Mother's Day

We started out the day meeting Linda, Mom and Jacob at the Lourdes Grotto, because I mistakenly thought they were having a benefit lunch today - selling plates of Paella.  Where did I get that idea?  I saw it in the paper and I figured if it was in the Sunday Mother's Day paper, then it was for Mother's Day.  (I didn't read all the way to the date.)
Well, fortunately it was a cloudy and cool day, very pleasant for being outside.  We walked around the grounds there for a while after buying our meal tickets, but we were bewildered about why we saw no one eating anything, or why they hadn't set up any of the tables and chairs in the dining room.  So, after a while, Mom went up to this vendor who was selling bread, and asked him about the paella plates, and he told her, "Oh, that's NEXT weekend."  So, we look on the back of our tickets, and sure enough, it's next weekend.  Panic set in a little bit when we realized that we wanted our money back, because we did NOT want to come back next weekend.  We were so relieved when they refunded our money with no problem.  Both Linda and I were still stunned, though, because when we bought the tickets, and asked where the plates would be served, not ONCE did anyone ever say, "But remember, that's NEXT week."  We even talked to some guy in the parking lot about where the plates would be served and he told us, but he never said it was going to be held next week, either.
It was just as well, though, since the thought of standing in a line with all those people to get our plates wasn't very appealing, so we happily left and headed to Lion and Rose and enjoyed an appropriate Mother's Day lunch there.
After eating, we took these pictures outside the restaurant.