Well the day I have looked forward to and the day I have dreaded is looming ever so near.....OPENING DAY!!!! I just can't believe it is here! I guess, I thought we would go forever working on the place...silly me... But you know, if ever a family has come together it is The Whittington's. You know I have heard of families joining together and working hard to meet a common goal but I didn't think I would ever see it or even be in the mist of it! But to top it off, their friends joined in too! We had people than knew how to lay tile, and would tell us how to do it, and the Whittington's are full of carpenters, plumbers, and welders, and if they didn't know how to do it, well...they stared at it until an idea hit them. We had someone that did electrical work and he worked hours after he had gotten off work. Everyone that worked on The Dairy Freeze all had jobs that they would work during the day and then come and work 4 to 6 hours more! They all worked through sweltering heat at one point the thermostat in the Dairy Freeze said 109 AND that was INSIDE! So as you can see everyone gave up time with their families and valuable rest time to help us do something that we would not have been able to do on our own. For this we will forever grateful and most of all thankful that everyone of you believed in us and this crazy idea that we could do this.
About 4 years ago Curtis started talking about The Dairy Freeze and you know I didn't take him seriously, and we would talk about it and then we wouldn't talk about it. But when we flew out one cold January and walked into the building and saw how awful it was and I thought...well that settles it, it is too far gone. We flew back home and for a few weeks we didn't talk about it, and then something came up and we both said, "you know if we had the Dairy Freeze we could do...." and there we were talking about it again. We would be on and off about it and figuring if we could afford it and how much would it cost to fix it all. Then we moved and then like a light switch we decided that it was time to do something else and we would always come back to the idea of the Dairy Freeze. So we made the decision to try it and see what happens, I'm not kidding you it has been tough and stressful and some of the time I thought oh gee what have we done? But here we are about to open. I'm sure by Sunday I will think once again....oh gee what have we done? LOL
Well I have rambled on and I am sure I have bored you...but like I said when I started blogging about doing this writing about it would be like therapy.......so wish us luck and if you can come by to see the crazy couple who have quit their jobs to persue their dream to own a small resturant in a small Oklahoma town.
No comments:
Post a Comment