Totally trying to get back into the style of blogging again. Still figuring out whether or not I want to be blogging about the daily events or of contemplative thoughts that come to mind. There’s also still a lot of work to do with the domain. Slowly but surely, right?
Nevertheless, yesterday was Aquarium day so Henry and I went off to Monterey. (Disclaimer: “Aquarium day” means nothing more than a date we set together to go to the aquarium. I assure you there were no special promotions or what-have-yous for the specific day. SAD!) Him and I have had a checklist of things to accomplish until he leaves for Riverside again and picnic has been one of them. So, I again packed a meal! RELENTLESS is the theme for this day!! Sandwiches, yogurt, salad, and waters! (Sorry, no secret surprise like fruit roll ups, hunny X_X ) It takes 2 hours to get to Monterey but we optimistically aimed to get there in 1.5 hours, considering our goal was to get there at 12 but realistically left my house at 11 HAW HAW. Keeping ourselves entertained, we named the trucks after our friends.
The aquarium was blah blah blah blah blah blah content about the aquarium. No one really wants to hear the details but it was indeed fun and enticing for my 8-year-old soul.
On to the REAL story: FOOD. The first thing we did when arriving at the Aquarium was eat. We left the doors of the Aquarium getting pretty hungry. We had one goal in mind: juicy juicy burger! BAD juicy juicy burger, in that case. Jack-in-the-Box it is! Now… trying to find one. We really didn’t want to spend much time circling around to look for a Jack’s. I mean, Henry was rushing cuz my hunger counter was counting down (reference: The Asahi Incident). We drove down some main streets along the freeway TO NO AVAIL.
Fine. Jack’s or Carl’s Jr. would suffice.
Driving driving driving. And the only thing we could find was McDonald’s. No! Screw it—we just got back on the freeway and headed on up, keeping watch over the freeway sides.
“Applebees?” he asks me.
“Um no….. was that a test?”
“Yes.”
And so we were committed. We would not give up on finding a Jack’s and/or Carl’s Jr. No matter how long it would take. I promised I wouldn’t faht mung jung. I promised I wouldn’t throw a (hunger) tantrum.
Finally.
“Dude, there’s a Jack’s right there….. DUDE they have Carl’s Jr. too!”
“Okay are we gonna do this?”
“YES!!” we both exclaimed.
Henry sped up on the two-lane highway, passed up and cut in front of a bigrig, 50 feet close to missing the exit.
Two tacos, bacon cheese potato wedges, sourdough jack, bacon ultimate cheeseburger, fries, and like 5 refills of coke. And all the while, we somehow agreed that upon finishing our meal, we would then refill our Jack-in-the-Box cup and drive 30 seconds away to the Carl’s Jr. to award ourselves for our patience and particularly my non-temperamental hunger patience! +A Famous Star, and crisscut fries.
It was a full day and I managed to redeemed my Aquarium immaturity by enthusiastically cooperating with the food adventure. Yessssss it was definitely a day of feats.
Now, please don’t ever ask me to do a chain food chain run ever again. Yeah that’s right. I just made a name for it. An CFC.
