I found a delicious little porthole into heaven today- a Tim Hortons/Coldstone combo. I was driving along Interstate 75 in Ohio in desperate need of lunch and caffeine, when I saw a sign for Tim Hortons. We don’t have Tim Hortons in our part of Michigan. Oh what good coffee they have. And doughnuts. And soup. And doughnuts. And sandwiches. And doughnuts.
Lo and behold, when I pulled up to the pearly gates, Coldstone was also present. Be still my heart. I actually didn’t get any ice cream with my lunch, but just the prospect that I could was sheer bliss. The signs boasted that for ONLY $.99 I could add a scoop of ice cream to my coffee order. Sugar coma? Yes, please! And the sandwich combo? I told them “wheat bread, please” quite intentionally so I could feel less guilty about saying “YES!” to the chocolate glazed cake doughnut instead of replacing it with an apple.
I’m so thankful that God blessed some people with brilliant business and marketing minds and genius ideas to combine such wonders as good coffee and doughnuts and ice cream all in one stop. I smiled all day long. Seriously. Granted, the joy may have been from the sugar/caffeine buzz from the coffee and doughnut, but I don’t really care. It kept me wide, wide, wide awake for the last 2 hours of my 5-hour solo drive.
There are 2 routes from our house to my parents house. We can go through Ft Wayne, Indiana which has less traffic, but no Hortons/Coldstone combo. Or we can to through Toledo/Findlay, Ohio which has more traffic, but DOES have the Hortons/Coldstone combo. Coffee, doughnuts and ice cream trump. Sorry, honey – we’re fighting traffic from now on just so we can pass through the porthole to heaven I found .2 miles off I-75 in Findlay, Ohio.
Here’s a link to all where you can find Tim Hortons/Coldstone combos
Sounds like a winner to me. What about putting a link to them at the end and/or map?
If I were web savvy, I would know how to do that! lol!
OMG! I would have had the same reaction, even though I don’t even know what a Tim Hortons is. I’ll have to ask my Mom & Van if they’ve heard of it before. OH and I sure didn’t realize you were that far from your parents…some reason I thought you were closer (well I guess you’re closer than you were in FL, but that’s still a hike).
Next time, take me with you! Does your Tim’s have the ice cappucinos? We love those……..
Casey – Tim Hortons is an amazing coffee/doughnut chain, and I believe it’s origins is Canadian, but it’s working it’s way through the U.S. They also have really good soup and sandwiches, so the combo with Coldstone is AMAZING!! The drive to my parents is about 5 hrs, so yeah a hike, but a lot closer than we used to be!
Susan, the reasons for you to visit us up here are building!! I think they had the ice capps too. Yumm!!
Hey Amelia, So nice to meet you at the conference. Hope your trip to get the kids was good!
Here in Buffalo we have Tim Hortons everywhere!!! I take the girls there for lunch on a regular basis…especially because they have a drive-thru and sometimes that’s what we really need! You’re right- they did originate in Canada. I’m pretty sure Tim Horton was a Canadian hockey player- of course, right?!
It was so nice to meet you too! Hope you had a safe trip home, Lisa. I’m sure Tim must have been a hockey player. Isn’t everyone in Canada? Lol! I don’t think there’s one in Grand Rapids, but there is in Lansing, an hour away. Sigh.