Dang! That’s Good Butterscotch Root Beer

This root beer tastes good but it doesn’t taste much like root beer. It is actually very similar to Henry Wienhard’s Vanilla Cream Soda, which is the best cream soda ever. So, it’s a tasty beverage but not so much in the realm of root beers.

Also for any Harry Potter fans it tastes exactly what I imagine Butter Beer to taste like.

This picture took like six takes to get. Laura and I just kept looking goofy. She’s so cute with her little animal cracker.

As of 10/4/09

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged but I’m bored and it’s fall break so I figure I’ll just sit here and type about myself. I’ll justify it by thinking that my family and friends back home will get to see or here what’s going on with the Jarrett Family (Jack and Laura edition).

Laura’s in bed. She has to get up at 5:30am for work. She’s not super excited about it. I’m proud of her though. She is such a hard worker and when it comes down to it she does it with a great attitude. I love her so much.

I taught bible study the last two weeks at Glenn and Amy’s. Matt and I are doing a series on 2 Corinthians 3:15 about examining ourselves. Its going really well so far I think. Tonight was about examining the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We talked about bearing witness to Jesus through the Spirit (John 15:26-16:15).

I’ve had plenty of new root beer encounters. On the way to and from my cousins wedding in Cary, NC Laura, Ray and I hit up a place that made their own root beer. Heinzelmannchen Brewery in Sylva, NC and Farley’s Hot Dog Stand in Barboursville, WV. The Growler I picked up at Heinzelmannchen is just flat-out beastly. Heinzelmannchen is German if you couldn’t tell, it has the two little dots above the “a”. The root beer was a little disappointing and I’m beginning to think that I might have caught them at the end of their keg, because it took the guy like four or five minutes to fill up the growler which is only half a gallon. Anyways it still had a unique taste but it just wasn’t carbonated enough for me. Over all I was disappointed. Farley’s root beer was unique as well. It had brown-sugary taste and felt more like an actually soda in the mouth. You know what I mean, it wasn’t rich and creamy it was carbonated more like A&W or Barq’s. Anyways I enjoyed it more than Heinzelm…yeah you know the German one.

I have also just received a package in the mail containing two of each of seven brand-spanking-new root beers and one bottle of a root beer I have had before, but never in a glass bottle (only in a can). I have tasted three of them so far and have not been impressed with any of them, but I think I’m going to devote a separate post to each of them with a picture of the bottle, maybe. After these seven root beers I will be right under one hundred different kinds of root beer.

Changing gears, I have discovered that Laura is awesome at throwing a football. She has a great spiral and can throw it at least 30 yds. It is my new favorite hobby. A couple of weeks ago we both had the afternoon off and decided to go to Cherokee park to throw the frisbee and walk some trails and what-not. Laura decided she wanted a football as well so we went to Dick’s Sporting Goods and got a 10$ (actually we got a 20$ one and took it to the park and didn’t like it and took it back) NFL sized football. Ever since we’ve have been throwing the football every chance get. We’ve taken with us to class, church and work, I kid you not, and have thrown the fields and parking lots at each. It’s great fun if you have a couple of minutes to kill.

My Personal Evangelism class is really pushing me spiritually. It’s really forcing me to get outside myself and share the gospel with people. Our sunday school class participated in a church wide prayer walk this afternoon and it was great to get out and slow down and pray for the people living around our church as we walked through their neighbor hood. Its given me some ideas for personal evangelism and a project I am doing for the class. The purpose of the prayer walk is to pray for the seed that will be sown this upcoming March. Our church is going to be doing a mass handout of information about the church and about the Gospel, trying to peak families interest in Bethlehem and to let them know that we are a church in the area that cares about their spiritual and physical well-being.

I think that’s all I got for now.

Oh also basketball season is going well. My team is undefeated 5 or 6 games into the season. We’ll see if I (my team) can bring home the championship shirt this year…