A New Way to Stimulate the Economy

I have the flu...it's been absolutely miserable. So, we decided to go through the Dairy Queen drive-thru to get some dinner. Yummy food + ice cream = happy family, right? Wrong.

The kids' meals from DQ come with toys. The problem with that is that none of the toys have anything to do with one another. So, Andrew got a really cool pair of sunglasses in his meal, and Joseph got some lame-o plastic fishy finger puppets. How fair is that?

So, Brad figured that this is part of the new economic stimulus package - when you go through the drive-thru with more than one child, make sure that only one of the children gets a cool toy. Hide the toys underneath of all the food so that the unsuspecting consumers don't realize until they get home. Go to Wal-mart to buy the equivalent of the toy that came in the kids' meal. See! Our economy is being stimulated - Not only did we go out to eat, we also went to Wal-mart to buy toys. Now if we can just get everyone to go to DQ and order two kids' meals, then they'll have to go to Wal-mart and spend money on toys! Hooray, the economy is fixed.

At any rate, Andrew looked really cute in the sunglasses from Dairy Queen, and daddy took Joseph to Wal-mart, where he got some stylish Transformers glasses, as seen below:

Andrew enjoying his corndog and his new sunglasses, courtesy of Dairy Queen.

Apparently the lame-o fish puppets aren't so lame-o, as long as you don't have to give up your sunglasses.

And, one trip to Wal-mart later...

...Joseph in his cool Transformers glasses.