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Sweet pleasures on a Canadian road trip
Discovering an amazing bakery on drive through a less visited corner of the Rockies
Our eyes darted back and forth, feasting on the array of sweet treats behind the counter. Cookies in many flavours, muffins, cakes; all waiting like cute dogs at a rescue centre for someone to be their forever home.
You eat with your eyes, and ours were hungry. We could have eaten it all. But there was a problem, we didn’t want any of it.
This was the most disappointing moment of our lives. As good as everything looked, we just didn’t want it. This wasn’t what we had come here for.
I was panicking; this has been my idea. I was responsible. I’d walked in with a purpose, certain of what I needed to ask for, and now I was lost.
We had a quick, whispered discussion, aware of the person waiting eagerly to serve us. Should we apologise and leave empty-handed? Or get something else? But what? We didn’t want to look rude, like their products weren’t good enough. But this wasn’t what we had come here for. The reviews must have been wrong, or maybe they sold out already? Should we have left sooner? Driven faster?
