Bootylicious Banana Split

Kathe and I don't get to do much together these days, but we do walk downtown when we get the chance.

Living just a few blocks from downtown, we can walk to almost everything: the library, the park, the waterfront, coffee shops, book stores, shoe stores, the post office, the arts center, the farmers' market.... It's good to be close to downtown.

Now there's a new pleasure downtown: the Rexall has opened up a genuine soda fountain, where soda professors in genuine white coats will serve you genuine ice cream sodas (and almost-genuine phosphates: they use citric acid instead of phosphoric).

It's deliberately quaint, mixing references from the 1950s, the 1920s, the 1900s and other periods as well (for instance, in offering a "Bootylicious Banana Split").

We're going there a lot these days. We want to encourage it, lest it lose money for the store and be closed.

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "Pleasure is where you find it."\\