Since my roommate has trained for endurance sports for over a decade and I exercise every day,
I can count on her to walk with me for a couple of miles at least once a week. This normally occurs when there’s no capoeira class or I’m not in the mood to work out in the fitness room, especially if the weather is decent.
We figured these long walks would be more rewarding if there was a food destination attached. That way, we’d get a brief libation and bathroom break, then we’d walk back.
For this excursion, our destination was a Korean restaurant that looked relatively new. It wasn’t exactly in what most people would consider “walking distance,” but considering that we’re both very talkative, the time and miles would drift by.
About a fourth of the way into our excursion, we spotted Cowboy Santa coming our way. Some people start with the Christmas activities before Halloween, but since Thanksgiving had just passed, this horseback Santa was appropriate for the season.
(I normally like much clearer pictures than this, but the blurry Bigfoot aspect of this photo adds to the mystique. Actually, this is much better quality than most of those Sasquatch pictures.)
Once we were mere blocks from our destination, I said, “What if this Korean restaurant is one of those pretentious places that aren’t open on Mondays?” Of course that turned out to be the case. After all, there must be some universal truth that if you cross paths with something seemingly unlikely, like Cowboy Santa, then that’s got to be coupled with something like an overly hip place not being open for dinner at dinner time.
True, we could have researched their hours of operation online, but then we would have chosen another restaurant, perhaps taken a different route and NOT crossed paths with Cowboy Santa.