Places to Go// Larkin Square

If you're in Buffalove, head to Larkin Square next Tuesday for the last Food Truck Tuesday of the season! Great music, awesome food choices, and rad seating options all combine for a really great community feel and a hard-to-beat night out. I highly recommend the bacon mac'n'cheese from R&R BBQ.

Good Eats// Italian Festival

Stuffed hot banana pepper...out of this world amazing

Massive piece of sausage and pepperoni pizza

Portobello ravioli

Portobello ravioli again

Fried ravioli

"Leave the gun, take the canoli"

The Italian Festival is one of my favorite eating days of the year. I always go with my family and we always share as much as we can so we get to try a lot of different foods! Besides what's pictured above, we also had a steak and dandelion sandwich (so so so good!) and fried risotto with a hot pepper sauce (delicious). I forgot I had planned on taking pictures until after we scarfed both of those down. Oops!

We wanted to try lobster gnocchi but it wasn't ready yet. Everything we had was fantastic, but my favorites were the steak and dandelion sandwich and the stuffed hot pepper. I love festivals! Now I'm counting down the days till the Erie County Fair.

The Buffalo Zoo!

Today I went to the zoo with my family. I always have mixed feelings about zoos. It's fun to see the animals and I think it must be beyond awesome working with animals, but I always wonder how happy the animals really are, being enclosed and at the whim of humans. I can't imagine being locked in a cage or a definitively sized grassy enclosure. I would get so restless! I know that quite a few of the animals in zoos have been injured or are endangered and cannot return to the wild, but I wish we could give them more space and freedom to live and be. We decided that the peacocks have the best deal. They are in a safe environment, but are allowed to roam freely throughout the zoo to the excitement of visitors.

The animals were surprisingly active today. My favorite were the two baby polar bears!! So very cute <3 The one lost his momma in the wild when he was a cub and that's why he is in the zoo. He seemed kinda sad and he kept lightly chewing on his paw, seemingly to comfort himself. I wanted to cuddle him! Poor baby bear.