The last few weekends have been busy to say the least. We spent one weekend selling all our furniture to get ready for the move then spent the next weekend actually moving. Then we added Christmas to the mix as well as bouts of the flu (what fun that was!) and the following weekend doing the big clean up after all that. Finally, we had a weekend that was ours. What to do... what to do.
I'd recently purchased a groupon for lunch at a place downtown I'd never heard of before - Yucatan Taco Stand. I got the address for it but still wasn't 100% sure where it was. We decided to go for a walk and see if we could find it. Boy, am I glad we did! It was awesome.
When we found it I realized it's located where Bourbon Street Cafe used to be. Honestly, I didn't realize Bourbon Street was no longer there but I was always surprised it stayed as long as it did. Considering my first husband was from New Orleans, I knew what good Cajun food was and Bourbon Street did not have it in my opinion. Plus, they were terribly overpriced. So I wasn't sad to see there was something else in it's place but I wasn't sure how good Yucatan Taco Stand was going to be.
We went inside and looked around. Someone approached us pretty quickly and told us we could either order at the front register and find a seat to wait for them to bring our food out to us or we could sit over in the bar area and opt for full service. We chose that.
The menu looked good and we were happy to see there were several options that would fit our plant-based lifestyle. We ordered an appetizer of chips, salsa and guacamole, a couple of Negro Modelos and a couple of vegetarian burritos on whole wheat tortillas.
The guacamole was seriously some of the best I've ever had with big chunks of avocado and lots of cilantro. The chips had some kind of seasoning on them that made them so yummy. The salsa was my least favorite part of the meal but it wasn't bad. The beer, delicious and wonderfully cold.
Then there were the burritos. Wow. So, so good and the presentation was great, too! Heathen son (remember, it's an affectionate term) used to be an "expediter" at a really nice restaurant and he called the finishing touches he put on plates "weeds and jingles." YTS did a good job with their weeds and jingles. Hubby said he was sure they were the best vegetarian burritos he'd ever had and I think I agree with him. We could hardly finish them. We will definitely go back.
After lunch we walked along the canal since we were right there. There were plenty of people out wandering around on such a beautiful afternoon and it was nice to see. We stopped in to check out another place I'd bought a groupon for - a wine place called Put A Cork In It. We will go back at some point for a wine tasting but we were so full then it didn't sound too appealing. At least now we know where it is.
When we surfaced from the canal, we decided to walk on down to Harkins movie theater and check out Red Pin Bowling while we were there. We've signed up for a bowling league there starting the end of this month but neither of us had ever been there before.
After we checked out Red Pin, we went to the front of the theater and decided to time ourselves walking home to see just how long it would take. It would be good to know.
Sweet hubby started his stop watch and we headed north on Mickey Mantle Drive. It was nice to see there was a good line of people outside the ballpark ready to give the snow tubing a try. We thought about looking in on the but it would affect our time so we walked on by.
As we approached 2nd Street, I told hubby I needed to stop in at Native Roots Market to pick up a couple of things so he paused the stopwatch while we went in. I just love this little store and want to try to support them as best we can.
After a quick grab of some vegan cream cheese and some wonderful jalapeno hummus (that they make there), we were back on our trek home. When we stepped up to the front door of Block 42, we had just over 14 minutes on our stopwatch. Not bad, not bad.
We had so much fun on our Saturday outing that we decided we'd do it again on Sunday. Sort of. The temps were supposed to be much lower (and wow, there were not kidding about that!) so we decided we'd drive over to the theater to see a movie and take our bowling balls with us so we could hit Red Pin afterwards.
We started with Saving Mr. Banks. Wow, what a great movie that was. I love Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson and they both did wonderful jobs. I have a feeling the movie hit pretty close to the actual events, too. Sure seemed to from the actual recordings they used at the end of the movie. And I just loved the movie poster with the shadows of Mary Poppins and Mickey Mouse. Very clever.
Then we were off to Red Pin to actually play this time. We had a bit of a snafu there where the ball return didn't like sweet hubby's brand new bowling ball. They offered to move us over to another lane but we had to wait almost an hour. Good thing they had beer and fried pickles to tide us over. :)
We got home just in time for me to make a big batch o' chili (and what a perfect night for chili it was!) before the kids came over for dinner.
Yep, it was definitely a good downtown weekend.
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