A few days ago we got to help BatikFreak10 celebrate her ___ birthday. She can tell you how old she is (hint, prepare to be shocked, shocked I say). We...she... had decided that we were to spend her special day geocaching and having a little lunch. What happened only roughly followed her plan. And no photographs were taken during what turned out to be a day of wretched excess, and very little geocaching. The scenes were too, well, excessive to be photographed.
We gathered at Sally's home just before lunch time and decided to have our meal at Dobra Zupas, a new small diner located near the site of the old Beckley train station. Sally had tried this one once before and was pleased, today would be no exception. The sandwiches were fresh, plentiful and well made. Then the server (one of the owners as it turns out) just had to bring up the fact that they had just made an angel food cake and it was available with fresh strawberries. And there was fresh made key lime pie too. And our day immediately went to "heck" in a bucket at that point and all caution and good sense was thrown to the wind. The strawberry short cake was short in name only. The cake was still warm and showed up in several thick slabs, the berries fresh and plentiful. The key lime pie was equally as good.
Finally we staggered out the door and into the car for an afternoon of successful cache finding.
What followed was all Joyces' fault. After each and every cache she would plead that it was ice cream time. About two hours into our caching (this day started out to be a geocaching day remember??) day Sally had to mention that we were near our fave ice cream place when in Beckley...no not the "Durry" Queen. Belacinos Pizza. Actually this is not as crazy as it sounds, the Beckley Belacinos has a nice side addition--one of those counters where you can order your ice cream mixed and matched with dozens of toppings. But when we arrived at the shopping center for our ice cream at the pizza parlor, Sally just had to point out an even newer place. A frozen yogurt stand by the name of Sweet Frog Frozen Yogurt (click on the link for a short news item and video of the store).
We were like kids in a..well in a frozen yogurt store I guess. We ordered yogurt by the ounce (I got to have actual original tart yogurt tasting frozen yogurt). The bill came to $12.00. No not just for mine, that would be excessive, silly. We pigged out of cups of yogurt (yogurt is too healthful) and staggered out of the store. Geocaching was over for the day. We were helplessly stuffed. None of this was my fault.
Sally can tell you about getting shaken down by a panhandler earlier in the day.
