Sun's Out, Shades Out -- and a Brunch Fail

This past weekend, we got some sunglasses for Lola, and to our delight they fit her now.  Here she is modeling them while snacking. I can only imagine what she thought when her world suddenly went dark.  I'm guessing she really didn't care, as she continued to suck down her milk with steely single-minded focus!

What a cool cat

 On Sunday, we tried to take advantage of the beautiful sunshine  and ventured out to brunch at The Winery, a restaurant near our apartment.   We opted to go there mainly because we wouldn't have to wrangle the stroller uphill (ah, the considerations of new parents)!

 

But it was such a disappointment - we arrived at 1:40pm to find that they had no seats on their main floor or second floor - so we had to carry Lola up three flights of stairs to squeeze ourselves into the last remaining open table under their booming speakers.  Then, over an hour later, we were still sitting there, starving, with an increasingly fussy infant, with no food in sight.  The entire restaurant was being staffed by a handful of beleaguered employees who clearly could not keep up with the Sunday demand.

Don't be fooled by the airy decor

Finally, we left cash enough to cover Michael's coffee and a generous tip to our beleaguered waitress, and left!  It was such a fail.  It was really no fault of the waitstaff, who seemed stressed, but we also couldn't continue to wait.  Michael and I ruefully admitted on our walk home that gone are the leisurely four hour brunches where we sit down and spend a long time perusing the menu and deciding what we want to eat.  We need kitchens that churn out food, pronto!