The big scoop
Yesterday was an interesting day. Jaime and I thought our adventures had come to a close. Monday we went skiing at Roundtop near Mechanicsburg. We had about 4-5 inches of powder which made for wonderful skiing. The only trouble was, the snow really slowed things down. I ended up skiing straight down Minuteman (blue) just to have some idea of speed. We skiied the whole mountian in about 2 hours and started to really experience powder skiing. Pretty tough stuff if you're not used to it!
The big scoop happened yesterday when my mother-in-law called me at work. She works for a trucking company in Williamsport, PA and works with billing, taxes, etc. So she calls and asks "would you like 19 cases of ice cream?" Now this is the kind of question that you immediately must say "YES" to... however, I realized that this might be a logistical nightmare. The idea was for the ice cream to be donated to a food bank... which is perfect since my church runs one. But then I started thinking things like "how much ice cream is in 19 cases?" This ice cream was available because the cargo shifted and the pallet broke. So the ice cream was fine, but the boxes where a little banged up.
I did a lot of calling around, first to the pastor, then to the food bank director (who was sleeping, sorry), then to my wife. In all we coordinated slowly what was happening. By 3:00 PM we had figured out that each case was a 1 foot cube and there was half chocolate and half raspberry (with chocolate chunks). It was made for a "soft ice cream machine" but was perfectly edible if you take the lid off. We also found that the driver would be in Carlisle, PA at 6:00 PM. I needed to be in Middletown at the church by 7:00 PM. So I raced home.
Jaime and I drove to Carlisle and with a few phone calls, met up with the driver. He helped us load the ice cream (which basically covered the whole back of the 4Runner and then some!) And we were off to Middletown by 6:15 PM! And to keep the ice cream cold, we rolled down all the windows! It took us about 35 minutes to get to Middletown and by that time we were pretty much frozen! We met up with the pastor and family and unloaded the ice cream with just enough freezer space to fit it! Then, we tasted the raspberry... Hmmm.... very good stuff! Thanks CrossRoads Logistics!
So that's the scoop (ha ha).
The big scoop happened yesterday when my mother-in-law called me at work. She works for a trucking company in Williamsport, PA and works with billing, taxes, etc. So she calls and asks "would you like 19 cases of ice cream?" Now this is the kind of question that you immediately must say "YES" to... however, I realized that this might be a logistical nightmare. The idea was for the ice cream to be donated to a food bank... which is perfect since my church runs one. But then I started thinking things like "how much ice cream is in 19 cases?" This ice cream was available because the cargo shifted and the pallet broke. So the ice cream was fine, but the boxes where a little banged up.
I did a lot of calling around, first to the pastor, then to the food bank director (who was sleeping, sorry), then to my wife. In all we coordinated slowly what was happening. By 3:00 PM we had figured out that each case was a 1 foot cube and there was half chocolate and half raspberry (with chocolate chunks). It was made for a "soft ice cream machine" but was perfectly edible if you take the lid off. We also found that the driver would be in Carlisle, PA at 6:00 PM. I needed to be in Middletown at the church by 7:00 PM. So I raced home.
Jaime and I drove to Carlisle and with a few phone calls, met up with the driver. He helped us load the ice cream (which basically covered the whole back of the 4Runner and then some!) And we were off to Middletown by 6:15 PM! And to keep the ice cream cold, we rolled down all the windows! It took us about 35 minutes to get to Middletown and by that time we were pretty much frozen! We met up with the pastor and family and unloaded the ice cream with just enough freezer space to fit it! Then, we tasted the raspberry... Hmmm.... very good stuff! Thanks CrossRoads Logistics!
So that's the scoop (ha ha).
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