Lauren requested the Silver Diner, the chrome restaurant overlooking the Hillview Shopping Center in Cherry Hill. They make tasty diner basics using sustainable and organic ingredients. Lauren had a mint "no-jito," a ham and cheese omelette, a biscuit, and hash browns. I had blueberry pancakes with scrambled eggs and bacon and a "dirty creamsicle soda," organic orange soda topped with oat milk foam. The creamsicle soda was incredible (and yes, even the oat foam worked), the pancakes fluffy, and the bacon mostly crisp, but the eggs were too bland. (Lauren also said that her omelette would have been pretty bland too without the ham and cheese.)
We headed back across the slightly dilapidated and trash-strewn bridge over Route 38 and back to the Cherry Hill Mall after brunch. Squishmallows was having a buy one, get one sale on stuffed toys that were discontinued. I got an odd round unicorn for Finley and a sweet rainbow with a happy star over it for me. (The rainbow is Iris, for the Greek goddess of rainbows, and her little friend is Stella.) Did very well at FYE, picking up Wicked on DVD, a collection of Abbott and Costello's four horror-themed vehicles, and two CDs that were good prices:
Taylor Swift - Fearless
John Denver - Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits (2-Disc)
We hit JC Penney next. I found a sleeveless nightgown in a pretty pink rose print on a decent sale. Lauren said she'd go back and look later. Neither of us found anything at Old Navy. I stopped at an ATM to get money for the school fair later, and at Nordstrom's eBar to make change. Had an iced tea this time.
Left Lauren at this point, around 1:50. I really did need to get to the Thomas Sharp School. The Uber driver thankfully arrived in 4 minutes. He did encounter some traffic in Pennsauken, but not enough to make me late. In fact, I was fifteen minutes early. I walked around the block (and waved at the kids in the playground who recognized me) until it was time for work.
The kids were really restless today. They couldn't go on the playground because it was too hot, and they were setting up for the "Blacktop Bash" school fair. Once they started putting out the tables for the fair, that pretty much occupied the kids' minds. They kept jumping up off the cafeteria tables to check their progress. I read two Scooby Doo stories and Angelina and the Princess to distract them.
No wonder they were so distracted. The Blacktop Bash was going strong when I got outside. There was a line half-way down the block to get in. I gave them my $6, then went to get dinner. In addition to games and a bounce house for the kids, tons of raffles, and a DJ playing kid-friendly pop hits, there were three food trucks and four food tables. I got a tasty, if messy and spicy, chicken burrito from the taco booth, along with two cookies and a cupcake from the baked goods booth. Lauren sat along the side fence behind the track and landscaping, eating her own tacos. We enjoyed our dinners as I laughed at the kids running around and even introduced Lauren to a few of the ones I knew.
It may have been hot, but it was also sunny and breezy. We'd taken Uber enough. It was too nice to do anything but walk home. Stopped at CVS on the way to use the bathroom and get drinks.
I finished the night after we got in with Artists and Models. I go further into this hilarious musical comedy farce with Dean Martin as an artist and Jerry Lewis as a comic book nut at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
(Oh, and Lauren says she went back over the bridge after I left and got a few things at Kohl's and Target. She also explored Squishmallows, Macy's, and Old Navy again, but didn't have as much luck.)
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