Best Drink Machine Ever

On Thursday, Auntie Destiny and Bridget met me at work to walk to the Downtown Tacoma Farmers Market.  Yes…it is June…and yes she is wearing a stocking cap…we are waiting for summer to come.   We had a fun walk and got a ton of complements on her hat. 

Ok so I will try to keep this story short but words cannot portray my excitement about this machine. Here is the story: On our way home from Bryce and Elece’s wedding (in Jan) Brendan and I stopped at a truck stop for dinner (classy I know…but it was late and we needed to get home to catch our flights). I decided that I did not want soda from the Subway and that I wanted to look in the truck stop convenience store for a soda…I wanted options! I perused the soda section and decided I actually wanted a fountain soda…This is where the magic happened…There was a machine as large as you could imagine and it had instructions on it…Step one: Select your ice (oh yes, you could pick cubed or crushed ice….who picks cubed when you have an option?!) The crushed ice came out and it was the Taco Time crushed ice!! Step Two: Select your soda….It was not just your standard coke, DC, etc…they had all the items you expect at a truck stop…ice tea, mountain dew, etc. I picked Diet Coke. Step Three: Select your flavor shot….Lemon, Lime, Cherry, Vanilla!! Are you kidding me?! This just made the options limitless….I could have lime DC and then Cherry DC….I stood there for a good couple of minutes trying to decide because I knew that I could not have a refill and change it up. I went with lime DC because it is the only flavor that you cannot get. It was so cool that even Brendan had fun playing with this stupid soda machine. Oh and sista let me tell you…it was the best soda I had ever made!

All of that to say that on Saturday, Brendan took me and Bridge out to lunch. He took us to Taco Time…which is kind of strange because we NEVER get to eat fast food…and there it was a smaller version of the machine I had been longing for! I was so excited that I would only fill my cup up half way so that I could make all of the different combos. We were there for about an hour…drinking soda…it was AWESOME!

Keri-next time you are in my country we will go there and you can get your bean burrito with hot sauce and I will get my soda!

Ok so that is not even half of the options...because once you pick that you want coke then it goes into another screen of options!!!

The bean was pretty excited too!