A Gorgeous Tractor Factory

Last night hubby and I went out for dinner to The Old Spaghetti Factory in Minneapolis. I had heard of it many times, but never been there. I had no idea what I was missing all these years! What a beautiful place! It is an old, converted Case Tractor factory. The furniture they have in there is fantastic - big, ornately carved wooden pieces and fancy chairs. You can see a bit of that in this picture of the entry way. Some people walked in front just as I snapped, so you can't see much of the huge front desk where they check you in.

There are stained glass windows everywhere, too. I bet those guys (and hopefully some gals) who built tractors never dreamed how pretty and clean their building would one day become. I'm sure they didn't enjoy ornate furniture and stained glass windows like we did last night.

The food was fantastic, too. I keep forgetting to get a picture of a food experience in a great restaurant. Food pictures are hard to do, but one of these days I want to remember to try.

After dinner we went to a play at the Guthrie. Not my favorite play, and it was long - 3 hours - so I was tired when we finally got home. No quilty pictures yet, but I'm hoping to get a little done today. I just did some yard work (uffda! pulling weeds is hot work!) so I think I've earned some sewing time now.

I hope you are having a fun weekend, doing something you love!