A Wednesday Night in January, just after 6 PM. It's already pitch black out, but a fat, full moon is rising over the mountains. I'm sitting in the back seat of my mother's SUV. Sis is riding shotgun, and to my right a sleeping toddler is strapped into a booster seat. We're in Eagle and looking for
MickeyRay's Roadhouse BBQ, a place my mother has heard really good things about and has been wanting to try for some time now. We're lost.
A co-worker had instructed my mother to take State Street in Eagle and go towards Star, and assured her that we couldn't miss it, but as we found ourselves nearly
in Star we knew that wasn't the case. Mom tries unsuccessfully to reach a couple of people on the phone who might have a computer handy and therefore be able to feed us directions, and I'm trying to remember the phone number that was given so prominently on the website when I was perusing the menu earlier. I punch 939-RIBS into my phone, and after several rings I end up at a nondescript voicemail prompt. Surprised, I disconnect the call. Just as I'm thinking how certain I had been about the number, my phone rings. The caller ID shows the call coming from the same number I had just tried. I answer the phone, and the man on the other end goes immediately into his spiel, something about it being "a great day at MickeyRay's" and inviting me to "come gitcha a little sumpin' sumpin'" if I recall correctly. He says all of this as if he had answered the phone when I called rather than having called me back. I ask him where the restaurant is located, and he says it's on
Old State Street. We backtrack to where State Street splits off from the highway and take it back toward Star, and sure enough we find it almost immediately. I'm already a little disconcerted because I've forgotten my camera and have to use the crappy one on my phone, and in the process of trying to get the now awake but still groggy toddler safely from the car to the restaurant, I forget to snap a picture of the front of the restaurant and have to use a copy of their logo here...