Now that we knew the Bagdad Café didn’t have food, we had to pick a new place to eat. I asked, “Aren’t we driving by Peggy Sue’s Diner? We could eat there.” Patti said we were, so we did. We arrived at about 4:30 pm at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner in Yermo, California. This was a different story to the Bagdad Café. We knew it was open because there were many vehicles outside. This made sense since it was a Saturday. We both went to the restroom. I noticed nothing unusual about the men’s room, but Patti said there was a stuffed cowboy at a fake urinal in the women’s room. We walked around the gift shop. It was large and had a few mannequins dressed in 50s attire around the room. I felt tempted to buy things, but the prices were too high. My self-control has been working so far. I would not blow that now. (Future note: The lack of self-control was yet to come.)
After looking at the stuff, we went to the dining area. They said, “Sit wherever you like.” This philosophy traveled into California. We sat in a booth in the second room. This room was much darker than the first room. We went back and sat in a booth by the front door. I had ordered fried chicken already on the vacation but I messed it up. This time, I was ordering the Southern fried chicken. I won’t tell you what Patti got because she didn’t like it. This is not a food-critic blog. Fried food always tastes good. It’s never good for you, but vacation Brian doesn’t care about that. We were both too full to finish, so we got to – go containers.
We had discussed where we were going next before we left Peggy Sue’s. It was less than ten minutes down the road to Eddie World. You can see it from the highway because it has a tower out front that looks like an ice cream sundae. More importantly, it has row after row of stuffed animals. Patti knows that’s why I wanted to go there. I was just going to look, but something caught my eye. It was a Javin slow loris. You might know it as what I called it before I looked up its proper name – the big-eyed sloth/lemur/monkey animal. It was small compared to the other stuffed animals. This began my search for more must-have plushes. I found a ball-shaped tiger, a purple dragon, and a baseball with feet for Patti. She rolled her eyes when she saw what I was getting. I kept myself under control most of the trip, but I finally gave in to my stuffed animal addiction.
We left Eddie World at about 5:40 pm. It took about 1 ½ hours to get home. We drove into the driveway and knew the cats were going to freak out when they saw us. I took just a few things into the house so I could see them as soon as possible. Sure enough, they were all there at the door to greet us. As we brought stuff from the car into the house, they started sniffing everything we put down. They couldn’t decide between their curiosity and fear of all the objects we brought in. Eventually, they ignored us and continued to examine all the objects from the outside world.
Patti just wanted to sit down once we got everything inside. I couldn’t sit down until I put all my toiletries and other things away. Going to bed is harder if I still have things that need to be done the next day. I also had to get out all our souvenirs from the trip. We had fridge magnets, baseballs, and shot glasses from the places we visited. These added to the stuffed animals I bought, and we had quite the haul. I finally sat down with Patti on the couch and we watched some TV. With my phone in hand, I showed her some pictures I had taken on the trip. The cats sat around us. They were glad we were back, and we were glad to be back. As with all vacations, they let you appreciate what you’re missing out on back at home.
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