Beacon In the "Night"

Is there anything you miss when you've been away from home for a long time?  Any "creature comforts" that you took for granted and now wish you could have?  Old "haunts" that you wish you could walk back into?  

Well, I've been away from HOME for nine months now.  NINE long months.  And I missed something that I never thought I would miss because I always thought it would be there....

That's right baby, SONIC!!!!!

You see, in my part of Indiana (Central) there are NO SONICS!  I know!  Sacrilege.  At first, I didn't think anything about it.  I thought there had to be one somewhere.  But alas, no Sonic in Carmel, IN or Fishers or Noblesville or Zionsville.....  I could go on for a while here, but you get the picture.  No Sonic.

Then yesterday in South Central Indiana (after the death hike in Clifty Falls State Park), we stumbled upon this Beacon in the "Night" (or day).  I was so excited.  I couldn't believe that after NINE months, I was going to be able to buy a Large Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper with that wonderful iconic "Sonic Ice".  You know what I'm talking about.  That ice that is chewable but seems to last all day.

Oh yeah baby, that's what I'm talking about!  Ahhhhh...

And to make it even better...IT WAS HAPPY HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!