My mum called tonight. I've been a stranger.
The minute I answer the phone, D'anjou charges towards me. It's a full tilt crawl, accompanied by shrieks of happiness and lots of drool.
"Do you hear that?...oh..oh...poop running down the leg! Call you back!"
This is how it goes.
We made it down to Old Town San Diego over the weekend. Erm...quaint (in a tourist-y you could buy this stuff for a tenth of the cost if you drove down to Mexico kind of way), lots of old stuff...buildings, wagons, historical re-enactors on their smoke break. Actually, we weren't there for the old stuff (plus, it's California, so old is only the 1800s, and that's really not all that old). We had heard the Old Town Rootbeer Company has a perpetual buy one, get one free rootbeer float special. We like root beer. We like ice cream. We like saving money.
Except when we got out of the car, it looked very much like the Old Town Rootbeer Company was closed. For good. For lease signs in the windows and all that.
Might as well look at some old stuff. Like poorly maintained graveyards. Mini-pear was distressed at the lack of ice cream at the end of our journey. So after a dutiful look around the dusty square, we found some adequate ice cream and a shady spot and listened to a Peruvian pipe band long enough to hear it cover Simon and Garfunkel. Ouch. Time to go. As we walked back to the car, feeling slightly sticky and overly full of cold dairy on a warm afternoon, we noticed that the Old Town Rootbeer Company was not, in fact, out of business. It shared a building with a couple of other businesses that were no longer doing so well, but there it was...and we were full.
Damnit. We did come home with a mixed six pack of microbrewed rootbeers to taste test, but we will have to go back for our floats.
oh my!...hide the dog bowls.....he's coming and he means business!
Hope Mini's not in a hurry to get out of town, I guess the horses bolted!
Posted by: mater & Pater (the old 'pear') | June 19, 2009 at 04:58 AM
Ohhh, root beer floats are genius! I'm going to the store RIGHT NOW!
Posted by: Deb | June 19, 2009 at 08:29 AM
Oh my! He is on the loose! That is the funniest pic!
We stopped going to Old Town but love the Heritage Park nearby....they sometimes have ice-cream for free there (and it's home-made)!
Posted by: Dawn | June 19, 2009 at 06:29 PM
What a cute attack baby you have.
Posted by: Rebecca H. | June 21, 2009 at 09:30 AM