Monday, July 27, 2009

Benjamin's Restaurant

A whole post just about a restaurant? Of course! Especially when the restaurant is this cool and shares a name with our Benjamin!

Welcome to the world famous Benjamin's Calabash Seafood!


We took some pictures of Benjamin with his name signs, couldn't pass up the opportunity!


Down stairs is a workshop where a man (sadly I cannot remember his name) who hand builds all these model ships they had displayed throughout the restaurant. It takes him hundreds of hours and he made everything himself, by hand! Even the people and the tiny rope! Nick was fascinated (anyone who knows Nick would not be surprised by this), so he hung out for a long time while the nice craftsman taught Nick about his trade.


They also had a fun playroom downstairs with TONS for the kids to do and make-believe!
This row boat is on a waterbed frame and mattress. "Whoa! It's a wild sea tonight!"

At the end we decided it would be fun to take a picture of Nathan "playing dentist" on a fake shark outside. So this is how we were taking the picture. I was talking to him, telling him where to put his hands so it would look just right...(notice Nathan is nowhere near the shark!)

And this is how the picture turned out! Pretty good, heh! (click on the picture to enlarge it so you can see just how real it looks!)

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