Sunday, April 09, 2006

beef a roo.

oh my i have much to talk about. where to start? maybe i should write more than once a month...

well i guess the obvious place to start would be Beef - a - Roo.

i learned to make soap at a workshop at angelic organics.(what does soap have to do with beef you ask? - just wait and see ...) we used goat milk and i managed to spill the lye all over the place and got to meet some really cool cats and got a tour of the farm - which i just salivated over of course - they have a 2 story composting toilet, lots of handy machines, and a bright orange barn, as well as goats, chickens, horses and a dog named mango. after the lovely afternoon of soap making fun, almost the whole crew drove out to rockford (less than 10 miles away) to get dinner together. we were searching for a recomended indian restaurant, but ended up in strip mall hell where every place was either too shady or too corporate. after driving around in circles for a while and then setting off through the maze of parking lots on foot, still finding ourselves thwarted in our search for a decent bite to eat, we decided to fuck it and go to chillies - but alas - the chilis had a long wait this saturday night in rockford. so what does this famished team of soap making semi idealistic 20 somethings see off in the distance? Could that sign in front of that wooden lodge really say "Beef-a-roo"? It is rather far away. It must really say beef and ribs or something to that effect. No one would actually name a retaurant Beef-a-roo, would they? Well, either way it looks like a steak house and it looks locally owned and even though we all like organic veg, we all eat meat too, so off we go - on foot across the large sidewalkless intersection and down the street towards shining beacon of beef in the distance. As we get closer we see that it is in fact called The Northwoods Beef-a-roo. We start a cheer - Beef - a - roo - beef, beef - a - roo. i say beef you say roo -- you get the picture. as we entered the log cabinesque retaurant we immediatly realized why they laughed at us when we called and asked if they took reservations - it was a fast food restaurant, not unlike a locally owned arbys, but with a northwoods forest theme - complete with a stuffed brown bear and antler chandelier. i guess there are a series of different themed beef-a-roo's throughout rockford - including, but not limited to 50's diner theme and the firehouse beef-a-roo.

so it was a wonderful day of making new friends and bonding over soap and beef. i hope to hang out with them again soon. yay for new friends.