A Family Outing To McDonald's.

Things you look forward to, when living in a small village.

Surprisingly here in our part of Burgenland, most advertising is done with flyers and old fashioned post. Yet those flyers get perused in detail and made use of. Now and again, McDonald's puts a coupon page in the post. My parents got one ( couldn't put it out of their mind ) and invited us along for a lunch at McDonald's. Bob, when he heard about the coupon was most put out, as he did not get one ( I think I binned it by mistake ).

Our village has about 300 inhabitants, so you can imagine that any Fast Food outlet would be at a loss here. So what is quite boringly commonplace for the ' city folk ', is an event for us. It is looked forward to with such excitement and anticipation. You know the sort, when you already picture what you will order and change it five times before you even get there. Murphy's law, one orders the wrong thing and what everyone else has looks much better !

Yesterday, the four of us set off on our excursion. We had all skimmed on a full breakfast, so that we could do justice to lunch. The mood was lighthearted and if it was in the movies, we probably would have burst into a song...It is about a 30 km drive and about halfway my Mum noticed that she had forgotten her coupons.

I was mentally scaling down my order ( parents were paying after all ), when as luck would have it, we found a lone coupon book at the counter and used it ! Crafty as we are, we each had one of the specials and most likely saved about 20 Euros.

When I was a young girl growing up in Bavaria, the only McDonald's near us was 100 km away. As you can imagine, we only went there on very special occasions. Now yesterday reminded me of how exciting and great it was to go there. The main thing was that we went together as a family, then and now. Those outings are treasured and imprinted on my mind. The fact that the meal was mouth-watering good, took second place of importance..

Family - is there anything better ?

Biggi

The view of part of our Village...