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TX Hill Country When dining in the Hill Country during bluebonnet season...  You just have no choice but to stop at Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls! 3 bonus points for a cafe with a Pie Happy Hour! Reunion!  The Cody's drove over 3 hours from Fort Worth and Don and I drove about the same from Houston. 1 bonus point for a road trip reunion and 2 extra points for Alan...his first time in the blog. The Cafe is often filled with people gathering together while vacationing. The line is always long and the crowded atmosphere is hardly the place to catch up. But the crowded chaos is half the fun! Busy in the Kitchen
First you wait in line outside. Once you get inside you get to know your line neighbors well as you get shoved into them, each time a bathroom door opens. My favorite part of the line is when it reaches the kitchen door and you can watch them cracking eggs or carrying mountain high pies into the cooler. 3 bonus points for kitchen view...with stacks of eggs! Really lame photos of tee shirts! Our server, Tracy smiled, but she didn't stop long enough to get a non-blurred photo. I was hoping to capture her tee shirt with the state of Texas filled with blue bonnets. 1/2 point for that brief "people encounter"  The other tee shirt was worn by a man at a nearby table. If you are from St. Louis, you know Ted Drewes and their frozen custard which is so thick they serve it upside down! 5 bonus points for a people encounter with this customer who was happy to chat about Ted Drewes. Closer look at the shirt and you realize Ted Drewes has been in the biz the same number of years as Blue Bonnet Cafe! 4 bonus points for that thrilling knowledge!! Both food joints have been open since 1929! Food  What to eat? Too early for my pie appetite, but not too late for breakfast. My ham and cheese omelet, biscuits and hash browns were pretty much what I expected. I'm no gravy expert. I like the idea, but after 2 bites, it just seemed crazy that I was eating a bowl of gravy! So an okay 2 points for food. Love a Happy Line  It was 2 when we left and the line was still out the door. People seemed pretty happy, though. (probably not in August heat) So 2 bonus points for cheery folk. Bluebonnet Inspiration!  How can you eat in the Blue Bonnet Cafe, then drive out into the Hill Country and NOT get giddy seeing miles of bluebonnets? Christy and I weren't giddy enough to park along the road and pose in them, but we did stop a moment at this pretty patch outside a winery near Sunrise Beach.
5 bonus points for seeing them at all after last spring's dry season! 27.5 points for Blue Bonnet Cafe? Once again, it's a strange rating scale. 27.5 is pretty high... must have been our company that shot the rates so high?
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Linda Hoben
3/22/2012 10:28:27 am
Great blog Beth!
Christy Cody
3/22/2012 10:52:03 pm
Awww, I loved the high rating it got for the company! We had so much fun...(alan will be excited he's in the blog!) Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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