By Kiran Jayasinghe
After sleeping in until 10:30 (pretty late, huh?), we walked to the River Ranch again. Only, this time, we were going to play miniature golf. Well, really, we were going to play tennis, but every single court was booked up, so we decided to play miniature golf instead. There were eighteen holes. To get through all eighteen, took us about TWO HOURS! Can you believe it? We tried to get our dad to play another round but we had no luck.
We went back to our hotel room, had some lunch and settled in for some board games. We played “Blokus” and chess, in which I won. The my sisters and I, also made-up a game using chess pieces, which we called “kingdoms”. We had fun coming up with the rules for this game and playing a few rounds.
After our games we took a stroll around the resort. We hadn’t explored the hotel yet. We walked past a couple of pools they have for each of the buildings in the resort, looked into Rico’s American Grill (a restaurant on the premises), and bought hot chocolate in the main lobby building. After we went back to our room our grandparents decided to take us out for dinner to celebrate our birthdays. Mom looked on the internet for interesting places to eat, and we finally settled on Aunt Chilada’s. Aunt Chilada’s has a rich history. The land that the restaurant is on has had some sort of business for over a hundred years! It used to be a place where miners working in the mercury mines and smelters stayed. Before that there used to be a general store. To learn more about the restaurant’s history, check out Aunt Chilada’s website.
We, the kids, ordered cheese quesadillas, our mom and grandparents had burritos, and our dad had some kind of very messy, and very spicy dish, called the Jalapeño Steak Fajita (fa-hee-ta). It had a bunch of Jalapeños. I don’t know how he ate it! He said it was very good. I also tried the shrimp tacos, which can only be described by one word: scrumptious! Then we drove sleepily back to the resort. We took a warm shower, put our pajamas on, and collapsed into bed.