Springfield Southside Outing with Haley

I enjoyed another Monday afternoon with my good friend Haley Kilburn, this time in the Deep Southside of Springfield.

We started with a delicious lunch at Mully's Pub & Patio, the pub restaurant that replaced Galloway Station.  We ordered two appetizers: Irish Nachos and Truffle Parmesan Fries.  Both were delicious, but especially the Nachos.  They had the kind of beer cheese that tasted similar to that which Dublin's Pass served with their buckets of chips and fries back in the 2010s.  (That's why that Irish pub was one of my favorite restaurants in town in my adolesence.)

2025-11-03 1206 hours - Autism Buddies Haley & Brady Enjoy Lunch Together at Mully's Pub & Patio in the Southside of Springfield
2025-11-03 1207 hours - Irish Nachos & Truffle Parmesan Fries at Mully's Pub & Patio

After a big lunch, we strolled down to Architect Coffee Company.  We both enjoyed a "Chagaccino," an espresso mushroom coffee drink.  (Here's an interesting fact.  Before I got hired at Mercy Hospital Springfield and moved in close enough there, Architect was one of the various places I really loved, besides several others such as Sakura Japanese Restaurant, CoxHealth, and the Nature Center, that made the Southside my top choice of subregion to move to.)

We burned off all that food and coffee with a nice walk to Schaible Lake Park.  We were not only quintessentially relaxed there, but we were truly endowed with the colors of the trees.

2025-11-03 1404 hours - Autism Buddies Haley & Brady Enjoy Coffee Together at Architect Coffee Company
2025-11-03 1403 hours - Two SEASONAL Chagaccinos at Architect Coffee Company

We burned off all that food and coffee with a nice walk to Schaible Lake Park.  We were not only quintessentially relaxed there, but we were truly endowed with the colors of the trees.

2025-11-03 1437 hours - Autism Buddies Brady & Haley on the Bridge of Fremont Avenue above James River Freeway
2025-11-03 1452 hours - Yellow-Orange & Yellow Trees along Bradford Parkway across from Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1500 hours - Haley's Heart Hands at Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1507 hours - Autism Buddies Haley & Brady at Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1514 hours - Small Cairn on the Small Waterfall Fountain at Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1517 hours - Stormwater Runoff Area at Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1544 hours - Sun Shining Behind Yellow Trees at Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1548 hours #1 - Yellow-Orange Tree on Bradford Parkway across from Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1548 hours #2 - Red & Yellow-Orange Tree on Bradford Parkway afront Schaible Lake Park
2025-11-03 1615 hours - Orange Tree next to CoxHealth Signs on the Bradford Park side of National Avenue