Up early to walk the dogs, it's a long way to get out of the hotel to the dog walk grass. Down in the lobby, Wicket smelled another dog scent in the carpet and decided that was a place to go. Fortunately I was able to quickly scoop her up and carry her the rest of the way outside, whew, made it without an incident!
Back upstairs in the room, Tina was slowly waking up! With showers done and other morning routines taken care of we fed the dogs and gathered up their bowls, food, toys, etc., oh yes, the dogs too, and headed downstairs to the car where we headed for the local Starbucks for Coffee and Breakfast, oatmeal with raisins, nuts and blueberries. Actually it was very good!
With breakfast done we drove over to Don and Diane's for a meet-up to go to Knotts Berry Farm for Diane's traditional Birthday Lunch, Fried Chicken with the works. Tammy took the wheel and with Don at her side received his directions on how to get there. Normally only a 40 minute drive, Don gave Tammy a couple of directions that took us on a more roundabout route so we didn't get there until around 11:30am. After parking we headed to the shops to do a little shopping before lunch.
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| Tina and Tammy leading the way to the Knotts Shops! |
Once in the shops, we
decided to mostly look and identify things we wanted to purchase before heading to lunch so we could pick them up
on the way back to the car. By noon we were ready to eat so we headed
over to Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner Restaurant. We were able to be seated right
away so had time to decide what everybody wanted.
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| Mrs Knotts Famous Chicken Dinner (not shown - Boysenberry Pie) |
The restaurant was made
famous by Mrs Knotts starting in 1934 when she opened a kitchen for "folks
just passing through". Of course, back then
Mrs. Knott did all the cooking and her three daughters served the five-table
Tea Room. Since 1934, over 20,000,000 guests have eaten chicken dinners in the
famous restaurant. In fact, the restaurant bearing Mrs. Knott's name has grown
into one of the country's largest full-service family eateries. Mrs.
Knott's traditional chicken dinners are something to crow about serving the
same famous chicken, biscuits, and boysenberry pie as she did when opened in
1934. Well we all had a really great lunch and ended up taking enough chicken home that we had leftover lunch for dinner!
After lunch we made our way back through the shops and picked up a few items to take home with us. The drive home was much shorter with Diane providing the directions, much to Don's chagrin - heh, heh! After dinner (fried chicken, what else) we got out the "Attack Uno" card game and played for several hour before Tina and I had to call it a night and head back to our hotel.
The dogs got one last walk around 10pm then we all hit the rack. It was a long fun day and we really enjoyed spending time with our friends.
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