Don Pablos of Doom, Part 2

This officially begins my boycott of the Christiana Don Pablos.

We went for lunch today. I know its 3 days before Christmas, so I figured it would be busy, but they were SEVERELY under staffed. It took about 10 minutes to get us seated even thought the restaurant was half empty. Waitress took forever getting our drinks and then when we ordered she had to ask me like 3 times what I wanted. I can get over that. The biggest thing that annoyed me about her was the fact that she kept touching me. Like every time she said something to me she would put her hand on my arm or shoulder. Note to all servers: Do NOT touch your patrons. She also got annoyed because Justin drank his soda fast (its was filled to the top with ice, so he really only had about 2 sips in each glass). At one point she told him he was cut off. She was only sort of joking.

So, the actual reason for my boycott: the guy who brought our food out dumped an entire cup of ranch dressing on me. I started to wipe it off with the one napkin I had and he kind of tried to help but more or less just stared at me. Yes it was a brand new coat and yes, it is dry clean only. He finally came back with some more napkins and help to clean some of it up but then started to walk away with out taking the pile of ranch coated napkins and the plate that was splatted. I kind of figured at some point the manager (or our server) would come over and say something, but we didn't see the manager or our server for about 20 minutes. By that time, I just wanted to leave. It took her another 15 minutes on top of that to get us our check.

So when all was said and done, it was a two hour lunch that consisted of soup & salad and a few tacos. Seriously?!?!?!

So frustrating!!!

Don Pablos of Doom

I know I haven't written anything in months but I finally had something happen to actually write about. Its a long story but it was pretty funny and stupid...

I got home from a baby shower in NJ around 7pm last night and wanted a quick and easy dinner, so we went to Don Pablos. There was about a 5 minute wait. When our little buzzer went off the nice hostess lady took us to our table but then decided that the table she brought us to wouldn't seat all of us because she apparently decided there were 3 of us. So we followed her and she took us to another table and said ok, here's a table for 3. I told her there were still only 2 of us so she took us back to the original table she took us to. She told us our server would be stacey. So then a guy shows up and says his name is james. So i guess we no longer have stacey. I think it would have been better if we had stacey.

James takes our order. I asked for Tortilla soup and a pick 2 with a cheese enchilada and a crispy chicken taco, Justin ordered a fajita salad. He had me repeat my order to him and then read it back to me correctly. So I get my soup and its super yummy and it has bottomless refills, so when he asked if I would like another and I said SURE! So he went to go get that. In the meantime, our entrees arrived. The guy who brought our food (not our waiter) says, ok, who got the matador? We both looked at him funny. And he was like, "so who's is this? the matador thing was a joke." Neither of us got it. So it turned out to be my entree but it had a soft chicken taco - not a crispy one. So I said, ok, its mine but its wrong. I told him it was supposed to be crispy and he told me he would get me another one...ok.

So then our waiter shows up with my soup. Except it was Chicken chili soup. So i stopped him and was like, hey, wrong soup. So he took it back and went to go get the tortilla soup. The other guy who was getting my crispy taco comes back with a new taco and walks away. I look at it and its beef. So then our waiter comes back with my correct soup and we tell him that its a beef taco and i ordered chicken. He seems flustered now. So he takes the taco back and tells me he will get the right one. so I sit there happily eating my soup and the other guy who brought us the other food comes by and says he has a Chicken Chili soup refill for us. We tell him its not ours, I already got my soup and thats the wrong soup anyway. He looks confused. So then the manager walks by and asks us how things are. We tell him what is going on and as we're talking to him my correct taco shows up. He is satisfied that we now have the correct order and looks super happy and walks away. We finish our food and get the check. Nothing was taken off of it and our waiter didn't really appologize for the MAJOR problems and the delays in actually getting me food. The food was good - when I finally got what I ordered. Silly Don Pablos. If only they ever trained their staff.

The Other Blog!

Don't get jealous...I haven't left this blog for another blog (even though I do neglect this one). Justin and I have started a dual blog. You can find it at http://www.justin-kristen.com/. Its also in my sidebar - Our After Wedding Blog. We'll be posting updates to our lives and such. Yippee!

NOOOOOO!

So we came back from dinner like 3 hours after I made Petunia and...

Poor Petunia! So sad. Maybe it will snow again and I can make a new one.

Look! Look! Its SNOWING!!!!

Hi.

Here is our Christmas tree from this year (which I am actually taking down tonight):

We thought it was pretty.

So I have wanted it to snow for like over a month now and today, it has finally happened. So much so that I was able to build a nice little snow girl on the back porch. She is about 4 feet tall. So here is Petunia:

She gets her name because she has dried flowers on her. I'm so crafty.

So anyway, not much new. Justin is working 80 hour weeks again. He's on call now. Sad. My father is in Florida for 2 weeks, so my mother came down to visit for 2 days, so I'm not alone when Justin is on call. We went to Don Pablo's for lunch and it was super. Tomorrow I have to take her home and then go see some clients and do paperwork and stuff. I am super excited to MLK day off. YAY another short week next week!!!!!!!

Ok. I think that's it. Time for dinner and tree disassembling.