Free Potatoes

Last Saturday, there was a free potato giveaway event in NE Edmonton - 50 lbs. per person. The staff decided to take me and my roommates there as our outing. My mom and Grandma wanted to see what this was all about, so they came along. My mom grew up as a city girl and thought it would be nice to go to a farm. Since we could not fit into one car, my mom drove. It was great for me to spend time with my mom and Grandma going on a long car trip. I giggled and clapped from time to time. Shortly after my mom drove out of town, I said, "Emily." My mom had a feeling that I thought we were heading out to the airport to pick up Emily and Peter.

By the time we got close to the site, there was a long, long line up of cars ahead of us. We inched forward at snail speed. It was a beautiful sunny day and my mom told me she would have taken me out to walk along the road side if she wasn't driving. Grandma got out of our van to walk a bit and she picked up some potatoes from the fields. It took us over two hours to get to the place. By that time, all the potatoes were gone. My mom was disappointed, not because there wasn't any potatoes, but because there wasn't anywhere we could get out to move around for some physical activity. My mom found out from the news that there were over a thousand vehicles crawling along the highway in pursuit of potatoes that day.

Potatoes or no potatoes . . . . . I don't care. I had a good time!