On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:24:13 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 1:42:57 PM UTC-6, wrote:
>> On 12/17/2020 1:45 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> > On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 9:36:14 AM UTC-6, wrote:
>> >> On 12/14/2020 8:01 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> >>> On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 7:39:00 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> >>>> On 12/13/2020 7:04 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> We don't eat croutons or meatballs unless I happen to find meatballs on
>> >>>>> sale for cheap.
>> >>>> I don't understand why anyone would buy meatballs. So easy to make and
>> >>>> the taste is so much better. Never order them in a restaurant either
>> >>>> because they are usually some pre-made crap in canned sauce.
>> >>>
>> >>> One of the few good food things about St. Louis is Italian restaurants. There
>> >>> are no pre-made meatballs. We seldom eat at Italian restaurants here because
>> >>> they are pricey. Our favorite Italian restaurant is in an unlikely locale, Eureka
>> >>> Springs, Arkansas. https://ermilios.com/ It's easier to justify expensive meals
>> >>> when one is on vacation. Eureka Springs is touristy, but not cheesy like
>> >>> Branson, MO, more like a toy town, and they have a neat old hotel.
>> >>> https://www.crescent-hotel.com/
>> >>> There are trolleys, little overpriced boutique shops, and it's all very laid back.
>> >>>
>> >>> --Bryan
>> >>>
>> >> I doubt many people will be eating at Ermilio's right now and certainly
>> >> not outdoors. A bunch of snow dumped on Eureka Springs over the weekend
>> >> and it's not melting. Even before that, thanks to Covid, Eureka is
>> >> deader than a doornail.
>> >>
>> > By Summer, there will be plenty of vaccine. You're probably familiar with Eureka
>> > Springs, considering you called it Eureka, which is what the locals call it. It's a
>> > one day drive from here,
>> A one day drive from Saint Louis? Okay. It is a one day drive from
>> Memphis across the Mississipi River over the Memphis/Arkansas bridge.
>> Across the flatlands of Arkansas until you turn and drive up towards the
>> Ozarks. Mountain country.
>> > and we have gotten dirt cheap rates at the Crescent
>> > Hotel because we'd stay there frequently, and I'd call the manager directly and
>> > tell him that we were flexible as to the date, and would stay during weeks of low
>> > occupancy. It's been about 15 years, but it's still the same guy. Maybe next
>> > September...
>> >>
>> > --Bryan
>> >
>> Yes, I'm quite familiar with the triangle image of the Crescent Hotel,
>> having seen it in person.
>>
>> I hear about what is going on in Eureka nearly every day. Snow right
>> now and nothing is melting. Everything is shut down.
>>
>> The Crescent Hotel in Eureka was designed to be a grand hotel. Eureka
>> Springs was once upon a time a place where ritzy folks went to "take the
>> waters". Healing hot mineral springs. Back around the turn of the 20th
>> century, it was the place where rich people went to play.
>>
>> https://crescent-hotel.com/history.shtml
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>The Crescent Hotel is where my son said his first sentence, "I'm sowwy I
>fwew up on Favah" (I'm sorry I threw up on Father).
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His first lie
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