Saturday Night Bokeh & Joy In Unlikely Places...

Last night was...different. We had a busy day, we got a bunch done, and we decided to treat ourselves to dinner out. It was raining, and windy, and not exceptionally nice out. But out we went, to our local Irish themed mass chain restaurant {which I won't come right out and name but I'm sure you can infer}. They told us there would be a 10-15 min. wait. No problem. We went into the bar area and let the kiddos ogle over the games and such. Long story short, apparently there was only one table in the entire facility that could accommodate our absurdly large family {can you sense my sarcasm?} After waiting nearly 35 minutes, watching countless other parties be sat, prodding the hostesses, then watching them inquire to the manager but the manager apparently concurring that there was, in fact, only one table in the entire facility to accommodate our absurdly large family...I instructed them to take us off the list and we walked out. There was no way I could allow our hard earned cash to support a place like that. Plus, we had very hungry children who were also becoming very tired.

At this point, it was late. We couldn't risk having to wait for a table at any other nicer restaurant {which was a likely occurrence seeing as how it was 6pm on a Saturday night}. So we opted for necessary over nice, as we so often do as parents, and went to Arby's.

I was disappointed. I had wanted a nice meal out with the family. But you know what, there was almost nobody in Arby's, we got our food fast, the kids were happy, and we all laughed so much! I don't know that we would have had quite as good of a time at that unnamed Irish themed restauant-igan {hint, hint}!

Anyway, I had brought my camera along and on the way home decided to capture some great out of focus bokeh pictures. Because you see, a rainy dark night, leaving Arby's, is perhaps the best time and place to capture such pictures. Suddenly those absurd neon signs become beautiful art. And I really like beautiful art.

I took a lot of pictures on our short ride home...because I couldn't help myself. My husband so naively asked "will those even come out? can you even see anything?" "Oh my, Brent...will they ever come out nice!" I assured him. And I think they did.

Okay, God, lesson learned...beauty, love, the true wonderful moments in life come at the most unlikely times, in the most unlikely places.

Like when you're on your way home, from a Saturday night family dinner at Arby's, in the rain.

Happy Sunday to you all! I hope you're having the best of weekends!