Blog Number 320

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Whew!  We are so glad to be back home again in Texas, in our own house, able to sleep in our own beds.  The drive back home was not too bad really.  We did hit rush hour in Indianapolis but even that was not too bad.  We did manage to forget the wife's pillow back in Indiana so my mother has shipped that to us (it was an expensive Tempur-Pedic pillow).  We stayed at the same hotel on the way home as we did on the way up and we arrived there early enough to be able to catch a matinee showing of Wall-E at a theater 1/2 mile away from the hotel.  We slept well and were up and on the road by 8:00 am.  We had a late lunch and arrived home around 4 pm yesterday.  We unpacked, got some laundry started and then relaxed for the evening (though I did have to make a CVS run as the son forgot his toothbrush somewhere along the way).  All in all, we are very, very happy to be home.

I realize that I did not blog much while on vacation so let me give you a highlight or 2.  One place we went to lunch was Louie's Coney Island...

Louie's used to be in uptown Kokomo (like for 50 years) but I seldom went there.  They moved about 3 years ago to right across from the building that I worked in while I lived in Kokomo.  I could walk over there for lunch whenever I wanted.  I would get 2 bakes for about $2.50 total.  A bake is a hamburger that is in the shape of a hot dog.  It is served on a hot dog bun and has been sitting in the Louie sauce for a while.  Throw on some mustard and onion and you have a little slice of heaven here on earth...

 

Still as tasty as I remember!  Louie's is not high tech and your bill looks something like this...

As you can clearly see, we sat at table 4 (T4) and I ordered 1 Coney (C) and 1 Bake (B) as did the wife.  We also had an order of French fries with cheese and chili (FF w/ ch & chili).  The wife had a large coke (LC) and I had a large root beer (LRB).  As you can see, the bill is actually just a post it note that I had to bring up to the take out section in order to pay (ours totaled around $11 before tip).  We had 30 minutes of pleasure while eating but about 2 hours of feeling not so well during the afternoon.  Still, I am glad we went.  If I remember correctly, they sell these during the Colts home games down in Indianapolis in the RCA Dome.  I am sure it would be more than $11 there though.

I have more pics (all taken with the handy cell phone) of our vacation but will save them for another blog.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon