how to word it about November 1st.
And here is how it goes.....

Y'all saw my little teaser photo earlier in the week.....

And no, it took me more than 1 day to empty all those bottles.8-P

Hubs and I spent most of our time on vacation just kicking back, tipping back(bottles) and eating out, with a little shopping on the side.

We have had miserable experiences eating out in Ocean City over the years.  The places that sound appealing are always closed for the Season by the time we get there in the Fall.  The local(non-chain) type places have only disappointed us, either by being GROSSLY overpriced(even for a tourist area!)or the food being just plain.....well....GROSS!lol
And sometimes it was both.  (La Hacienda anyone!?  Seriously, 99.9% of commercial kitchens in the USA are FILLED with workers who called their grandmother "abuela" and this Mexican Restaurant apparently has only ethnically Caucasian cooks who serve Mexican food so bad that THEY should be deported! )

Hubs and I thought we'd take another crack at eating local again this trip(Subway and hot dogs at the 7-11 was getting tiring).  I jumped on Restaurant.com and bought 3 certificates for the trip before we left, so I knew we'd venture out into unknown territory for at least that many meals.

We stopped on the way down in Rehobeth, Delaware to do some outlet shopping.  Every year we hit the Vans, Converse and Jumiez Outlets to restock 2 of the kids on clothes & shoes that they like from these places.  You know the only way I'm buying this name brand/designer stuff is with a deep discount at an outlet.  The credit cards were smoking from use by the time we left Rehobeth!lol

We got in early in the evening to our hotel and after some down time we headed out for dinner.  The destination was Dumser's, an Ocean City Landmark......

You probably can't see hubs standing under that sign, huh?  Trust me, he is. lol

* A little side ramble here.*

I have a habit of renaming things and places.....so that it sounds almost the same as the actual name for something.
It was my mother's habit--you see? I'm turning into my mom!lol
She would get a mental block about a word or a phrase and call it something else and once she did this, it was forever referred to as that "not quite the right word".

Actually it was her boyfriend's habit.  He was a good old Southern backwoods country boy who never learned to read or write and his hearing wasn't all too good either.  He mispronounced lots of words and mixed up sayings much in the vein of Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals(hence the term malapropism).
For example, he used the word "predny".  This meant soon....."I'll get to that project prendy."
He also had a word "addawhile".  This meant soon but not as soon as predny......."I think I can get that part "predny" but it's gonna take me addawhile to fix that car".
This sort of thing rubbed off on all of us.  We should refer to these as "Earlisms", as this guy's name was Earl.
The funniest Earlism my mother could NOT for the life of herself get right was the term she used to refer to Pokemon.  When my kids were little they were very HUGE Pokemon fans back in the 1990's when this craze first hit the US shores.

My mother called Pokemon, Pickaninny.
At first it about made us pee ourselves whenever she talked with the grandkids about Pickaninny.
But then, when I'd bring the kids home and they started getting confused and used "that word", well, it lost it's funny factor real fast. 8-P

And now that I've gone on and on with this, I'll get to the point.
I find myself coming up with Earlisms more and more these days.
Those coffee machines....Keurigs?  Those are Nancy Kerrigans around here.
The Old Country Buffet?  That is the Old Peoples Buffet.
Dumser's?  As of October, It's now officially Dumpsters in this family.  Yes, I misspoke and called it Dumpsters on this trip......so Dumpsters it now is.

So back to Dumpsters.....
I have a love/hate relationship with this place.   Hate the food, love the ice cream.
The food is fried stuff(fish, shrimp, chicken, etc.)with french fries.  There are burgers, sandwiches and 1950's style diner meals.  Someone is in back opening lots of cans, heating it and manning a fryer.  Not a meal I look forward to.  And while it's "cheap" food it's not priced cheaply enough for me.
But we got ice cream afterwards.....made on site ice cream.
I "heart" chocolate chip coconut ice cream with real pieces of coconut in it.....and I spring the extra .50¢ for a waffle cone.

And Dumpster's is where I first encountered that nasty version of a great side dish--cole slaw.  I guess this is an Ocean City or Maryland style Cole Slaw.  Though I spent 4 years in Baltimore and never tasted anything as revolting as this cole slaw there, so it must be an OC thing.
They should  rename OC Cole Slaw, Wilford Brimley Slaw
You know...."Mr. Dia-beetus".

The Wilford Brimley Slaw is shredded cabbage and carrots that has been soaked in mayonnaise infused simple syrup.  It's grotesquely sweet and will spike your blood sugar levels within minutes.  I took 2 bites and wanted to run around the room 20 times and then take a header into a wall.
Where was the vinegar....the tart to counterbalance the sweet? 
I NEEDED ice cream to wash that taste out of my mouth and then a walk on the Boardwalk to work out all that sugar.
Again, when I picture OC cole slaw in my mind now I see Wilford Brimley therefore my Earlism has taken over and this sweet cole slaw will forever be known as Wilford Brimley Slaw.

On Monday we did our errands......all those little shopping stops that needed to be done, most of them over the bridge in West Ocean City.  We hit the Sav-a-lot and the Dollar Tree for water and fruit, snacks and breakfast foods so we could eat in sometimes.  And Hubs hit Walmart for a pair of clip-on sunglasses.
We decided to use one of our Restaurant.com certificates for lunch at a pub called Whiskers in Berlin MD.  Since we were on the outskirts of Berlin by then anyway we drove around downtown Berlin looking for this place with no luck.  So we called them and asked for directions.
And it's a good thing we did, because Whiskers is not actually IN Berlin!  Berlin is the mailing address but the pub is in Ocean Pines over in a strip mall near the Casino.
Hubs had a couple of beers(I didn't)and we got fried pickles(ok but the dipping sauce was bleh!)and we each got a juicy burger.  I could only eat half of mine it was so big and came with so many fries.....on second thought I should have left the fries alone and just eaten the burger.
It was a lowkey, non-tourist place....somewhere the locals hang out.  And the inside was covered in Halloween decor.  I mean...
every.
single.
inch.
I wish I had remembered my camera on that day.  I can't find a photo of that place decked out for Halloween online and words would fail to give you the impact of a glimpse at the inside of that bar.
Let me just say that imagine every Halloween decoration, animated or blow-up or light-up figure and costume that you've every seen in your life was put into a room and a bomb was set off in there.
THAT is what this place looked like.

While I can't show you the dive bar's interior, I can show you this photo of the beach I snapped from the balcony back at the room....

Yes, we were up rather high this trip on one of the top floors and those tiny dots are full grown people.
The weather was great for late October that week.  Warm into the 70's, sunny and a slight breeze.  Lots of people on the beach and a few even went into the water!
We had awesome warm weather the whole trip and no rain.

A co-worker of Hubs told us to try Jr's(the place for ribs) this time.  It came highly recommended.  After an afternoon nap, we headed out for Jr's.  I was sorely disappointed in that the only pork barbecue was a sandwich, in a standard sized hamburger bun.  And it was $12!  Why does no one sell BBQ pork platter dinners anymore?

I am not a big fan of ribs but I got the ribs and as an after thought I threw in a crab cake to make it a combo plate.
While the ribs were good, they weren't anything to write home about.  I can and have made just as tasty ribs on my little home smoker on my front porch, and for a much lower price point.
But the crab cake?.....Who would think that a place that does smoked meats would have such a GREAT crab cake!!
It was awesome.....large, very little filler and huge lumps of crabmeat that you could actually taste.
I loved that crab cake so much I almost didn't feel pain when I saw how much it cost....
If we ever go back there, I'm doing the crab cakes, forget the ribs!lol
Another round of adult beverages on the balcony back at the room finished off the day.

Tuesday I made a late breakfast/brunch in the room and we lazed around until noonish.  We decided to hit the movie matinee on Tuesday.  We saw ARGO.  Having both lived through the Iranian hostage crisis time, we knew the ending going in but we still got caught up in the drama of it all.  I was surprised at how much humor was in the film.  I guess with Alan Arkin and John Goodman in it, there had to been some shits and giggles, right?
And if you think Ben Affleck is a doucheketeer, don't worry, you hardly notice him in this film(even though he has the main role). ;-)

We went to the 1 pm showing during the non-tourist season, so the only people in the theater with us were age 60 and over.....the Senior Citizen crowd.  Lots of canes and walkers and oxygen tanks to dodge to get out of the theater when it was over.  Thank goodness for no screaming babies and unruly children and ignorant younger folks who don't know any better than to be talking through the entire film!  It was so weird that when the credits started rolling, everyone in the theater burst into applause.  I don't know if that was because of the dramatic tension release experienced by the audience or if the film imparted a heightened sense of patriotism onto the crowd, that they then expressed or what.  It just seemed like the natural thing to do......

Since we hadn't eaten since breakfast, we headed from the movie theater off to Selbyville, Delaware to use another of our dinner certificates at a place called the Hawaiian Crab Bar & Grill. 
And it was closed.....no hours on the door, nothing.  We called the phone number and got a machine that told us to leave a message but gave us no information on their hours.  The website did NOT say they were closed for the season either.  On the way back down to OC, we did some shopping here.....

While in tax free DE, might as well stock up on more adult beverages, right?
We had fun browsing around.
$110 later we left with some goodies for the vacation, some goodies for home and a few Christmas presents.
We give great presents you know.....you might want to get on our list. ;-)

We still needed to eat a real meal on Tuesday so we heading back into OC. Next to the movie theater was a Denny's.   We decided it was a safe place from high prices and food poisoning so we dined there.
I got the All-You-Care-To-Eat Meatballs and Spaghetti.  In all my years, THIS was the first time I ever ate something other than Breakfast foods at Denny's.  I was just not feeling hot cakes and eggs that day.  So I took a chance and the meal was actually pretty decent!  The salad was awesome and not just wilted iceberg and 1 cherry tomato.  The garlic bread left a lot to be desired however, but the pasta and balls were good.   And really, the spaghetti should not be all-you-can-eat because I had problems just getting through 1 plate full.  Who could actually eat more than 1 serving!?!

A nice walk down the boardwalk and then back to our hotel for some adult beverages and television watching finished off our day.

To Be Continued.......

Sluggy