June 28, 2023
Tonight we are taking the four grandchildren to a place called Color Me Mine. It is a pottery painting studio. Well, we met them there as Carissa and Brian brought them. The studio was loaded with various items of pottery that you can paint and then they will glaze and fire them. You come back in a few days and pick the finished product up. They also had several pieces finished to give you ideas. Georgeann chose a BB-8 to paint. The top portion comes off and it is a container. It just so happens that Grandma chose the same item but she is painting it for Andrew. Lachlan selected a large mug and painted it in the Indiana Jones theme. I believe he was going to gift it to his Dad. Emmeline is really in to panda bears. They didn’t actually have pandas but they did have a bear lying on its back playing with a cub. She painted it as a panda bear. Ellia was adventurous and chose a guitar to paint. Daddy plays guitar so she decided to do that. The guitar is about 18” long. It is really cool. And then I selected a container in the shape of an X-Box game controller. I chose this for Braxton. He enjoys playing video games. It took us about 2 1/2 hours to put on our 3 coats of paint. We all finished then in one sitting. Everyone had a great time, talking, laughing, discussing paint schemes, etc. They really enjoyed themselves. As did we.
When we were all done we walked down the street a little to the Cold Stone Creamery. Nancy and I had not eaten any dinner yet. The kids were going to get ice cream and eat it on the way home. I think the popular item was milkshakes. We said our byes in Cold Stone and went our separate ways. Nancy and I had a ways to walk back to the truck so we discussed what we wanted for dinner.
Once in the truck we looked up various restaurants close by. We decided to try Rock Bottom Brewery. My flight here consisted of a Watermelon Hibiscus Blonde, Liquid Sun, Gila Pale Ale, and Lighten Up! Kolsch. They were good. The Watermelon Hibiscus Blonde was only okay. It sounded better to me than it tasted. Nancy ordered a Cheesesteak sandwich and I ordered the Brisket sandwich. We thought we would each eat 1/2 of our order and then try the other 1/2 of the other one. Nancy didn’t care for the BBQ sauce on the brisket sandwich so I only had a bite of the cheesesteak. It was okay, a little dry for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the brisket sandwich.
Maybe I should be writing a brewery travel blog. :)
