About last night

Wow. What a dinner last night. And I'm not talking about the food, which was pretty good. Mostly seafare, but they have some other offerings, including the churasco beef, which I can whole-heartedly recommend. We also sampled some fried alligator as an appetizer. Some say it tastes like chicken, but I think it's more like armadillo (okay, maybe that's a Texas thing). The real entertainment started after the meal, when we noticed a couple of ladies staring at Mac. And when I say staring, I mean "take a picture, it'll last longer" staring. They finally came over and struck up a conversation. And while the full experience can never be adequately recreated in this format, I'll hit on some of the highlights:

1. It seems they didn't understand that we weren't an NHL level hockey team.

2. They wanted to know how we were allowed to use the same jerseys as the San Jose Sharks.

3. They were incredulous as to how we could afford to play the game. (I guess our apparently extravagant lifestyle amazed them.)

4. The one pictured kept leaning over the rail, (well, at least a portion of her was) in an apparent attempt to flirt with Mac.

After a long, repetitive conversation that left us feeling like we had run over our head with a car several times, they finally excused themselves and left. Or so we thought. They then came back with their husbands. Yes, you heard that right. So now the second part of the amusing, but admittedly awkward conversation commenced.

One if the husbands wanted to know how we could be any good at hockey if we weren't from Canada. We informed him that no one on the team claimed to be any good at hockey. He then informed us that he was from Detroit and was a die-hard Wings fan, which got Johnny's ire up, being from Chicago and a Blackhawks fan. He sarcastically asked the guy what kind of car he drive, to which the guy responded, "I worked for Chrysler- what kind of car do you think I drive?". When Johnny replied, "Toyota", and I thought we were going to have a showdown. There were some other comments about the quality of some 80's model Detroit products before both sides seemed to calm down, and the interlopers retired.

Chalk it up to another Ice Hole adventure. Good times.