Esmeralda Jimenez Block 2 8/9/03 "Big Bob's Place" It is five years later and I can still remember my first, and last, visit to Big Bob's Place. Stopping in to see if anyone could tell us where to locate the turn we had missed, my mom and I, saw the most disgusting place we had ever seen. I could tell my mother was in total disbelief because of her red face and the loud gagging sound coming …showed first 75 words of 935 total…

…showed last 75 words of 935 total…valuable lesson that day. The best part of being at Bob's is fortunately not his food, however; it is the feeling of being part of his extended family, being part of a tradition, when traditions and family togetherness are hard to come by. Even though we would never go back there, we now see the positive things in life no matter how hard we have to chisel away at the filthy exterior to find them.