Breakfast at Mel's

Pictures like these make me cringe and remember that I really need to start bringing my Canon around for events.

Above is a picture featuring Marina, Sarah, Margo, Matt, Sarah, Brandon, Erica, Peter, Alyssa, Emelie, Kristi, Maddy, my empty seat, a blank seat, Stephanie, and Molly.

Emmie showed up too, but her sexy face just didn't make the cut.

Mr. Banker, Ms. Schomp (with her daughter Noah!) and Ms. Lee also came!

So basically, the breakfast outing was a huge success.

There were many pancake orders (chocolate chip with bananas!), a few waffles (banana creme crumble!), some eggs benedict (popeye and irish hash!), omelettes (sunrise?) and even a Coke (oh Sarah...)

I went with the intention of getting pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes, but as it was a specialty and was currently unavailable, I got the chocolate chip pancakes. Still yum.

However, the rendez-vous in it's entirety was a bit messy. First, we all asked for separate checks (and rightly so!), but the management didn't like it too much, as it created confusion and just a lot of checks to hand out. And on top of that, we had to add three more tables to our existing table chain because several people decided to surprise us with their illustrious presence. And they moved another table of eaters because we were quite enthusiastic with our conversations. I don't think they like us very much. Lovely.

I honestly don't understand how football goes there every Thursday for breakfast, and doesn't get kicked out/turned off by some of the attitude dished out.

On a more positive note, a huge, ooey-gooey, heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone that woke up at 5:30a.m. to get there. It means a lot to me that people are coming to these events :)

Love you all,

Steph