Treehouse Restaurant

The Treehouse Restaurant gets its own blog entry because WE ATE IN A TREE!  AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHTENING AND THUNDER DIRECTLY OVERHEAD!!!

The restaurant was set up on the second floor, amongst the branches of a huge fig tree.  A sign at the bottom of the trunk proclaimed that this was one of the Top 10 Bizarre Restaurants in the world.  A metal staircase spiraled around the trunk to the second floor, where a balcony of tables was set around half of the tree.  The other half was surrounded by the covered part of the restaurant -- the kitchen and two rooms of tables.

We sat right on the edge of the covered canopy and looked out into the branches and the trunk of the tree.  A local band played soft rock covers in the corner.  I had a DELICIOSO meal of rice, beans, plantains, roasted vegetables, and avocado salad.  In the middle of our dinner, it started pouring rain and lightening and thunder.  At some point, a huge crack of thunder and lightening went off directly overhead.  Or at least, that's what it felt like.  Every person in the tree jumped.  It was scary!

Then, we took a bottle of wine home to enjoy in our hotel room.  The first attempt at opening the bottle broke the corkscrew right off of my tiny little Swiss Army knife.  We then tried the screwdrivers (both Phillips and flathead) to get the corkscrew (and cork) out of the bottle.  Sean the Eagle Scout used the curved end of a hanger to wiggle the cork around and pull it out.  Yum, yum, yum!  I drank my wine in the bath and almost fell asleep.