In Search Of The Perfect Wafer
I buy Heritage Wafers' "Golden Batch" chocolate wafers almost every day at work. They are cheap at 45 cents for a pack of four at the "GEWA" store at Goddard, a little discount store for Goddard employees conveniently located right near the cafeteria. Unlike a lot of chocolate wafers out there, including all of the much fancier packaged ones sold at the same store, there's no artificial flavor in these babies. They're flavored only with cocoa and chocolate liquer. 45 cents - that's pretty cheap, especially given the quality, but I want to save more. Surely there is a source for "Golden Batch" chocolate wafers in bulk on the web? My searches have turned up little, though. Nothing at amazon.com, and searching google only turns up company listings. It does show that the company is perhaps sometimes called "Bremner". I suppose I ought to call Heritage Wafers and see if they'll sell to me direct. Ten cases of Golden Batch chocolate wafers? Where's my credit card?
We had a busy weekend, starting with the previously mentioned sleepover at Granny's house on Friday. This was a sort of consolation prize, but don't take that the wrong way Granny! We were planning to go to an overnight camping trip with the Click's (and others), but we didn't get signed up in time. That was a huge disappointment to Max, but a sleepover at Granny's house made for a more than formidable replacement. The boys rode bikes outside, we made paper airplanes, etc, and the event was capped off in an exciting way for Max and Emmett with them getting to eat breakfast the next morning at the TV dinner tables while watching a Buzz Lightyear video (no even remote match for the full-length buzz-lightyear movie)
Saturday morning we, scrambling to get out the door in time, went to see Nicholas play baseball at some park that Bek navigated us to. We arrived in time to see the 2nd half of the 2nd (of 3) innings. If I understood correctly, every child gets a turn to bat in each inning, regardless of outs. Each kid gets 5 pitches in a chance to get a hit, with the coach pitching to his own players. We missed Nicholas' turn at bat in the 2nd, but did see him hit in the 3rd, and he did get a hit and scored. Nicholas made three good plays at first base in the 3rd inning, with clean catches and tagging the base ahead of the runner. Or maybe only two of those were ahead of the runner, but they were all good plays. Max had a good time watching the game, I think, and I know I did - I got pretty excited at the game and was *really* close to getting into a shouting match with the umpire. Fortunately there wasn't an umpire.
After lunch and some down time at home, we went to the Trolley Trail in Catonsville/Ellicott City. We had the usual life-or-death-struggle-resistance-to-leaving-the-house, but once there the boys ate up the bike ride down the trail with relish. Max was on his bike and Emmett on the tricycle. One part of the adventure that day was investigating the mysterious giant mounds of cement that appear periodically along this trail. I'm guessing they are for sealing in illegally disposed of nuclear waste canisters, which is probably the only thing that can explain Ellicott City, but Bek thought maybe it was for a raised trolley track. Of course it's better for it not to be solved so we can investigate it again next time. At one point Emmett was a ways up ahead. He was peddling and peddling, and chatting and chatting, on some adventure of his own.
The next day we started things off on the right foot, with Bek and I taking turns going to the gym. It was all downhill from there. There was some playing at home, inside and a little outside, and then we, fighting the good fight again, headed to the Inner Harbor. Emmett fell asleep on the way, but Max was awake and he and I rode the carousel there. That thing is a bit dishelved, but it goes fast and you've got to like the frogs and roosters. Max rode a frog. Next up was a stop at harborplace. Max got a frozen custard - the Kohls is gone now, replaced by another place that I can't think of the name of, but it was still good. Bek and I shared some fries. After that we walked around a bit and then Emmett woke up and we took the guys up to the top of the Baltimore World Trade Center. I think they were hurtin' for business because they told us it was a two-for-one, and then they didn't charge us for Max either. It cost us $5. Max loved it, but Emmett was a little scared. From there I spotted what I was looking for... "Power Dogs", a hotdog place near the B&N and ESPN Zone. That is, hot dogs, which the days events, and the fries, had gotten me in the mood for. Alas, we found it to be closed - not yet opened? Out of business? Don't know. We went back to harboplace and there Max, Emmett and I got hotdogs from the deli stand upstairs. They were quite good. Bek got a crabcake from Philips which she wasn't too happy with, though. The deli stand had a "slush puppie" machine and the boys both wanted one for desert. If you want to find out just how bad a Slurpee immitator can be, you need go no further than that deli stand. Truly vile. None of us could drink it. Last but not least we went back to the Carousel so Emmett would get a turn. He opted to sit in one of the bench seats. He seemed a little nervous about the speed, but he also laughed with joy whenever we went by and waved at/were waved to by Max and Mommy.
Whew! Thanks for listening.
We had a busy weekend, starting with the previously mentioned sleepover at Granny's house on Friday. This was a sort of consolation prize, but don't take that the wrong way Granny! We were planning to go to an overnight camping trip with the Click's (and others), but we didn't get signed up in time. That was a huge disappointment to Max, but a sleepover at Granny's house made for a more than formidable replacement. The boys rode bikes outside, we made paper airplanes, etc, and the event was capped off in an exciting way for Max and Emmett with them getting to eat breakfast the next morning at the TV dinner tables while watching a Buzz Lightyear video (no even remote match for the full-length buzz-lightyear movie)
Saturday morning we, scrambling to get out the door in time, went to see Nicholas play baseball at some park that Bek navigated us to. We arrived in time to see the 2nd half of the 2nd (of 3) innings. If I understood correctly, every child gets a turn to bat in each inning, regardless of outs. Each kid gets 5 pitches in a chance to get a hit, with the coach pitching to his own players. We missed Nicholas' turn at bat in the 2nd, but did see him hit in the 3rd, and he did get a hit and scored. Nicholas made three good plays at first base in the 3rd inning, with clean catches and tagging the base ahead of the runner. Or maybe only two of those were ahead of the runner, but they were all good plays. Max had a good time watching the game, I think, and I know I did - I got pretty excited at the game and was *really* close to getting into a shouting match with the umpire. Fortunately there wasn't an umpire.
After lunch and some down time at home, we went to the Trolley Trail in Catonsville/Ellicott City. We had the usual life-or-death-struggle-resistance-to-leaving-the-house, but once there the boys ate up the bike ride down the trail with relish. Max was on his bike and Emmett on the tricycle. One part of the adventure that day was investigating the mysterious giant mounds of cement that appear periodically along this trail. I'm guessing they are for sealing in illegally disposed of nuclear waste canisters, which is probably the only thing that can explain Ellicott City, but Bek thought maybe it was for a raised trolley track. Of course it's better for it not to be solved so we can investigate it again next time. At one point Emmett was a ways up ahead. He was peddling and peddling, and chatting and chatting, on some adventure of his own.
The next day we started things off on the right foot, with Bek and I taking turns going to the gym. It was all downhill from there. There was some playing at home, inside and a little outside, and then we, fighting the good fight again, headed to the Inner Harbor. Emmett fell asleep on the way, but Max was awake and he and I rode the carousel there. That thing is a bit dishelved, but it goes fast and you've got to like the frogs and roosters. Max rode a frog. Next up was a stop at harborplace. Max got a frozen custard - the Kohls is gone now, replaced by another place that I can't think of the name of, but it was still good. Bek and I shared some fries. After that we walked around a bit and then Emmett woke up and we took the guys up to the top of the Baltimore World Trade Center. I think they were hurtin' for business because they told us it was a two-for-one, and then they didn't charge us for Max either. It cost us $5. Max loved it, but Emmett was a little scared. From there I spotted what I was looking for... "Power Dogs", a hotdog place near the B&N and ESPN Zone. That is, hot dogs, which the days events, and the fries, had gotten me in the mood for. Alas, we found it to be closed - not yet opened? Out of business? Don't know. We went back to harboplace and there Max, Emmett and I got hotdogs from the deli stand upstairs. They were quite good. Bek got a crabcake from Philips which she wasn't too happy with, though. The deli stand had a "slush puppie" machine and the boys both wanted one for desert. If you want to find out just how bad a Slurpee immitator can be, you need go no further than that deli stand. Truly vile. None of us could drink it. Last but not least we went back to the Carousel so Emmett would get a turn. He opted to sit in one of the bench seats. He seemed a little nervous about the speed, but he also laughed with joy whenever we went by and waved at/were waved to by Max and Mommy.
Whew! Thanks for listening.
posted by public_sjj at 1:29:00 PM
2 Comments:
If you find those wafers, let me know and I may go in with you on an order.
Quite a fun weekend. I know a great place for the boys to ride their bikes, Mariner's Point. Good for a picnic too or there is a Pizza Hut just outside. I have never been there on a weekend but on Fridays we would have the place to ourselves almost.
Mom
You mentioned to us once before as a place we should take the boys, and that it was a good spot to watch birds. How's the bird population there this time of year?
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