The Cave Tapas Bar & Lounge

There is a newish tapas restaurant near my girlfriend Tina's house that she has been talking about a lot recently. It is called The Cave. They have shadow dancing on Tuesdays where girls dance behind a screen to music and all you can see are their shadows. It sounded kind of neat, so I have been wanting to check it out for awhile now.

www.thecavetapasbar.com

The night definitely started out badly. I was on my way and my car started making a rattling noise. The rattling quickly turned into rattling and squealing. All of the sudden, my power steering went out and all the lights in my dash started blinking on and off! The next thing I know my car is over heating, so I pulled into a the first parking lot I came to which was a church. Maybe it was a sign from God that I am supposed to be in church. Maybe. Maybe not. My friend Brian that was meeting us came to pick me up and I decided just to go ahead to the tapas place since there really wasn't anything we could do until morning.

We got to The Cave and I was impressed with how nice the interior looked. There were tables with couches as well as others with chairs. They serve free nachos on Tuesdays nights, so I started with those and drank my current favorite beer--Yuengling. The nachos were good, especially since they were free. ;) Then I ordered the fried green tomatoes and those were awesome. I thought they were slightly greasy looking when they first arrived, but the taste made me forget about it. This is one of my favorite appetizers, so I can often be a little overly critical, but I thought it was great. It was topped with goat cheese, red tomatoes, and a pepper sauce. Anything involving goat cheese is likely going to be a winner in my book. The atmosphere was good and it was a slightly older crowd and I totally prefer that.

When it was time to go, Brian gave me a ride back to my van to collect some of my things and was going to take me home. We passed by a lake with a fountain in the middle and he suggested we stop and check it out. I am always up for an adventure, so I agreed. We saw a good climbing tree while walking down to the lake and got distracted by that for awhile. I also love climbing trees. It just doesn't matter how old I get. Then he said to me, "Do you see what I see?" I looked over and saw several canoes on the shore of the lake. Guess what we did? Oh yes. Hijacked (borrowed) a canoe and paddled around this lake in Kennesaw for about an hour. Definitely an experience to remember. Who does stuff like that?