this time however, a Friday, just after 8 of the clock, the place was different, firstly it was jam packed. Well, for around $13 you can have you fill of over 119 dishes, including unlimited refills of soft drink, therefore it's bound to be popular, but nothing had prepared me for the sight that greeted me, for there my dear chums, was all human life, or rather all American human life!First there was the screaming 4 year old a few tables away, the father kept on putting things on his daughters plate, the mother kept saying 'She cant have that' then telling the kid 'Don't eat that' no wonder the kid was crying, you put a bowl of ice cream in front of a 4 year old and tell 'em they can't eat it - bloody torture. (Put ice cream in front of Matt and before you can get to the end of "You can't eat that" it's gone!)
Then there was the pile high family, who seemed on a mission to make a leaning tower of Pisa out of food. Surely one of the plus points about this kinda place is that you can go up as many times as you like to the various counters, but this family, mom, dad and two kids, seemed intent on piling as much nosh one each of their plates as possible. I'm kidding you not when I say it was a good 10 inch height when they returned to the table. I have no idea what it was, as by the time they'd piled it that high it was just a mixed up mush of food.
After that I saw what looked like a balloon family waddle across the room slowly, honestly first I saw the girl, who had a pretty face, but was ermm rather large and rather round, and I'm trying to be polite there, cuz this girl was big and I mean BIG with a capital B. Following here was, I assume the mother and father, who were even larger and even more rounded. Indeed the mother was wearing a pink valour type tracksuit which caused her to look like a massive balloon, albeit a massive balloon with little tiny legs popping out the bottom. Please don't think I'm being cruel to big people, I'm not poking fun a fatties, I myself am carrying a few extra pounds, but this family was ginormous, the biggest I've ever seen, I'm not passing judgement, they seemed very happy and content and are probably very nice folks, but boy where they big.
I mentioned them to a friend on FaceBook earlier today and said I wished I'd taken my camera, my friend told me it would have been worth it, as I don't have a wide angle lens!
Right behind us was a table of Christian's who were talking across another table to other Christians, so they were kinda loud. Now, I'm not a religious person as such, I'm open minded and mindful that others hold different beliefs and I respect that, but these holier than tho Christians did make me chuckle to myself, first they were soo over the top boastful about what good deeds they'd done, then it seemed as if they were competing to see who was the most religious and godly. One of them told his friends how he'd patrolled the church to keep them evil homo-sex-uals out, I had to stifle a laugh, I don't know of any homo-sex-uals that would want to go in there in the first place, but anyway this guy was a pretty big guy, and Mat pointed out that there he was shouting how good he was and with all his god bless you's was still there stuffing food in his face, fat dripping from his chin, behaving like the biggest glutton in the place. Oh well, as my old grandmother used to say, 'It takes all sorts to make a World, and a wise person knows when to look and when to close their eyes' Although what the end part has to do with anything, I don't know, but that's just my gran for you!
I watched the staff wizz about, dashing here and there, moving dirty plates, bringing drinks, moving faster than I've seen any waiting staff move over here and wondered what it would be like to work in a place like that. Most were clearly college students, so for them it was just a temporary placement, but for others it was a career, which made me wonder about another point, staff meals, if it's an 'all you can eat' buffet restaurant, does that mean staff meals are 'all you can eat' as well? Oh they do lovely Cajun catfish by the way!
After the wonders of the Corrall, it was homeward we went, I had planned a nice romantic bath, complete with bubbles, candles and rose petals (Well actually they were Lilly petals due to the lack of roses around our little apartment) I'd started running it, when Matt just wanted to get to a 'save' point on the game he was playing on his PS2. Ok I thought, I can live with that, a few minutes perhaps, that's all it would take, so I fixed us some appletinis and waited. Two and a half hours later he finished his game, got up and went to bed! So much for romance!
Anyhow, enough of this, how about a little strange news from around the world and around the corner to fulfill the weekend? But before I do, I just wanna say thanks to the people that took time to vote in my poll about the black background, I wanted to know if I should keep it or change it, the votes were positive, so it's staying, at least for a while! Right, back to funny facts and strange news :
Biting Brit!
A British woman who allegedly consumed prescription drugs, wine and liquid soap from the lavatory before scuffling with flight attendants on a London-bound jet will remain in jail over the weekend here in America! Galina Rusanova punched and kicked flight attendants and at one point during the flight, fell to the floor and began "snapping like a dog" while trying to bite a crew member's leg!
ich is close to the California and Mexico border has found the Virgin Mary in the cafe. Yep she's found a true likeness of Mary, which has been confirmed by the local priest as true, but guess where? Nope not in the Leslie (the new female name for the John, meaning loo, toilet, restroom, bathroom) but she discovered the image when cleaning the griddle!
there, Ann Muller, of the Lizard Pasty Shop, complained: "Why do they want to call their pasties Cornish? They're happy to call their cream teas Devonshire and we've got Cornish cream teas. "Let them put their pasties into a competition but call it a Devonshire pasty. Don't forget where the border is." . Matthew O'Callaghan, chairman of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association, which organised the inaugural British Pie Awards, admitted to an "administrative cock up". which now may lead to Cornish bakers boycotting next years event. To any American readers, this is all true, I'm not making it up, us Brits are, aparently fanatical about our pasty! 
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