Vacation 2008: Day Three

Whoops, I meant to post this update last night, but I was simply too tired.  Yesterday was a day of coffee, yarn shopping (not the boys), and Cinco de Mayo celebrating.

Springfield has many, many great coffee shops, and our goal is to hit as many as we can.  We sampled the wares of The Coffee Ethic from their booth at Artsfest, yesterday morning enjoyed vanilla cappuccinos from Oaxacafe (wa-Ha-ca-Fay), and that evening strolled to the Mudhouse for a Mudskipper and a double-shot cappuccino.

What would Cinco de Mayo be without a trip to a Mexican restaurant?  We found Maria's Mexican Restaurant on the Interwebs and it looked like the town's best place.  After a bit of a wait (seems Mexican restaurants are popular on Cinco de Mayo, who knew?  Ha!), we had a very enjoyable meal.  I had a chicken enchilada, and a fried taco, on recommendation from our waitress.  Fried tacos are very, very good.  Ramblin had carne asada, and offered me a taste.  The beef had such outstanding flavor, I didn't even mind the heat.

Ah yes, the yarn shopping.  Our first yarn stop was She's Crafty, a little shop not too far from where we are staying.  It was a very neat shop, very friendly proprietors, and yarns I had not seen in person before.  My only purchases were size 5 Addi Turbos and some yarn for an x-mas present.

I forgot to post one of the most important things - the cookies of the day.  Each afternoon when we get back, there are four perfect, wonderful cookies waiting for us.  Sunday's cookies were peanut butter filled chocolate cookies.  Yesterday we were greeted with these.

Yep, we want to live here.