Today we realized we never need to take the kids to Disneyland again, because the wonder they expressed at visiting SafeWay tonight, was more than they ever did at Disneyland!
Pickles, you need pickles, come visit our WALL of pickles... bread n butter, dill, kosher, spicy, sweet, sliced whole, lots or little!
SELECTION!
wow.
I've had many a missionary tell me that visiting the American supermarket was the single largest culture shock for them.. some overwhelmingly so.
We fared all right... except the kids running around going 'WOW LOOK THEY HAVE TOASTER WAFFLES!!!!!!'
But then, I saw the mountain of soda.
Where we live, soda costs about $1.25 per can. So it's a rare treat, and you almost never drink more than one a day... if that.
So when we saw....
buy two 12 packs..... and get four 12 packs free... and then the words DR. Pepper and Diet Coke were on the list... I said 'kids, pick your favorite flavor soda'.
Calvin did the math...
'dad, that's 6x12 cans of soda... 72 cans of soda dad!'
'yes ANd they aren't the 330ml of soda they're 12 oz cans.. thats a few sips more than we're used to!'
'wow.. dad that's like 12x12x6 ounces of soda dad....' he then went off counting the many ounces of soda.
that's 72 cans of soda for - $12.00 = $.16 cents per can of soda... compared to our PNG cost of $1.25 per can.
Now we don't let our kids drink soda often... not only because of the sugar and caffeine but because of the cost.... so today they each picked their favorite non-caffeinated flavor....
and boy oh boy the selection! there were tons of different types of flavors. Someone in the past 3 years went nuts with cherry flavoring... there is cherry flavored EVERYTHING now.
anyway... we have some soda, AND we survived the supermarket with aplomb.
