The "Attack" & Breakfast

Last week Doug and I went to Rose Canyon to visit my mom. Doug decided to get a run in while we were there (maybe for a change a scenery). After getting a nice long run in, Doug starts approaching my parents house. As he gets closer he sees a boy and his dog about 30 yards away. He sees the dog start to run toward him with a ferocious bark, at that point he knows the situation is going to end with a casualty. With nowhere to run, Doug stops in his tracks as the ferocious dog approaches him. The dog quickly latches on to Doug's leg and rips into the skin. From Doug's account the dog latched on long enough to draw blood. During the "attack", Doug was yelling some choice words at the attacker, Buck, and his owner. As soon as Buck released, Doug quickly ran back to my parents.

Dog attack? I didn't think they really happen. Here I thought we were doing a favor for the dog community and this is how we are thanked? I don't really think that. It's just strange. As a dog owner now I am not sure what I would do if my dog attacked someone. The dog owner was eventually notified of the dog attack by Animal Control and is extremely apologetic.

I can't imagine the emotional stress that Doug might be going through, especially when he is approached by dogs.

Overall lesson, keep your dog on a leash!

On a lighter note, I want to talk about breakfast. We have been making it a weekly tradition to try a new breakfast restaurant once a week with our friends Katie and Josh. We have been doing it for a couple of weeks now and have tried a couple of new places.

Eggs in the City, located by Immigration Market in Sugarhouse, is fun little restaurant that I guess is supposed to be known for their eggs. I really liked the set up, it used to be an old gas station and the kitchen was completely open, which was cool because you could see how your food was being cooked. I wasn't too impressed with the food though. The eggs were not that great, I thought they were a bit soggy. The breakfast potatoes were okay, except they were a bit hard and undercooked. Most of the customers were hipster, tattooed, city-weekly reading types, which is cool, but I felt the restaurant was just another trendy hangout.

The Avenues Bakery, I loved it. The food was great! The menu was very simple and inexpensive. Whenever I go to breakfast restaurants, I usually want maybe some eggs, toast and home fries, most places have that, but you have to get it with bacon and pancakes. This place made it possible to mix and match what you want without charging you for food you don't want. The home fries were my favorite, a mixture of white and sweet potatoes with sauteed red peppers. They also had fresh jam on the table for the toast. Oh, that was another thing I loved, the bread. Being a bakery they had a great variety of bread to choose from. I got the orange cranberry, it was so good.

I don't think I will be returning to "Eggs in the City", but I plan on going back to "Avenues Bakery" many more times.