While we were in temp housing, because we have two cars, my teenage sons were adamant that I could not have a drink at dinner, not even one. We have been eating at lots of pubs and taverns, so it has been very temping! But, I honored their request for a number of reasons. First: because I was in a foreign county and driving on the wrong side of the road; second, because we always went back to where we were staying in the dark and lastly because I respect them and their need to be safe and I hope that they hold everyone that they ride with to the same standard.
I have been very interested in trying the different types of beer and alcohol here, so today after Super Hnadsome and I tried to purchase one of the cars and failed (because it was not ready).... we went to the grocery store and while looking at the squash (which would be a concentrate juice), I noticed the alcoholic cider on the other side of the aisle. Super Handsome had heard that Bumbler's Pear Cider was suppose to be really good and as we looked we saw a bunch of other different flavors that we decided to try as well! The picture shows: Franks Alcholic Root Beer, Franks Ginger Beer, Brothers Toffee Apple Cider, Bulmers Pear Cider, Bulmers Cider with Crushed Berries and Lime and Wells Banana Bread Beer. I cracked open the Alcoholic Root Beer and had it with dinner, it was not bad! We then drank the Toffee Apple Cider, which reminds me of Creme Soda. Super Handsome really enjoyed that more then the alcoholic root beer.
As I mentioned earlier, before Super Handsome and I did our beer run, we went to the car dealership intending to get one of the cars. My car was not ready yet, which was a disappointment as we really need to get rid of these rental cars. They are very costly! In other news, we are having more issues with our credit union (first it was the debit card issue). Along with all the feet dragging, they have decided that Super Handsome's car is not worth the selling price. So, it looks like I have plans Monday, calling them when they open to discuss the issue. The last email that we got informed us of the issue and then also informed us that he would discuss with us on Tuesday as he is off Monday. Not. acceptable.
We decided to get a loan for the cars, little did we know that we should have just saved ourself the pain and just jabbed ourselves repeatedly in the eye! Seriously, this has been going on for two weeks people. Get on it and get on it NOW! Honestly, I understand that I am not the first in line and everything has a process, but every time we thought we had all the information to the credit union we received emails requesting the same information again. I am not sure what the problem was, I wondered if they were not receiving the attachments from Super Handsome since he was sending them from his UK work address. One issue that did come up was that they apparently decided only to deal with Super Handsome (probably because he is primary on the account or something) and left me out of the loop. Super Handsome had to redirect her to "the boss".
After we finished discussions with the very patient car dealer, we headed out to the pottery place, PotStop to grab the projects that we did on Tuesday. I think that they turned out rather well!
After that we headed back home to Oak Lodge. On the way we stopped at the store and along with the beer, we grabbed some pumpkins for the kids. They were thrilled to see them when we got back home. When we arrived home we were also greeted with a dozen yellow roses! Our neighbors: Keeley; Tony; Emily and Christian dropped them off at the door for us with a card welcoming us! Quite a nice welcome! Maybe we should have them over for a beer....
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