At the Border

On Monday night, we went to On the Border restaurant at Jordan Creek Mall in West Des Moines. A lot of people in my family were there. We were there because people from Mississippi were in Iowa. We were at one big table. 


The first thing I saw on the table was chips and salsa. The chips were big! And when I ate a lot of chips with salsa then my tongue started burning. There was no drinks at my table so I had to eat a lot of chips to make it go away. 

I ordered a combo that was chicken tortilla soup, beef empanadas and a fish taco. I was starving!! And that was the only soup they had and I really like soup, so that's why I ordered it. The food came really slow. We ate a lot of chips while waiting. The restaurant was really noisy inside. It took a long time to get the food.

When the food came the soup had chips and a big avocado in it! It also had some chicken and cheese. It was really, really, really delicious because all the flavors of the avocado, and the chips were crispy. The meat was kind of spicy and the cheese was gooey. I ate all of it.

Next I tried my rice. It was really dry. Then I ate one of my beef empanadas. It had cheese sauce I could dip it in, and it had cheese inside already and taco meat. It was delicious because I liked the combination of cheese and meat. An empanada is like a crab rangoon but it doesn't have mushed up crab inside. It's crunchy and crispy. I didn't eat my fish taco, but I took it home. I just ate it for breakfast. It had fried fish inside, some cheese and vegetables. It tasted good. It was OK tasting as a leftover.

Everyone is eating and drinking in this picture. They forgot one of the persons at my tables food. So that person didn't get to eat when we did. I thought it was crazy because everyone else's food came. My brother didn't get his drink or his ice cream sundae either. So the service at the restaurant isn't very good because they forget a lot of things. 

 Then we went to watch geese and ducks and we fed them food. We could go right outside the restaurant to see the geese and ducks. When I was trying to feed a piece of meat to a duck, it jumped right up and tried to get it! I thought that was funny. We kept feeding the geese and ducks and then we went home.

Restaurant rating: Thumb sideways (just OK)
You should go to On the Border in West Des Moines, Iowa, and you should get a taco or something. It's kind of a good place for kids but maybe you should just go as an adult.

Mini Reviews: Sushi Monday and Fishy Thursday

Sushi Monday
This week I'm having break from school and I started swimming lessons. Today we went to a park and had lunch. That's pretty much all we did. I ate a sandwich -- actually a tortilla with roast beef and cucumbers. And I had some cheesy tortilla chips. For dessert I had an ice cream sundae at Sonic. Mmmm. The vanilla ice cream had chocolate sauce on top of it. I really liked that. And I always like vanilla and chocolate flavors combined together. Bo's spilled a lot. He spilled it on his pants. Oh gosh.

After swimming lessons, I went home and we had supper. But there was sushi. And you know how I like sushi. But it was big sushi. It was in a tofu wrapping with rice, spicy sauce and a big shrimp inside. It tasted really good. It was different from other sushi because it was bigger than normal sushi and it wasn't seafood that surrounded it. Here's a picture of me eating it and a picture of it:

Fishy Thursday
Last Thursday I was having a presentation about fish and aquatic life. I was a piranha. Everyone had a shadow puppet they would move and it would make a shadow. I talked about what a piranha looked like, what they ate, where they lived, what ate them, how they laid their eggs and protect them, and if they ate humans and how much they kill you. They don't kill many people a year. Like four.

After that I went to the Marine Biology Lab up in my school and I saw lots of creatures with my dad Shawn. After we went to the lab, Shawn had to leave so me and my mom went to Taco John's because there was a new fish taco that I wanted to try. I ordered two. they were unusually small but there was a lot of stuff inside and I could squeeze fresh lime on it. The hot sauce had too many ingredients on the packet -- things that weren't so good for you like salt and other things. And for dessert I got a churro. A churro was a big crispy stick of bread covered with sugar. It tasted really good like a cookie kind of except much longer and you should check out the two new YouTube videos of me at Taco John's -- Mazy Hanson Reviews Taco John's Part 1 and Mazy Hanson Reviews Taco John's Part 2. And also check out the day when Violet was born.