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| First stop? D Dutchman Dairy The Halloween Decorations at the door were too good not to document. |
Greg had checked out DriveBC to find out how many construction stops along the way we might have: five.
But those stops didn't include the first one which was just a few miles past Malakawa, just before Victoria Falls.
At first the radio reported there would be a 15 hour delay because a big truck has hit a power line and brought it down.
In the end we only had to wait 40 minutes there, but remember, this was a stop that was not even on the DriveBC website.
Greg says that we accomplished a first as we drove home. That is, we didn't stop at Subway, Dairy Queen or MacDonalds in Golden, but kept driving on through.
Wyona had packed turkey and cheese sandwiches on home made buns, milk chocolate ju-jubes, sesame seed sticks, cheesies, red licorice, sweet potato tortilla chips, vegetables (carrots sticks, radishes, celery) and she had a cooler full of Coke on ice.
We ate these but not in the order listed.
And as you can see above, we stopped for that final ice cream cone of the year at D Dutchman before we had gone 6 miles from home. Laynie claims that the lemon pie filling flavour is now the best one in their coolers. The clerk had just sold the last cone of that flavour and there was no back-up container of lemon pie filling ice cream, so we choose other flavours which were delivered to us in waffle cones that were still warm. The clerk also gave us her 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th best flavours, all the time telling us about the charm of the new community she lives in. She just moved from Airdrie to Malakwa and says she gives out prayers of thanks every mile of the way as she drives from her new home, through the beautiful forest to work at the ice cream shop.
I don't care how many people don't like D Dutchman ice cream (too much cow, they say).
I say that the ice cream was just right today -- not too hard, not too soft, and delivered to our hands with love by a clerk who says that she has just started living in this community and it has just the right amount of soul.
For sure that soul was delivered to us in our cones today.
Arta
quite a switch from prairie to forest...
ReplyDeleteYes to the move for that clerk. She was chatty. Born in Ontario. Moved west. Didn't make any friends in Airdrie in four years. Now she feels surrounded with energy. She waxed poetic about the drive in from Malakwa every day, just giving such thanks for the leaves on the trees, the golden colour, the smell in the air. Nobody else was in the shop but the three of us. We looked up and down the glass cases. The clerk told us what we already knew. If the flavour has the word cheesecake in it, you are probably going to be delighted. She also liked the salty caramel. I don't like to mix my sweet and salty tastes bu I am in the minority with that.
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