We had a pretty uneventful day here on the ranch. I didn't go for my bike ride, mostly because of the rain, and I kind of felt like running more. We sort of just hung out, I watched the Braves get dominated again by the Mets, and read a book. Played with AK a lot as well, got some nice vomit on me, she's good at that.
We went out to run a few errands and catch a pizza. The chicken salad we had planned didn't seem to be in the cards, or really what we were in the mood for so we hit up Mellow Mushroom downtown. No generally I'm a pretty anti-Mellow guy because its a chain, everyone there is a stoner for the most part, and the pizza, though good, is just not better than Lupis. But the problem I have with Lupis is its small, smokey, and loud. I love the Hixson one which we went to a week ago, but living on the Mtn its too far to go out there for pizza.
So I gave mellow a try 3rd time I've been there I think. Everytime its taken forever to get our food and our check, tonight was no exception. The cheese bread came out quickly but in the end it was a hoagie roll with garlic butter and cheese, not too impressive, it tasted good but lacked the flair and awesomeness of a Lupis Bruchetta (aka cheese bread). The pizza was good, they have a few more toppings that Lupis doesn't, but they charge you an arm and a leg for them. Like Portabellas, lupis doesn't have those, but they charge you for two toppings at Mellow if you get them and they usually don't put enough on there anyway. Our waters were good, hard to mess that up.
But what I've decided that sets apart Mellow from Lupis is the out door seating. We ate outside and thankfully no one smoked near us. Side note: I'm allergic to cigarettes (throat tightens and gets scratchy also my eyes water and get scratchy to wear I'm generally pretty miserable), the wife's pretty allergic as well, and we have a 2 month old so I'm pretty anti-smoking. Plus I think it totally is rude to smoke while people around are trying to eat, people want to taste food not ash and smoke. So thats my rant on smoking. So we're out side enjoying the nice cooler weather thanks to the rain earlier today. And man we saw some great freaks. I mean the people watching was awesome. We saw some amazing mullets, some fat people in too tight clothes, a pregnant woman drinking a beer, entire families including kids walking down the street smoking, a person park in half of a spot, it was great and made the mellow all worth while. Though Lupis has better food and Pisa has better atmosphere and 1 PBRs. Hixson Lupis has cheap guiness 3.50 but as mentioned before too far.
We then went up to the Hixson Target.... yeah i guess we could've hit the luips up there come to think of it. But we went up there to return some stuff and get some stuff. I hit up the new Bestbuy up there and was astounded to see a best buy that was about a 1/3 the size of a normal best buy, it was tiny. Everything was pretty well organized and compact to save space, they didn't have tons of merchandise though. They'd have 3 of one kind of cd/dvd and that was about it. Not too many games, hardly any appliances. I had read an article about how Best Buy was going to start making their stores custom built to where they were being placed in order to better combat walmart. Basically if in a techy area they'd have more ipods and computers, come to think of it this one didn't have any computers besides some laptops. Home Depot has done the same having some stores be more garden centers and others be more contracting type stores. Its interesting and the smaller best buy was fine by me. I didn't buy anything though. I've found that online is the best place to buy cds and video games. Dvds i try to stick to mckays.
And then we headed home, pretty laid back, just the way we like it.
Posted by holtonian at July 29, 2006 10:27 PM | TrackBack