Two county search for breakfast

Unbelievable. We decided to go to Litchfield for breakfast, which is the next county over. Not far, just 8 miles or so. We get to the diner and it's packed. Parking lot is packed and when we get inside there isn't a single table unoccupied. Time for Plan B.

We drive back to Mt. Olive, thinking we will to to Sunset, another good restaurant for breakfast. Guess what? We forgot that Sunset is closed on Mondays. Across the street is Crossroads Diner. Their lot is packed and we know they hardly have any tables to begin with, so we are implementing Plan C.

We drive to Gillespie, thinking we will have breakfast at Toni's restaurant. Gillespie as about 8 miles in a different direction from Litchfield, but oh well. We get to Toni's and they are closed too! Wow, we just can't catch a break... Plan D...

Back to Litchfield (by now we have made a large loop through two counties and are really getting hungry). We think Rt. 66 Diner may have a table now, since it's been 45 minutes or so. Not true. Parking lot is even more packed. Plan E (for EAT, maybe?)...

We go to Denny's. Not usually on our radar because it's expensive and it's a chain restaurant. We like our local places. We get to Denny's and there are people sitting outside like they are waiting for a table. Ev is not happy. I tell him to go ahead and park and I will put our name on the list. Luckily it was not a long wait at all for a table, and once Ev had coffee he was happy. This is his smiling face while we were waiting for our meal. Breakfast was good and now we have the rest of the day to do whatever.

He just left on the bike for a ride. It's very nice outside right now and he wants to take advantage of it. I'm going upstairs to sew. When he gets back we are going to do a little work outside on the deck that shouldn't take long at all.

Dinner is going to be super simple too. He requested chicken and rice soup. I happen to have three bags of it frozen and ready to eat, so I just took one out to thaw. Will either put some bread in the bread machine or make a loaf with the artisan dough in the fridge. Or we might just have crackers! haha. Depends on how I feel.