We Were Too Full for Second Breakfast...

Denny's is currently running a Hobbit themed menu in conjunction with the upcoming Hobbit movie and my friend Gabi and I decided that we really wanted to sample the Middle Earth fare.  Our only problem was that we apparently live in the only town in the country that doesn't have a Denny's within five minutes.  We had to make a special trip up to Lakeside Mall just to get some Hobbit food.  It was worth it, though.

We started off with red velvet pancake bites.  I have no idea how these relate to the Hobbit (or to pancakes, for that matter), but they were far too tasty for me to care.  Then I ordered a Hobbit Slam, which was by far the best thing I've ever gotten to say while ordering in a restaurant.  My Hobbit Slam (!) came with pumpkin pancakes and lemon seed cake french toast.  The pancakes were amazing.  I'm pretty obsessed with pumpkin, so I might be a little biased, but they were heavenly.  The seed cake, on the other hand, wasn't so good.  It was ok, though, because that left my stomach free to hold even more of the pumpkin pancakes.

All in all, it was a good day.  Especially since I discovered that I had my copy of The Hobbit in my purse.  Naturally, I had to pose for a picture with it and my pancakes.  Now they can live on in my memory forever and ever.  One of my other friends asked if we had eaten Second Breakfast, but I was so full from our Hobbit feast that I barely ate for the rest of the day.  Yum.

Hobbit Day...

Happy Hobbit Day, fellow Tolkien fans!  Today is said to be the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, so pass around the cake and have an extra helping of Second Breakfast to celebrate.  If you're really ambitious, you could have a fireworks display in honor of the holiday, but that could be awkward to try to explain to your neighbors.  Maybe it's best to just go barefoot as a tribute.

We're only a few months away from the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as well, so we've also got that to celebrate.  It's a great time to lend your copy of The Hobbit to a friend who's never read it so they can get up to speed for the movie release (if you're one of those people who's comfortable parting with their books).  At any rate, it's a great excuse to pay another visit to Middle Earth and revel in the glory of the stories that have come out of it.