Labor Day Weekend at Pops

Submitted by corwin on Sat, 5 Sep 2009 9:50pm

This afternoon, Brianna and I took advantage of a beautiful day to hit the road and took Route 66 out to Pops. I'd heard about the place and its myriad collection of different flavored sodas from friends, and have even passed it on the road to other places. I've always meant to check it out, but never made it there before.

We both had a really great time. The collection of sodas, both the bottles on display in all of the giant windows, and those available for sale, was beyond impressive. In addition to my very favorite of all, Dublin Dr. Pepper, they had more varieties of root beer than I've ever seen, and carbonated beverages in every color of the rainbow.

Since I had missed lunch earlier, I was starving by the time we'd looked through all the coolers, so we sat down to have a bite. My Pops Burger was absolutely excellent, and Brianna enjoyed helping me with my onion rings in addition to her Reece's Peanut Butter cookie. She had fresh-made lemonade, while I tried Dr. Pepper with a shot of chocolate mint syrup. It all hit the spot nicely.

You can't go to a place like that without coming away with a few bottles of obscure sodas, and we were no exceptions. We filled up a six pack with a good variety to try out at home later on. Brianna, connoisseur of root beers, got one of those, and a blue Jones soda, while I grabbed four others here and there. I could easily have filled a case, so we needed to head out before I spent everything I had.

On the way home, we took the opportunity to swing by UCO so I could show Brianna a little of the lovely campus where I get to spend my work days now. She really enjoyed that as well, and looks forward to heading up there with me some time when we have more time to spend. I'm looking forward to it, too.

If you want to see more, here's my Flickr photoset from the trip, including the six we brought home: