Good Friends, Good Fun..Not So Good Food

I feel like Darren's birthday sucks every year. This year was no exception. I made him sticky buns for breakfast, which actually worked out this year! I thought that would have been a good sign, but no. Kelli, my cousin/sister-in-law is in town from NY and came and visited us. She has a 6 1/2 month old, Addi, that is so stinkin cute. She LOVED Colby and really wanted to touch every part of his face. Colby didn't like that so much but she didn't care. It was fun to see the different personalites the two of them have. Darren and I realized that Colby might be taking after my side of the family and be an introvert, while Addi might be an extrovert. She is such a busy little thing and already doing the army crawl. While Colby is content just laying around and watching TV...pretty sure I know where he got that from. Anyway, it was fun to get them together and watch Addi attack Colby while he cried. She needs to come around more often and toughen him up! :)

Anyway, later that night Darren and I, Vinny (Darren's brother) and Tierney, and our good friends, Chas and Heather went to Harvest at Thanksgiving Point. We were so excited to go because last time we went it was SO good. Ever since then we have been telling everyone how good it was. So, we get there and sit down at our table. As soon as we sit down we notice that our table is a little wobbly. Every time someone on one side of the table puts their elbows on the table it rocks their way. The waitress tried to fix it by putting a napkin under the table but it didn't work so the table rocked back and forth the whole night. About a half hour after we ordered our food, our bread comes out. You know the bread that usually comes out right when you sit down. Good thing we had that bread since that was the only thing some of us ate! Anyway, the whole reason we went to Harvest was because Darren LOVED the prime rib they had last time. So, of course he orders it again. He likes his meat pretty bloody and ordered it medium. When it came out it was completely brown not even one little bit of pink. I don't like my steaks raw but I do like a little pink. When I saw his prime rib I knew I couldn't even eat it. It was that bad. Chas ordered his prime rib medium rare and his was probably medium well. Heather ordered some sort of lamb and hers was well done. It was so disappointing to be so excited and to go out of our way to get babysitters and expect a good meal since it's not a cheap restaurant. Our food took forever to get to us so we knew we couldn't wait another 1/2 hour to 45 minutes for replacements. Our waitress came over and said she'd send the manager over. The manager came over, who looked like he was 16, and said he'd be right back. That's all he said. He didn't ask how we were, didn't say sorry, nothin! 10 minutes later our waitress comes back and says that she'll take 50% off all of our meals. The manager doesn't even come back! He sends the waitress over! Darren, Heather, and Chas just sent their meals back because they couldn't even eat them. So, the manager decided to give them their meals for free...which makes sense since they didn't even eat them! He also decided to give us three free desserts. I ordered some caramel apple type dessert. When they brought it out it was basically a sugar cookie with cranberries, raspberries, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. There wasn't a single drop of caramel or an apple on my plate. We asked the waitress and she said it was the right dessert but they apparently forgot to put the dried apple wafer thing on my plate. I swear by the end of the night we just couldn't help but laugh at everything that went wrong. The dinner item that Heather ordered was supposed to come with some broccolini. I don't know what that is but the waitress said it's basically some type of broccoli. There was no broccoli on her plate. It just seemed like the cooks were just sending out whatever they wanted. My meal was actually good. I got the pork tenderloin but I will never go back there again. I can't believe the manager didn't apologize or at least act like he cared. Oh and we were there for 2 1/2 hours. Not because we had finished dinner and were just sitting around chatting but because it took FOREVER to get anything. The service was so slow. At least we were there with good friends and did have some good laughs. It will be a memorable b-day but chalked up on the wrong list of memories. Maybe next year will be better...too bad I say that every year. Here's us trying to make the best of it...