Overheard at a Mexican Restaurant...

...if you were at a table next to us tonight.

"This isn't good food, mom.  It is cheesy and fantastic!"  And after learning the Spanish word for "fantastic", Little C said "fantastico" in a variety of voices for about 27 minutes straight.

"Wanna hear a joke?" says Big C.  We all reply in the affirmative.  "So this guy walks up to a counter full of candy jars.  All of the lids say 25 cents.  The guy pays the person a quarter and picks a jar and then he dumps all the candy on the floor.  The person says, 'Hey! What are you doing?'  And the guy replies, 'What? The price on the jar was 25 cents!'  Ha!  Get it!  He thought he was buying the jar!"  (He made that one up on the fly.  It helps that he is half-way through reading The Complete Far Side.  Sort of gives him a point of reference.)

Miss M: Hey mama?

Mama: Yes M?

Miss M: When we get home can we cuddle up and brainstorm?

Mama: Yes, baby.

Not to be missed on the walls of this restaurant are some very colorful murals.  Colorful palettes and colorful subject matter.  My favorite one is the two singing caballeros.  However, tonight we sat near the Aztec temple.  The scene is from a mountain top, looking down on this very geometrically laid out town with walls and pyramids.  On this mountaintop are two people.  An almost-clad young woman kneeling, and a sort-of covered young warrior standing over her, with a shield and what I think is a club of some sort.  I have always wondered if she was a captive or an offering.  The context is a bit limited so it is hard to say for certain.  So...Little C and Big C are staring at the mural and crunching chips with their mouths open (they have stuffy noses so I cut them some slack).  The people around us start giggling at the sight of these two young boys assumed to be ogling the young captive/offering.  Then the following comments come from the boys:

First Little C says, "Mama?  Look at her.  By the bottom part.  Do you think that rock she is sitting on is the top of the mountain?"  Big C follows up with a running commentary on the symmetry of the settlement.  Wondering what this civilization was and what materials they used to build their dwellings.  Were they sand or stone?  Did they build them the same way as the Egyptians and were the pyramids as big as the ones in Giza?  I LOVE MY NERDLINGS!!!!!