Me and a few co-workers like to go out for lunch, generally on fridays under various names… be it the exclusive FLC (Friday Lunch Club), Fried Rice Friday (at the food court in Northpark Mall), and the latest incarnation… Friday Thai-Day.

Against my wishes some fellow employees tried out the new Piya Thai Food restaurant in Webb City earlier in the week without me. They like it so we decided to select it for the site of this friday’s lunch. It’s in the old building that long time WC residents will know as the former Dairy Queen near the intersection of McArthur and Madison. It has also more recently been the House of Hu (Who??) Chinese food. I remember what a dump the old dairly queen was, so I am quite impressed with how it looks now.

It’s a small place with maybe 6 tables, but the service was friendly, the food was excellent and prices we reasonable. We each had a lunch special for $5.95. I had the pad thai and we all shared some custard dessert and friend bananas, both of which were awesome. Pictured is Adam’s classic fried rice. So if you like thai food, you no longer have to drive all the way to the south part of Joplin to get it! This is clearly an obvious candidate for my official seal of approval.

PS – Avoid the ground chilli powder they bring out to the table unless your name is Jimmy or find pleasure in excessive mouth pain. I’m pretty sure my tongue is still bleeding a little.

Since I was spending the weekend in St Louis with Hannah and her fam, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make the 15 minute trip over to the dome to watch my former high school compete for the class 4 state championship. To be honest, I was fairly surprised that this years team made it that far, but apparently they knew what it took to get things done.

This championship game was more exciting than other ones I have been to recently. When I was in high-school, the game was a blowout 44-14 victory and the last time I went it was an agonizing 1 point loss following a missed 2 point conversion. This year the cardinals played Jefferson City Helias in a fast paced back and forth game that was up for grabs throughout it’s entirety…literally. It wasn’t over until a cardinal reached up and grabbed an interception with about a minute and a half left in the game.

I always find it impressive to see just how many people make the nearly 5 hour trip to St Louis to watch the game. This year was no exception, with what appeared to be the entire town sitting in the stands. I heard there were some carthage players and fans sitting on the webb city side and cheering for Helias, but I didn’t see them so I can’t confirm this. Knowing how so many Carthage people hate WC more than they like their own team it wouldn’t surprise me.

All in all it was a great game and a fun weekend!