free sundaes!

on tuesday i signed diane and her children into disneyland.  it has been very hot here and so about half way through the afternoon we decided to stop to get a soda for diane and some water for me (have i mentioned that i have been off soda since early june?  i had a sip of diane's soda on tuesday and i thought my esophagus was burning.  crazy soda.  anyway...).  after some confusion and meandering we finally go up to the ice cream place and i order a large soda and a cup of ice.  the worker looks at me real sad and says 'no ice cream?' and i said nope and then she rings a cowbell and everyone starts clapping.

at this point i was totally confused and thought this is what they did every time someone ordered... which seems excessive.  but then the lady said we were the guests of the hour so we could have whatever we wanted for free.  it still seems like a dream or like maybe i'm making this entire thing up.  but here is a picture of our sundaes that i swear we didn't pay for.

who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?

anyway, it is now my belief that a person should never have to pay for ice cream at california adventure... taking into account michael's free banana split (though it's still hard for me to believe that he got it b/c someone didn't want sprinkles).

anywho, i just wanted to share with all of you the message that there is still joy in this world and that joy often comes in the form of a surprise free sundae!