olive you

thomass its a mouse, it has its little donut eyes closed

sloane. sloane is a friend of ours. she is very large, but also tiny the same time. we would continue to explain but at the moment cayla is still traumatized from a movie depicting the life of frida kahlo. today we visited an olive mill which may sound a little lame, but was actually a little lame. did you see what i did there? it was a mundane afternoon until cayla needed a small in the 'olive you' t-shirt and all that was out on the shelves was large or XL. we all know cayla needs the XL but can't come to facts. so we ask the redhead girl with braces behind the counter if they have any smalls in the back and her head kind of exploded and she didn't really do anything. then, as we waited next to the t-shirts, a boy that was also working behind the counter came over to us. average height, brown hair, fair skin, the average olive mill college-age worker. he opened his average olive mill worker mouth to ask us if we needed help with anything and HELLO out comes a smoother than honey mouth watering australian accent. our family stood dumbfounded holding numerous olive-pun t-shirts watching as this average looking boy was transformed into an olive god from down under. he told us that the best part of his job was the free wine tastings on saturdays while the orthodontialed redhead giggled at his every word. we all know what the best part of her job is. olive mills have their perks? we will definitely be visiting again.

you may ask yourself, how did this australian boy end up in this olive mill at the end of a dusty road in queen creek? eventually we'll get the full story after he asks one of us out, but it is probably similar to the story of how our australian kayaking guide ended up in ketchikan, alaksa when we took our cruise a few years ago. do they just look for obscure places to work and surprise people that are looking for small olive t-shirts or trying to keep their fake nails on while paddling a kayak? i don't know, but hopefully they'll keep showing up.

cheers,

lauren & cayla