Every once in awhile…

Every once in awhile something (like finding a machacado con huevo taco here in Austin or remembering the $450/mo rent for 1100 sq. feet) reminds me of when we lived in Rio Grande City that *almost* makes me wish we still lived there.

I headed to our small group last night minus the boys.  James and Lowell seem to be coming down with something so they stayed home with Dave.  It was more important for them to get a full nights’ rest.  I know that Lowell needed his rest because he took 2 naps on me in the rocking chair yesterday and the night before.  Falling asleep on a parent on the rocking chair is usually an honor he reserves for Daddy, not me, so I know know know he needed that rest.

Anyhow, back to the being by myself part.  No, let me back up a little.  David fixed a roast in the crock-pot yesterday.  I normally eat my roast with plain ketchup.  It’s always been good enough for me.  Ketchup wouldn’t do last night.  Nope, not after Amy fed me a roast beef sandwich on Friday with Rudy’s BBQ sause.  Ketchup will not do any longer.

But we didn’t have any Rudy’s BBQ sause.  No sirree.

So, as I’ve mentioned twice already, I was by myself last night.  Amy’s house, where small group is hosted, is about halfway between us and a Rudy’s so I went ahead and took the drive out to Rudy’s and walked in a few minutes before they closed and grabbed a big bottle of that delicious sauce and proceeded down the queue to the register but not before I grabbed two 1-liter glass bottles of Mexican Coca-Cola.  If you’ve never had a coke from Mexico, you should.

Now I know people who live for a Dublin Dr Pepper and this is along the same lines as that.  Dublin Dr Pepper is formulated with sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup and it makes it That. Much. Better.  Same deal with the Mexican cokes.  Sugar.  Pure Sugar.  It makes it oh, oh, so gooood.  And they’re usually found in tall skinny glass bottles.

When we lived in Rio Grande City, we had a big plastic soda bottle case.  We would head over the border every other week or so to the coca bottling plant in Miguel Aléman and get a case of full coke bottles for, like, no kidding, $4 — that’s 24 liters of joy for under $5.  The cokes from Rudy’s were $2.59 each so I paid for 2 what I used to pay for 2 DOZEN.  They’re not worth it for that amount of money on a regular basis, but it helped justify a 9:20 pm run to Rudy’s 18 miles away, and… I know David and I each got our $2.59 worth of enjoyment out of them.  Mmmmmm