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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese

01 October 2009

We All Scream for Ice Cream!


When I first arrived in Abuja, I thought...this ain't so bad.  My social sponsor took me to Dunes, the high-end, expat clientele grocery store located at the bottom of a hotel.  I walked in and thought, nice nice.....and then I looked over at the freezer aisle and SCREAMED!!!  What did I lay my eyes upon?  That's right, a large selection of BLUE BELL ice cream.  My cyncial self thought, no this couldn't be.  We don't even have access to BLUE BELL in Washington, D.C.  I investigate; I turn the carton around and there you have it....Brenham, Texas.  And just to think, it could be yours here in Abuja, Nigeria for the mere price of $26!!


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5 comments:

  1. Jennelle and GregOctober 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM

    Wow...what a welcome surprise! :) Yum!

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  2. JOctober 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM

    And darn well worth it!

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  3. The KempsOctober 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    OMG that is HILARIOUS!! In NYC you can't even get the stuff! I have to get my fix whenever I go home!!

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  4. gaylbabyOctober 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM

    I tell Don not to bring home any more Moolenium Crunch (our fav), but sometimes he does, and you know what happens . . . :)

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  5. UnknownOctober 5, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    $26?! Wow, but for good ice cream it's worth it : ) You know that I'm quite the ice cream addict so I could somehow justify spending that much!

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