Little Miss Sunshine

This afternoon, Cas and I headed downtown.  We had a Groupon, of course.  This time, it was to get to the top of Reunion Tower.

We left my place in the afternoon and headed south, hoping to figure out our lunch plans on the way.  We ended up at an Uncle Julio's on Lemmon Avenue.  It was kind of busy and pretty full of families and groups of friends.  The meal was fantastic- we had fajitas.  We were enjoying the food and having a generally good time, when a family in the same area as us started singing happy birthday to one of the members of their party.  Several of the nearby tables joined in, and when that song was over, a table right next to them indicated that there was a birthday celebrant there, too.  So, the whole portion of the room we were in sang to the next person.  Turns out, there was a child at another table with a birthday, and that was the third iteration of the song.  A fourth table said they had a birthday, and the song piped up again.  That's when a manager at the restaurant pushed an employee to the center of the floor and indicated that it was her special day, as well.  It was the silliest, craziest series of birthday songs I had seen in a while.

We found out after the last note was sung that the fourth one was a lie (she indicated that her friends had fibbed), but I am confident that one, two, three and five were the real thing.  

With that done and all of the birthdays in Uncle Julio's recognized properly and celebrated through song, we finished our meal and carried on. 

As we were walking from the parking lot to the tower, we kept seeing very young girls dressed pretty inappropriately.  Scantily clad, even.  It took only a few under-dressed little girls to pass with their yoga-panted mothers for us to figure that there was probably a dance competition happening at the attached hotel.  We decided that there may, in fact, be a pageant.  We dubbed the event we were imagining "Little Miss Sunshine."  

We went on- up to the top of the tower.  The observation deck is 470 feet up, and it was a pretty windy day.  It was a great time, but that's not at all surprising.  We always have a great time.  We walked around the outdoor part of the deck  twice and we wandered on the indoor portion a few times, as well.  It was pretty cool.  

When we made it back to the ground floor, I saw something I had never seen in real life before- I saw someone taking a selfie with his phone, but he was doing it with the legendary selfie stick.  I couldn't help myself- I pointed at the stick and said, "Oh wow.  I have never seen one of those out in the world!  They exist!"  I should have taken a photo of the boy taking that photo.  Missed opportunity...

After leaving Reunion Tower and the myriad Little Miss Sunshines, Cas and I headed back north and stopped for a few drinks to round out the afternoon/early evening.  

We agreed that we would part ways before the nighttime.  We've spent a lot of time together lately, so it's no big deal to stay home on a Saturday night.  We kind of did it up in the afternoon.  Plus, I am pretty sure we saw Little Miss Sunshine somewhere along the way, and you can't really top that.  You may as well stop your Saturday there.