Dublin Dr. Pepper

Mmmmmm. In the soda world, there's NOTHING better than a cold 8 oz. Dublin Dr. Pepper. The Friday after Thanksgiving, Dad, Mom, Karen, Jason and I piled into the truck to head to Dublin. The trip there was fun; lots of goofiness and laughter, as is to be expected when we get together. Seeing that sign on the side of the plant, though, was like the mother ship was calling us home.

We ate lunch first since we were all starving by the time we got there. After eating, we hit the tour. It's not a long tour, but it is fun. The best part of it is checking out all of the awesome Dr. Pepper paraphernalia that the owners had collected over the years. The coolest thing in there, in my humble opinion, was an apparatus used to prepare hot Dr. Pepper. That's right, hot Dr. Pepper with a squeeze of lemon juice is one of my favorite winter drinks.

We finally made it out of the tour and back to the shop where we proceeded to buy too much stuff! Jason picked up some Dr. Pepper beef jerky, which he thought was decent, and I got some Dr. Pepper lip gloss, jelly beans and some cake and icing mix. We also ended up coming home with a case of 8 oz. Dr. Peppers. I was thinking of giving some out as gifts, but that's not going to happen. Maybe next year! Lol!

Here's Karen and Jason, waiting for the rest of us to finish shopping so that we could head home. See how happy Jason is? Soda's not his thing; he just doesn't understand!






The ride home was, well, an event. It was really the first time I'd ever seen Jason on a sugar high. The man just does not like sweets. I mean, he had two sodas and a bag of candy in a two-hour period of time. He is INSANE on sweets! He was laughing at absolutely everything and it was, honestly, one of the most annoying laughs ever. I'm giggling just thinking about it. Not long after getting on the road, he crashed into a veritable sugar-coma. Ah, the peace and quiet.

The Dr. Pepper cake was made with an 8 oz. Dr. Pepper and the icing was made with 1/4 cup of Dr. Pepper. Karen and mom whipped it up the night after our road trip and it was divine. It was SO moist and chocolatey!

So, that was our trip to Dublin. I finally feel like I'm catching up! Now I just need to get back to reading all of my friends' blogs and catch up on what's going on with them.

As always, thanks for reading and have a great night!

This Crazy Life

I cannot believe that it's Dec. 1, 2008! Only a month left this year! I'm going a bit crazy right now. Jason and I had a WONDERFUL time while spending Thanksgiving week with my family. I do have pictures and stories to tell, but I'm hoping to do that through the week. I'm hoping for a post for each great event, but we'll see how that goes!

We got home around 4 pm after about 7 hours on the road. I got inside and promptly began unpacking, only to turn around and start packing again. I leave tomorrow morning with some coworkers for a conference in the Dallas area. I'm NOT looking forward to 10 hours in the car after all the driving we did last week, but it has to be done. I'm hoping that we'll be home in the early evening on Saturday, but more likely than not, we'll be home late Saturday evening. I'm still reeling from last week and am having trouble planning outfits, workouts and etc. for the trip, but I'll figure it out. I think that I'll be able to slow my mind down after I get back from getting the rest of the bills paid at lunch. Having that done will be a HUGE relief.

I can't wait to blog about this past week, but I think I can hold it in. There should be some down time in the hotel and I can type and attach pics then.

Thanks for reading and please stay tuned for some Thanksgiving fun!