100% merino handspun

This weekend matt and I are going to Minnesota. I’ve never been before and I’m pretty excited to see the land of 10,000 lakes. It is for his Oma’s 80th birthday and I have spun this yarn for her. This will be the first time I’ve met her.

This weekend we went to one of the area fiber shops, and I bought this, and other deliciously colored merino rovings. After we left, we stopped by a local gas station to get some drinks. Inside there was a female police officer chatting it up with some locals, police car running outside. I bought a small “cherry cola” flavored slushy and he bought an energy drink. As we left, the police officer came outside to chat with a truck driver who parked his tanker truck precariously in the parking lot, and stood right next to our car as we pulled out watching us like a hawk, even straining to see we pull out safely. Guess she had nothing better to do. It wasn’t until down the street a bit that I took my first sip of the slushy and immediately the taste was horrendous. It tasted like something rotten at first and then the aftertaste tasted  overwhelmingly like beer. I just made a horrible face and then handed it to matt without saying anything. He tasted it and immediately said “it tastes like beer, don’t drink anymore of that”. I was glad he said it, because I didn’t want to finish it and I didn’t want him to think I was wasting it. Further on down the road he goes to open his drink and it is nowhere to be found. We pull over and it is just gone, poof, vanished. It was the only thing he bought, how could he have left it on the counter? We had traveled far enough at this point that it wasn’t really worth it to return for a $2 drink and a bum slushy, but man, we were both a little weirded out by that experience. And I know matt too well, because as I told him “I don’t want that bizaro experience at the gas station to reflect badly on the perfectly wonderful fiber shop.” I can almost guarantee that next time I want to go to that fiber shop he is going to say “is that the one with beer slushy station?”