What happens when you get 3 cousins together for a week or so in the summer in Small Town, PA?? My brother, cousin and me would spend our time making up all sorts of games and traditions. It's amazing how only seeing each other a few times a year how we could pick up right where we left off. We would make forts from card tables, benches and couch pillows. We would rummage through the attics and find all sorts of old "stuff" that was so interesting, we would wake up EARLY in the morning to try and beat my grandmother to the kitchen (we only made it once), but the one thing we did EVERY single time was to create our resturant: Cocktail Cafe  (and if anyone was wondering it IS named after the Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail....I hadn't seen it but I owned the soundtrack).

In my grandparent's basement there was a little kitchenette, stocked with old dishes, pans, and some fake food type decorations.

 We even wrote out our whole menu to serve our parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts. One of us was the cook, one the host and one the server. We also had a taxi- it consisted of a stationary bike and an old bench. I still remember the time my grandmother fell backward off the bench- she was a good sport and still stayed for 'dinner'

I believe one year we set up a casino as well.  But back to our menu- here I am being served my dinner. It was a very yummy steak....we got very good at balancing our trays on one hand too, too bad I never worked in a real restaurant to use that skill...

And finally: Our masterpiece of a sign to introduce our business:

 Wouldn't you like to come and eat cast iron steak, plastic grapes, a wooden pork chop, and any drink you could possibly imagine as long as you don't mind it tasting like air???

Looking back I wonder how much we annoyed our family running upstairs begging for them to come and eat....but I could talk forever about the times spent in Millville, PA....there are so many good memories there.....

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