Sometimes an adventure springs upon you when you are the least expecting it. Adventure isn't always something extreme sometimes it can be found in the ordinary experiences of life.
Anyway, some of my family was in town for a visit last week and we decided to go somewhere for a nice breakfast before they made the long drive home. Hmmm... where to go? It seems like not many restaurants offer a special breakfast during the week especially. Blue Mesa offers a wonderful brunch spread on weekends, which I would definitely recommend checking out. The brunch has won awards and the spread is quite impressive. It features everything from an omelet bar where you can create your own specialized omelet to roast brisket. Belgians waffles and fruit will satisfy your sweet tooth as well as desserts such as homemade chocolate chip cookies and fruit cobbler. This is not your everyday buffet, get ready to be impressed. On Saturday the buffet includes champagne and the most delicious mimosas. With so many choices this might be the only meal you need all day!
Well back to finding adventures in unusual places. I got off on a little tangent there with the Blue Mesa award-winning buffet back to the adventure story. Anyway, when my family was in town it was during the week so we couldn’t head over to Blue Mesa for their weekend brunch. We decided to try Mimi’s Café, a unique little restaurant that looks like a small cottage. Mimi’s would fit in perfectly on a hillside in Scotland. With perky flowers, tile roof, shutters, color and pizzazz a visit here is almost like stepping back in time. Any second you feel like little red riding hood might just pop up around the corner.
So we order breakfast and I ended up trying “Blueberry Stuffed French Toast “Inside and Out” a delicious twist on traditional French toast with a cream cheese stuffing and drizzled with a fresh berry sauce. I usually don’t eat a very large breakfast but this was way too delicious to just nibble. I ended up eating the entire mound of French toast.
While we were eating something happened that one would normally consider just an everyday mundane task not worthy of taking notice of. It was like a mini adventure captured in about 10 seconds flat. A waiter was setting the table next to us and I couldn’t help but stare. He took the mundane task of placing napkins and silverware on the table and turned it into a show. Somehow he whipped out a white pressed linen napkin that he had so carefully tucked in his apron and wiped the table. After this quick motion he refolded it into a perfect fan shape and tucked it back in the front pocket. Next, he placed four napkins on the table in literally two seconds flat and slapped knives, forks, and spoons on the table in a way that just looked he was juggling instead of setting a table. He wasn’t putting a show on for anyone he was just doing his job. The thing that struck me was how he took an everyday task he probably does 30 times and day and made it into something he could have fun at, a job turned into a challenge, a mundane task made into a performance. I know it wasn’t really something most people would classify as an adventure but for me I felt inspired to look at all the mundane things I do daily and make them into something fun. Life is short; we need to enjoy every second before life passes us by. A quote by Rose F. Kennedy sums up how I want to live my life:
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.” So go, relish the moment, make mundane tasks an adventure. Be inspired.
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