Birthday Breakfast for mom=creepy dining

This year for mom's birthday her kids decided that we would take her out to eat. Her choice was to celebrate by going to Cafe des Amis in Breaux Bridge for breakfast and dancing. My mom loves to dance and this would be the perfect place to be since the setting is a live Zydeco band and lots of people cuttin a rug. Me, mom, and my sister rode in together to meet up with my brothers and had a good few laughs on the way in. As we are driving in mom thinks she sees my brother Danny so in her excitement she totally rolls down the window yelling at him come to find out not so much my brother. When we get there we find out there's a wait that will be over an hour, but we go in hang out enjoy some music. Mom got in a couple of dances with my brother which I'm sure made her day. Dancing to mom is described as making her soul smiling. Anyway well at one point we decided ok let's just go next door to this other restuarant to eat and we will be able to talk and hear each other. Seems like this would be easy right? It was not at all what we thought it would be.

The restuarant is on the same little strip of where antique shops are so you know the place is rather aged to say the least. We walk in and you can smell the mold it was quite stuffy. I went to the bathroom immediately. Later on in conversation I find out that mom made a remark that it was stuffy and we would rather sit outside. This was unacceptable to the staff,b /c according to them it was too hot for them to go outside and wait on us. Um ok so why the false advertisement with the outside seating? I don't get it. Our table was in the center of the room. Behind me was this big, weird plastic, starburst looking thing that was most probably used in a kid's science project at some point. Directly across from me on the wall was this painting of a creature that could totally have starred in the 80s movie the Labrynth. Trust me I love the movie, but I don't want to dine with a character. To the right of me is this older woman sitting there repeatedly picking at bread and putting the crumbs in a big bag. Have you ever seen a scary movie where the person just committed murder and they are sitting in a chair rocking back and forth doing a repeative movement? Yea that was her with the bread and the crazy stare that looks right through you. All these subtle things are going on in the background while we are enjoying our time together laughing and visiting with one another. At some point I had to wonder to myself if anyone was actually in the kitchen cooking 1. it took over 45 minutes to cook breakfast 2. no noise was coming from that area. The food finally came out I had eggs, bisquit, tator tots, Danny had sweet potatoe pancakes, Mom/Tonja had egg omelet with crawfish and Robby didn't eat due to an upset tummy. I asked the server if she had ketchup oh sure she said she comes back and plops a bowl in which she has poured a huge blob of ketchup in. Nice and totally trustworthy I'm sure. We are all eating and I guess it was the owner who came up to our table, b/c it wasn't our server. She looks at mom and asks do you not like your food in which mom being honest responds not really. The next thing that comes out of this woman's mouth is a total jaw dropper for me....she tells mom: SHAME ON YOU SHAME that crawfish is fresh. All my mom could say was maybe I should've not said that and asked for a to go box and the woman was like yeah you should've. That customer service for this "fine dining" was amazing truly. I can't believe it!

I feel like after I left that place I needed to watch a scary movie to make myself feel better. Don't get me wrong this experience was a trip and I enjoyed my time with my family. I will never forget this day and the experience we had.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM....SHAME ON YOU!