I Suck At Friendly's

On Saturday, Friendly's was having its annual free ice cream day. (For anyone curious, Friendly's offered customers a free scoop of ice cream between the hours of noon to 5 pm.) This day has been marked on Karen's calendar for awhile. After all, Karen and I do thoroughly enjoy the taste of ice cream. Hopefully, our baby daughter (Briana) will also appreciate the wholesome yumminess known as ice cream some day.

Anyway because I suck at Friendly's, we had planned according for this day. And by "planned accordingly", I mean we purposely set out to hit the local Friendly's around noon time. It just so happens that we hit two local Friendly's for ice cream.

During the late morning, Karen and I (and Briana) ran a couple of errands. We eventually ended up at the Hanover Mall, where there just happens to be... a Friendly's. So after grabbing a bite to eat for lunch (at Subway... to which we have really gotten a lot of mileage out of the Subway gift card that was given to us), we headed on down to Friendly's. Needless to say, the free scoop of ice cream was delicious. I had the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on a cone. (Cue Rachael Ray's "Yum-O" sound.)

The ice cream was great. In fact, it was so good that on our way home from the Hanover Mall, we went to the other Friendly's located on route 53 just up the street. There too, I had another scoop of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on a cone. It was like heaven... so much ice cream... so little time. I would probably have hit all the Friendly's in the area if I could.

Needless to say, it was a good day. Of course, my stomach was making so many noises afterwards. It was a little comical to hear the constant gurgling of my tummy while holding Briana. I'm not sure Briana knew what to make of those sounds.

Anyway, from there the rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Karen and I decided to watch Igor.

(The following is a trailer for Igor.)


As far as animated movies go, the movie was okay. It was the predictable run-of-the-mill kid movie. For anyone curious, the plot is about a hunchbacked assistant (Igor) who aspires to become an evil mad scientist (in a world of mad scientists and evil inventions). An opportunity arises and he creates a monster known as Eva (a mispronunciation of "evil"). Of course, Eva is far from evil... and... well... you know... predictable run-of-the-mill stuff. But the movie was entertaining... and how could it not be... Igor was voiced by John Cusack.