04 March, 2008

Organ Stop Pizza!





One of Didi's suggestions was Organ Stop Pizza- who could say no? It is a landmark. We decided to go on Sunday to avoid dealing with the 60. Also we were told that it opened at 4 p.m. (!?) and filled pretty quickly. So we got the caravan rolling and ended up arriving at about 4:35 p.m. local time. First thing I noticed was the gazillions of cars in the parking lot. Next thing I noticed was that a large percentage of said cars had out of state (country?!) license plates. Duuuh. I had forgotten about the whole snowbird thing! Next thing I noticed were the septuagenarians being dropped off at the front. We made our way inside and that place was PACKED! We are talking capacity. It was amazing that we were able to find 2 tables together and be able to have proximity to one another. The organ was huge and beautiful. The gentleman playing was really earning his keep and getting a good workout while he was at it. A lot of showtunes, only one or two that I recognized but I bet there were quite a few songs in Didi's repertoire. The food was decent, although for some reason James shunned pizza for the very first time in is entire life, which we attributed to the fact that he had not slept but for about an hour and a half and spent a large part of his day in the car. Eventually, he mellowed out. We figured out much later that he probably wanted to eat his pizza whole. After we got home and made pizza PJ started to cut it up and James was shouting "All done!!!" at him, so we gave him a piece whole and he loved it. But on vacation in a room full of AARP members that is swooning with the sounds of the organ it's not conducive to me figuring out any of that. After the pizza and the awesome show (which included a Mary Poppins tune much to Ava's delight and the Notre Dame fight song) we decided to head back to Didi and Papa's for a little bit as it would probably be the last we would see of Jim and Julie and their crew. Ava was stoked because she was really enjoying playing with Cambria. If only she played so nicely with her brother...

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