Saturday, February 12, 2011

2-12-2011



So where are we going today while following this polar bear in the back of a pickup truck? We were too sick to do it last weekend, but now (almost) healthy again, we're continuing cheeseburger tour! I'm really going hard with this "I'm allowed to eat meat sometimes" strategy on the weekends. Today we're checking out Hamburger Station, another local legend burger place, but rather than a drive-up style place, this one serves more White-Castle-esque slider sized burgers. These are cool because you can eat 10 of them and not really eat that much, and you can also pretend that you're huge while doing so. Beyond the bags of onions and potatoes to make you think that your ingredients are cooked fresh daily (who knows how long those bags have been sitting there), the real draw to this location was the rumor of a table with saddles for chairs. We didn't see the table at first and though that this was just a vicious rumor, but no, you can actually sit in a real saddle while you eat miniature cow patties (that doesn't sound right). I don't know if I'm stressing this enough...a table surrounded by four real saddle chairs. As for the actual food, it was very good (other than the fact that they used an entire bag of onions on our burgers). This is still the champ though...even if this particular location looks like a gas station.

After that, we went on a pilgrimage of thrift and antique stores. We love shopping for junk (I'm pretty sure that's the same vintage of rolling chair that we have at work). Today, I was especially attracted to religious items like this Free Mason Bible, an old Apocrypha, and this heirloom Bible. I'm not sure what Nicole was looking for. Maybe this futuristic organ. Long story short, after following one shops directions to another a few times, we got lost. In the middle of nowhere. This happens to us kind of a lot.

Now I wasn't too sure about posting this last bit, but I think it's really funny, and I almost busted my face open on the ice trying to take it...so here. A few things to point out, this was in the front window of a thrift store for second hand, used stuff. If that wasn't enough, notice the anti-theft sensor tag. Do they really have such a shoplifting problem of transparent pink underwear that they need to implement loss prevention security precautions? (I don't think I want to know the answer to that). Happy Valentines day everyone!