one of my all time favorite movies is forrest gump. with that being said, it's no surprise that one of my favorite restaurants is bubba gumps. i love how everything on the walls is based on the movie. i love how they play the movie the whole entire time. and i love that they have a shrimp platter! my most recent visit took place in san francisco where i was accompanied by my lovely mother, my tia chayo (mom's sis), and my "too coo' for schoo'" cousin, julian. my relatives came up to santa cruz on the loveliest weekend the west coast could ask for. we took advantage of the beautiful weather and drove up the coast to frisco. after driving over the golden gate bridge and taking some snapshots at vista point, we decided to hit up fisherman's wharf. by the time we parked and walked there, i was starrrving! my cousin is a growing boy (at age 22 or somewhere around there) so i knew he was hungry too. the two of us were hauling ass, looking back every minute or two to see if our lolly-gagging mothers were still behind us...do all sisters walk the same and at the same pace? as we approached bubba gumps i was expecting to see a lot of people standing or sitting, waiting to be called to be seated, but only a few were loitering around. we walked right in and got seated right away...AWESOME! my favorite part of the whole bubba gumps experience is when your waiter quizzes you on the movie. the
last time i ate there, the waiter didn't play trivia with us, so i was pretty bummed about that. this time we got quizzed, and i've come to realize that i KICK ASS at forrest gump trivia! i answered all the questions (or should i say i blurted them out before anyone else at the table could even think about it), and i got all of them right. just when the waiter thought he was going to stump us, or me, i fired out the answer. the waiter dude was so amazed that he gave all of us free passes to the san francisco bay aquarium, what-what!! so yeah, that pretty much was the highlight of my day (that and spending the day with familia). even though the aquarium was pretty crappy, it gave us something else to do and see without having to bust out our wallets. a couple of other neato-speedo things that we did was taking a tour of the wax museum (that place was scawey!), and driving down the crooked street (i am no longer a lombard street virgen, thankyouverymuch).
one of my all time favorite movies is forrest gump. with that being said, it's no surprise that one of my favorite restaurants is bubba gumps. i love how everything on the walls is based on the movie. i love how they play the movie the whole entire time. and i love that they have a shrimp platter! my most recent visit took place in san francisco where i was accompanied by my lovely mother, my tia chayo (mom's sis), and my "too coo' for schoo'" cousin, julian. my relatives came up to santa cruz on the loveliest weekend the west coast could ask for. we took advantage of the beautiful weather and drove up the coast to frisco. after driving over the golden gate bridge and taking some snapshots at vista point, we decided to hit up fisherman's wharf. by the time we parked and walked there, i was starrrving! my cousin is a growing boy (at age 22 or somewhere around there) so i knew he was hungry too. the two of us were hauling ass, looking back every minute or two to see if our lolly-gagging mothers were still behind us...do all sisters walk the same and at the same pace? as we approached bubba gumps i was expecting to see a lot of people standing or sitting, waiting to be called to be seated, but only a few were loitering around. we walked right in and got seated right away...AWESOME! my favorite part of the whole bubba gumps experience is when your waiter quizzes you on the movie. the last time i ate there, the waiter didn't play trivia with us, so i was pretty bummed about that. this time we got quizzed, and i've come to realize that i KICK ASS at forrest gump trivia! i answered all the questions (or should i say i blurted them out before anyone else at the table could even think about it), and i got all of them right. just when the waiter thought he was going to stump us, or me, i fired out the answer. the waiter dude was so amazed that he gave all of us free passes to the san francisco bay aquarium, what-what!! so yeah, that pretty much was the highlight of my day (that and spending the day with familia). even though the aquarium was pretty crappy, it gave us something else to do and see without having to bust out our wallets. a couple of other neato-speedo things that we did was taking a tour of the wax museum (that place was scawey!), and driving down the crooked street (i am no longer a lombard street virgen, thankyouverymuch).
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what fun! i was bummed to hear, and now read...that i missed out on a great weekend. julian was excited about bubba gumps too. he remembered all the questions and quizzed me and gaby. we kicked his ass. he was upset. but it sounds like he wants to go back =)
and yes, he's 22.
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