24MAY03: Well, we finally
went to the
Tonga Room. Now I can mark that off my list. I figure at
this point, I either need to add more things to do to my list or just do
them all and move to a new City and start over. Before the Tonga
Room, Mom, Jonathan and I went to the Cheesecake Factory (yes it takes 2
hours to get in) and sat outside on the roof of Macys' at Union Square.
(Damn, I love those avocado egg roll things.) Then we took a cable
car back to the BART station for my mother's second BART ride of her life-
she had seen it being built but moved before they finished it and never
got to ride on the darn things. So easy to please her- of course,
the Hurricane might have helped. Other highlights of the evening:
dancing on what seemed to be the deck of a ship, "Well, I was a groom
once". The photos below were taken with the Steel Trap, so they're
hella blurry- but that's part of the fun, right?
Oh, the palapas, the rain indoors, the fake lagoon and band on a boat. Add in the fact that drinks are like $15 each and have as much alcohol as the punch did in Kindergarten (hey, thanks again for that, Mrs. Geranium) and you have the splendor that is the Tonga Room.