After our great adventure, food was no longer an option. Furthermore, we only had ONE choice unless we wanted Jack in the Box. The only restuarant within walking distnace of our hotel is the Benihana. Therefore, we hapilly decided to head that way and grab a quick bite at the sushi bar. Well, this ended up being an epic fail. Evidently, we were speaking a foreign language tonight because this was my face an HOUR after ordering our sashimi appetizer. Please, keep in mind that sashimi equals raw which equals no cooking time.

Yes, our waitress somehow lost our order (even though the restaurant was half empty) and then proceeded to present us with a sashimi salad instead of the sampler. The sashimi salad was NOT sashimi over a bed of greens. It was more like Texas’ attempt to merge as much mayonaise as possible with iceberg lettuce an some raw fish. *blek* After that was quickly refused we REORDERED our sashimi sampler and ordered 2 brown rice rolls, rainbow and eel. Now, insert thirty more minutes of laughter between Heather and I over the fact that EVERYONE else was being served except us and the poor sushi chefs kept offering us random food like edamame. Finally, after an hour and a half we received 2 bowls of brown rice and our sashimi sampler. Two bowls of brown rice? Maybe my New Yawk accent doesn’t translate down here and rainbow and eel roll rolls off my tongue sounding like brown rice roll? Oh wait, I DON’T HAVE A NEW YORK ACCENT BECAUSE I”M FROM THE SOUTH!

This time around I couldn’t even stop laughing for the picture to turn out. I really can’t say much more about this evening other than the fact that Heather and I haven’t laughed so hard together in the eight months i’ve known her. Maybe this was really a team bonding exercise in disguise and we were on candid camera somewhere. 🙂

I’m exhausted and am hitting the sheets with a smile on my face. Because after being awake for 20 hours I think i’m a bit delirious.