Get your kicks on.....

It was too hot to do anything else today, so we took a drive out on old Route 66.

The town is Arcadia, and the attraction was Pop's. It's a roadside diner whose claim to fame is having hundreds of old fashioned soda pop products that you thought you'd never taste again, as well as some trendy, expensive modern ones as well.

It was packed to the rafters with loud, hungry people. I mean PACKED.

I went with VERY high hopes to get a Frostie Root Beer, but they were OUT OF IT. Their windows are all fronted with bottles, as shown above in the picture behind Dave.

There's some Frostie Orange for you (why is that one bottle a different color??). But no regular Frostie Root Beer...only DIET, eeeeew, and vanilla flavored. Also eeeeew.

So, I had a Dad's root beer made with sugar instead of corn syrup. It was VERY yummy.

Dave accidentally grabbed a diet Dad's. Eeeeew.

We had lunch at the diner counter, after a 25 minute wait for a spot at the counter.... then cruised the mother road for a bit further out east, then back west again, toward home.

The sky was beautiful, but it was 102 outside...too hot for much else.

We DID stop at the "historic round barn." There's an eccentric guy named Butch who runs the place. Nothing much going on there. Butch sells his own jokes written in magic marker on old scraps of wood, and route 66 tzachki.

You can rent the loft for parties, if you want. Butch's hand written signs say "round tables go here," "square tables go here," "chairs go here," so you don't get things put away in the wrong places when your party's over.

Plus, the wiener mobile was at the grocery store yesterday! That picture is JUST for you, Elsa!