Nick and I stayed up last night watching WipeOut, and both fell asleep with Tristan in between us. So, he got to sleep all night with us. He did wake up around 5 AM starving, so I cleverly went to put him in his bed after he was done eating. Only Rajah got needy and stood outside his bedroom door meowing. "Please don't wake up, please don't wake up!" I rocked back and forth with Tristan in the rocking chair. Then I hear from the room next door, "Rajah, shut up!" I guess Will wasn't too fond of her yowling either. Eventually she went away and I put Tristan in his crib and went back to bed. Five hours later, Tristan woke us back up.
So, what did we do? We had bacon and eggs for breakfast, and decided to go fishing in town to celebrate the holiday. Nick fly fished while Tristan and I strolled around the bike trail. Nick caught a very large trout within a few minutes! Tristan got hungry pretty fast too. Luckily, he breastfed right away and didn't embarrass the poop out of me in public. He had one of his superior melt downs in the mother's lounge at church on Sunday, ripping off my shield and exposing me to the other ladies…….and kept right on screaming. And they all had advise to give as I am trying to calm my shrieking child that I'm sure the other ward in Sacrament Meeting could hear. Anyhoo!
After fishing for another hour or so, Nick asked what I wanted to do next. What's my favorite? Ice cream! We got in the car and drove over to Cold Stone. I love going there, they have the best flavors and make super good milk shakes. Nick rarely gets his own, he just shares with me, but this time we were both going to get shakes.
Perfect, no line. We walk up to the guy behind the counter, and he says, "What can I get you?" Nick looks at the flavors and says, "I'll take a love it sized peanut butter and cheese cake milk shake please." Then he takes Tristan and goes to sit down at a table while I make my order. The guy behind the counter walks away without asking what I want to make Nick's shake. So, I wait patiently. Then I see the guy taking scoop after scoop of chocolate ice cream and putting it in the blender. I look over at Nick confused and motion for him to come over. He just shakes his head and says, "Is he making yours?" I said, "no, did you ask for chocolate?" Meanwhile, a line is forming behind me. Nick walks up and says, "hey, what are you making?" The guy, well, more of a kid, looks at me like Patrick from Spongebob and picks up a cheat sheet from behind the bar. "I asked for peanut butter and cheesecake…" Nick says. The kid, holding the paper, walks over to another guy, I assume to be the manager and asks him something. "Oh yeah, use chocolate," the manager says. "No, I just wanted peanut butter and cheese cake ice cream in a milk shake," Nick says, becoming frustrated. "Oh yeah, you can make a custom shake," the manager says, scooping the chocolate ice cream from the blender and putting in back in the tub. It had already been soaked by milk….. Nick looks at me like, are you kidding? "Just start over," the manager tells the kid, and then turning to me asks, "and what can I get you?" So I point very obviously and say "I would like peanut butter and sweet cream…" and before I can finish he asks, "In a waffle cone?" and I say, "no, as a milk shake….." So he scoops up a bunch of sweet cream ice cream and goes to blend it. But before I can tell him he's forgotten the peanut butter, Nick runs up and says "NO! I said JUST cheesecake and peanut butter ICE CREAM!" I look and see the manager scooping globs of peanut butter, like for sandwiches, into the blender. And he looks at me and says, "I'm sorry, did you want peanut butter in your shake too?" By this point we are completely aghast at their service, and I say, "No, just the two ICE CREAM flavors, blended, as a shake!" Nick is fed up though and says, "You know what? Don't worry about it, we're going to go." The manager stutters, "wait, I'll give it to you for free! It's not your fault!" You're darn tootin. "No thanks," Nick says and we walk out, leaving a long line of perplexed customers and the two guys holding blenders full of the wrong ice cream.
Nice huh? We couldn't believe it! It was like talking to a brick wall! We didn't even ask for anything from their menu. And where did he get chocolate from 'cheese cake and peanut butter'? No idea…..so we ended up going to Smiths and getting our own peanut butter ice cream to make shakes. Then we spent a nice quiet evening at home watching Glee and Dick Van Dyke (love Hulu). Ah, Holidays. Gotta love 'em.
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