Gluten Moon Begins

On Friday we kicked off the gluten-eating binge in proper fashion, getting two medium pizzas from a favourite local pizzeria. The crusts there are so thick and tasty, it is definitely the sort of thing you can't get gluten-free.



We followed that up on Saturday by eating French toast for lunch and hitting up Wendy's for dinner -- that is hardly "easing" back into eating gluten, but we were out watching the SuperTrain exhibition and there was a Wendy's just across the street.

Scott really enjoyed the SuperTrain exhibition, although he is hardly the train fanatic that he was last year at this time. He has diversified his interests into things like trucks, cars, soccer balls and Spiderman, but he still loves to watch a train in motion.

The exhibition was mainly hobbyists (often representing hobby stores) who were displaying their very elaborate train models for the benefit of other hobbyists and young children. It was interesting to be an event that is primarily focused on elderly men and young boys. There are few such venues.

While boys seem to gravitate toward trains, there was plenty to captivate the interest of any child -- including a huge play area stocked with Thomas the Tank Engine tracks and trains. Apparently, there are three such play areas at a hobby shop in the small town of Nanton, Alberta (this shop provided the toys for the expo). We drive through Nanton every time we go to the US to visit family, so we should add that one to our list of possible stopping points.

Another such point is the gluten-free pizza restaurant in Okotoks. You see how all this fits together. Gluten-free pizza and trains are very closely connected. In fact, we picked up some prepackaged frozen gluten-free pizzas from Coco Brooks to try, since it was only 3 blocks from the SuperTrain show.

It must be the Gluten Moon.