South Dakota Sunday

[vakkotaur]

Sunday I called melissasutton to make sure we'd agree on a time and place to meet for lunch. She suggested the HuHot Mongolian Grill. A couple hours later I was there, not too long after the agreed upon time (it took me longer than expected to get on the road).

The food was good and there was plenty of it, with a very good selection. I've been to a Mongolian place before, but that was in the Twin Cities and I'm not sure I could find it. This place is easy to get to since Sioux Falls is easily navigable.

I enjoyed the food and the good company of Duane and Melissa. It sounds like the Siouxland Renaissance Association is doing pretty good, considering things didn't go so well with the rainy, muddy festival earlier this year. I think we were all amazed that the Sioux City, IA folks are seriously considering putting on a second festival again this year. That's not "they did it last year and they're doing it again" but "they did it this Spring and will do it again this Fall."

Dessert was... big. I think if I go for any dessert there again I'll see about splitting the "cheesecake rangoon" a few ways. After that we all had things to do and so they went to deal with what they needed to do and I went and picked up my comics. The comics were unfortunately rather disappointing all around this month, and that was the only low of the trip.

On a whim I stopped at a supermarket in Brandon (town east of Sioux Falls) and looked around. Bought some Sioux City cream soda and such that I've not had for a while, some coconut juice to try, and a can of black-eyed peas (stinky beans!) for Jay. I still have quite a supply of licorice Altoids thanks to irpooh so I didn't get any more, but to my surprise I could have. Alas, they did not have any ginger Altoids or I'd have bought some.