Free ice cream

After playing for and sitting through two nearly identical sermons at church today, I was ready for something interesting. (Random comment about the church services: For special music, we played the anthem Dr. Ashton wrote for the upcoming GC. If you want to hear it, click here.) Several people came over to our apartment for lunch and then later in the afternoon some of us went on a hike at Signal Point. Jonathan and I braved putting our feet in the stream at the bridge but couldn't leave them in the freezing water more than a few seconds. We ventured off the trail downstream a little ways, hoping to find the waterfall, but decided to turn back so we wouldn't miss Josh, Bryn and Danielle, who were hiking behind us. We met up with them on our way back and hiked back to the parking lot together.

After a brief stop at the dorm and our apartment again, we went over to Jonathan's grandparents house for a haystack supper. Jonathan's mum, who was here for the weekend to hear our orchestra concert, greeted us in her pajamas. After we ate, the rest of us also changed into pajamas before heading down to Brusters Real Ice Cream on Jenkins Rd. A crowd of people and a traffic jam of cars met us as we pulled into the parking lot. Tonight was customer appreciation day at Brusters. They were serving free ice cream and the only stipulation was that you had to be wearing your pajamas to get a free waffle cone of ice cream. This proved to be a problem for Jonathan who had no pajamas. He ended up having to trade his shorts for his cousin's pajama pants, but eventually even he got a free ice cream cone. We left from Brusters and went straight to Asian Night where we ate more free food. All in all, it was a good day for doing out-of-the-ordinary events and eating a lot of good food for no money, a college student's dream.