Friday’s Fave Five

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Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts Friday’s Fave Five so we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God gives. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link up your own.

So here are five favorite things from this last week:

1. A successful first-ever solo road trip. (Thank you, Lord!!) That’s one reason this is late — I just got back this afternoon. I’ll tell you more about it next week. 😀

2. Rest stops. They’re clean, they have multiple bathroom stalls, and they’re quiet — no music playing over speakers. I got so tired of small, crowded, messy, noisy restrooms in restaurants and gas stations.

3. Mug’s Root Beer. I mentioned before liking root beer at restaurants because it’s decaf, and I can’t have caffeine, and I am not crazy about Sprite or 7-Up and the like. If we’re eating out I usually drink water, but if I am running errands and want something cold to drink, I usually go through a drive-through for root beer. Sadly, I found out a few weeks ago that Barq’s root beer, which most restaurants seem to sell, does have caffeine. A&W root beer is too vanilla-y. Bojangles is about the only place in town that sells it as a fountain drink (Taco Bell used to, but they stopped. 😦 ) I couldn’t find a Bojangles on the trip at first, but I found a drink machine with bottles of Mug Root Beer at a rest stop, and then I got…

4. Zaxby’s munchy crunchy small ice to pour it over. Yumsome! Plus that Zaxby’s only charged me 11 cents for a cup of ice — here they charge 25.

5. My own computer! Well, it’s actually the central family desktop computer, but everyone else has laptops, so I almost have this one to myself. My husband has a small notebook-type computer that is portable and nice for trips, but it is very small. This screen and keyboard seem so BIG after using that one!

That’s it for this Friday. Hope you have a great weekend!

8 thoughts on “Friday’s Fave Five”

  1. YOU took a road trip? By yourself??? Barbara! I am SO PROUD of you!!! That is wonderful! I can’t wait to hear about it…

    I do not think ANYplace should charge for ICE! That is so silly!

    I always miss by BIG computer when I’m gone and using my laptop exclusively. I’m not going to replace the big one when it dies… but I sure AM going to MISS it!

    Luz IS going to VBS this year! I am sO excited! But she will MISS the last day as she has a commitment up in Pennsylvania that day. That makes me sad because the last day is always special. It runs July 5-9th this year.

  4. Welcome back. I’m heading out on my first long solo road trip this coming week and I’m a tad nervous but you give me hope. Yum! Root beer. We always enjoyed A & W in a frosty mug growing up and root beer floats as kids. Good memories. Have a great week.

  5. Congratulations on your solo trip, Barbara! Did you get sleepy at all?
    The one time I tried driving to Indianapolis to see my girlfriend, I about died from getting sleepy. I had to stop so many times between here and there, I said I’d never attempt that agian and I haven’t.
    I could never work somewhere that required a long commute!
    I loooove diet Mug Root Beer!
    I look forward to hearing more about your trip!
    Oh, and since Daniel got married, I have this computer to myself as Ed does not do the computer….at all! 🙂 I thnk it is because he can’t type.

  6. A roadtrip sounds like fun! I don’t know if I could do a long one by myself though.

    My daughter drank Mug root beer too because she can’t have caffienne either. She does like the A&W one though, but then everyone in our family likes vanilla so that is probably why she liked it.

  7. I’ve never known so much about root beer! Thanks for all the info. (I enjoy it, but rarely buy it. I should get some soon.)

    So happy you have your own computer. A true blessing, isn’t it?

    Glad your solo road trip was a success… ღ

  8. Hi Barbara,

    Reading your post makes me want a root beer float BADLY! 😉

    I have never tried Zaxby even though we have one in town – might have to do that one of these days.

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