The perpetual question

Our vacation has a running theme - sight seeing activities followed by 'where do you want to eat?'. Today's edition had us start out by driving to the capital building and visiting Memory Grove. We followed that up by driving around one or two of the nicer home sections in SLC just to take a peak for fun. At that point it was time to address the 'where to eat' question. The answer was to eat at a breakfast place called Coachman something-or-other with decor that would be considered awful in any era but looked to have been last updated in the early 70s. However, the good reviewers of Yelp! rated it well enough and we, too, found the food to be good (but really, even I can cook a half-decent breakfast.).

After said breakfast, we struck out for Park City. I have to say the drive between SLC and Park City was incredibly beautiful. The highway snakes between mountains that are rolling and covered in trees whose leaves were changing colors. We took some lousy pictures using the phone while we sped by that will only serve to sully the memory. The drive really was the highlight. Park City itself was worth walking around, etc. But it is just a snooty little ski village. We also hit the Tanger shopping outlets that are right outside Park City. They are like outlets anywhere else in the country. At least they gave us a reason to get out and walk around a bit.

After we came back from Park City, we took a quick snooze (well, OK, I did as Lu fiddled with her phone trying to find a good time to see a movie later and, as always, to answer the question about where we should eat next.) We ended up choosing a place called Chanon Thai again based on the reputation of Yelp reviews because we had passed the place on a walk the other day and it's exterior does not scream 'eat here, you'll love it' but really enjoy it we did. The food was very good and spiced correctly even though I had to bargain with the waitress to get her to agree to spice my dish at a 2 level on a 1- 5 scale. I sad 3 originally but she pretty much said 'no' and thought 1 would be more appropriate based on the color of my skin. In the end, 2 was about right. Luciana pushed herself to the brink of splitting her pants as she first ate as much as she could, then continued to push on and scoop out any bits of chicken she could still find. After mercifully putting down her spoon and stopping, she suddenly thought better of it and proceeded to ladle out a few more servings of just the curry onto some dregs of rice. Despite proclaiming that she felt incredibly stuffed in an almost painful way, she was a good date and helped me through a cocunut ice cream dessert which was a most excellent way to end the meal. All I can say is that my mini little wife still has a pretty darn good metabolism.

After dinner we caught The Town with Ben Affleck. It was fine and well acted and all but overrated by critics. Nothing great. Waiting for Superman (which we saw on Friday) was a much better use of our time and money.