Just a Thursday Adventure

Janessa: "Hey I got a Groupon for $1 for $12 at a little restaurant I'd never heard of. Wanna go with me sometime?"

Me: "Of course. Is that even a question?"

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So I'm sitting at work all day Thursday (6.25 hours at least) bursting with excitement, eagerly anticipating the dinner I will be getting that is for the first time in weeks, not in the Great Hall. 

Janessa and I drive down the mountain blasting King Charles, driving on roads we've never been on before. 

The directions told us to turn left at a stoplight. So we did. And we came across a road sign that said "Funeral Ahead." Hmm. Ok. Well, there was no "funeral" ahead, but there was a humongous cemetery that we were suddenly in the midst of. Where the heck was the restaurant? We are out in the back country of Georgia in the middle of a cemetery with no Lou's Barbecue in sight! What did we do wrong?

Time to backtrack. Back through the cemetery, back past the "Funeral Ahead" sign, back past really shabby-looking houses (which I had been relieved weren't the restaurant, though at first I thought they were),  back to the stoplight. We had gone one road too far.

We finally did make it to Lou's Barbecue. It looked pretty sketchy. But it was closed. Five o'clock in the afternoon and it was closed. Why?!

What could we do? We couldn't return to eat in the Great Hall after being so excited to escape it. So we drove through the tiny little town of Rossville. It's a very southern town with old factories and boarded up windows on what used to be furniture and antique stores. 

And then we saw it....

....Roy's Grill!!

We knew it was the place for us. Set on a street corner, this little 50's-style place really brought us back in time. The waitresses conversed with the regulars, the old men ate their weekly Roy's Grill burgers, and Janessa and I sat at the stool by the counter taking it all in silently. We ate our Jr. sized burgers with fries and water, listened to the old music, and lived, just for that short half hour, in a world very far away from Covenant College. 

I forget sometimes that I'm in the south. Covenant isn't very southern, people here are from all over the place. But just a short ride twenty or thirty minutes away can put you in a very southern, hick town. 

We had no idea where we would end up after learning that Lou's was closed. But what we found was someplace really awesome and really special. I don't want to tell many people about it because I don't want Covenant to know about it. It's just so cute and 50's and there's not many places like that anymore. 

I guess I know where I'll be next time I need to escape. 

....oh, and I'm ready for some more adventure around here.