Burgers, No Government and Rain

M and I went out to dinner on Friday, July 1st.  We wanted to go to Red Robin but when we got there it was beyond packed with a 30 minute wait so we took off and headed to downtown St. Paul.  We settled on Burger Moe's.  This was the second time we had been there and we didn't have the best experience the first time.  The service was really slow and food was just ok but we decided to have another try and again, the same bad experience.  The service was very slow again and M ordered a Kobe beef burger, which he's had many times before but never from here.  When he bit into it, it tasted nasty.  He took a couple more little bites and realized he just needed to send this back.  The server was apologetic and took his food away and M decided not to order anything more.  The server came back a couple of minutes later and told us that they had several complaints about the Kobe burger that same night!  They said they had just changed suppliers so she said that might have been part of the issue.  She probably shouldn't have offered that information about having multiple complaints that same evening but it did make M feel a little bit better that it wasn't just him with the issue.  After two terrible experiences, we will not be going back to Burger Moe's again!

When we left the restaurant, the sky was very dark.  We drove up by the Cathedral and just admired the ominous sky.  The rain started in huge drops right as we made our way back to our car and we experienced a down pour but no severe weather.  It was very fun to see the sky like that.  The pictures do not do justice to how black, exciting and scary the sky was. 

At the time of this writing, the government is still shut down!