02.11.2012: Dinner at Spaghetti Factory & Mission Inn

After Dad got home and we all got to rest for a bit, we got ready to head out to dinner at the Spaghetto Factory in Old Town Riverside.  While we were getting ready, we heard on the news that Whitney Houston had died.  Wierd how that was a significant moment that I remember from that night...all dressed & ready to go and all of us standing in the living room watching the news of her death.

Anyways, we headed out to dinner!  It was a surprisingly very good dinner!  I hadn't been there in ages....especially to the Riverside one....and it isn't somewhere that I even think of going often, but the food was really good.  The atmosphere there is always interesting with all the railcars in the restaurant, since they are usually all built inside old train stations.  And Ray & Lois had never been so it was neat for them too.

After dinner, we drove over to the Mission Inn and walked around.  They had never been there either...and Vince had only been once before but we hadn't walked around anywhere.  So we took the opportunity to walk around all over the Mission and take in all the beautiful views and architecture.  Mom and Dad even showed us where they took prom pics (or maybe it was homecoming??)  Shelly and Tina also both got married in the chapel there.  It was very cool spending some time walking around there and it was a perfectly gorgeous evening!!  If we weren't so full and tired, we would have crashed the wedding reception going on there and made some new friends :)  But we didn't, and headed home!