Our first stop on our Diner & Drive In Alberta Tour

Having a destination for the weekend makes everything so much easier. While I love the random spontaneity that is our life, knowing where I am going has made things a lot more fun. So begins the diner's and drive in tour.
This week we selected the famous Jacks Drive In in Stony Plain. This colorful tiny little burger house had 7 staff working both the front counter, drive in window, kitchen and milkshake stand. Quite an efficient army as the joint was certainly jumping. Kids from soccer practise, along with their parents and grandparents were everywhere, not to mention all the other locals who were out for the night.

I loved this place, it lived up to everything we were hoping for. When Meryl and I were kids there was the local burger place that was always packed no matter what hour. This place brought us that feeling, of when we were younger, seeing everyone you knew and finding out about the folks that were there that you didn't know.




Ice cream obscene. The kids ordered cones so big they defied gravity! And might I add, awesome soft serve.

Meryl and I had burgers and a single order of fries that fed our whole family. The service was amazing, when Meryl went back to get another cone, she gave him two - because she had to make him wait!!! (It was a damn good cone to but I was much to full from the burger to truly appreciate it!!)

We are going to keep this on our itinerary of places to stop once our tour is over, you can bet we will be coming back.