“Excuse me,” the man said, in his most plaintive tone, “I notice that the party of fourteen on the terrace just left. We requested terrace seating because we have two dogs with us. Do you know how long it will be?”
The Skyland dining room host mumbled something mostly inaudible, and promised to let him know when a table outside was available.
Next I heard a girl with the young family of five scrunched together on the sofa ask her mother, “What shall we do in the meantime?” I thought that was a very sophisticated sentence for her age, and she asked it so calmly, too.
This is Opening Weekend at Skyland Lodge in Shenandoah National Park. We ventured up early this afternoon, Brian and I, to hike Limberlost Trail today and another easy hike, TBD, tomorrow morning.
We are celebrating his six week post-op clearance for the lumbar laminectomy that has restored his ability to walk painlessly again. Hiking is one of his passions, and Shenandoah National Park is one of our happy places.
It’s just hard to be truly happy when the dinner wait is one whole hour. But surely we are near the top of the list by now.
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