Celebrating Our 45th, Part 2: Dragon Donuts, Thrifting, And Other Things

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​CELEBRATING OUR 45TH, PART 2: DRAGON DONUTS, THRIFTING, AND OTHER THINGS

...Continued from yesterday:
       The following day, the day of our anniversary, we started off with breakfast from the hotel breakfast nook.

     Tom ordered the Original:

...while I had the Ranchero:

      We both agreed that our food was quite tasty, but kind of hard to eat as the meals were served in big red plastic drinking cups,

 ...and so had to be consumed  from the top down, in layers.
     We thought this a weird presentation, but then it occurred to us that maybe with the supply shortage the hotel kitchen might have run out of take-out bowls and had to make do with cups. The food was good, anyway.
​        After breakfast we decided to go for some dessert to the donut shop around the corner,

....Dragon Donuts.

     Interestingly, all the donuts were ring-shaped, even the cream- and jelly-filled ones.

      Tom had a cinnamon toast crunch donut, which he proclaimed over-the-top delicious,

...and I opted for a cream-filled glazed.

     Imagine a cream donut with cream in every bite.​ That's how awesome it was.
      It was quite a good thing that Tom and I enjoyed our donuts so much, considering what they cost.

     But we figured that it was, after all, our 45th wedding anniversary, and so mayhaps a little splurge was not altogether out of line.
  After our donuts we packed up and checked out of the Aloft (See yesterday's post  https://www.ailantha.com/blog/celebrating-our-45th-par-1-aloft),

...then we walked down the block to Macy's for a quick browse.

      From Macy's we headed out to do some shopping in earnest at the thrift store familiar to all serious Columbus, Ohio thrifters, the one located in the Columbus Square shopping center at the corner of Rt. 161 and Cleveland Avenue.

     After making our thrift store acquisitions we went next door to  an intriguing-looking store called Value Home Center, which offered some colorful and ornate furnishings.

      It occurred to me that my young grand daughters would love this store.    
​    Next we drove over to campus - which is how we locals refer to the neighborhood around the Ohio State University - to the Gateway Film Center, 

...where we caught a matinee of an award-winning Norwegian flick called "The Worst Person In The World" which was about...well, in truth I'm not exactly sure what it was about, but if you ever have the opportunity to see it, I strongly suggest that you give it a pass unless you enjoy watching a two-hour movie that feels like a four-hour movie.
     After our awful movie at the Gateway we decided to head back to Easton (See yesterday's post) for an early dinner. We were struck by how crowded the mall was considering that the COVID epidemic, though down, is still not out.

      We guessed that people must be jonesing to get out as much we were.
      We had dinner at Brio,      

...which was likewise considerably crowded even at the early dinner hour.

     However the service was nonetheless surprisingly speedy and the food was great. Tom had salmon topped with all kinds of yummy things,

...and I had a wedge of iceberg lettuce also topped with yummy things,

...and a bowl of lovely lobster bisque.

    After dinner we decided to go find some dessert so we stopped at Giant Eagle and procured ourselves an anniversary cake which we brought home,

...and dove into while catching up on the Saturday papers.

      Then we spent Saturday night watching a movie on TV, just like an old married couple.