A Saturday Treat

Somehow I became a part of the Tiff's Treats email distribution list. I have only been to Tiff's Treats once with a friend of mine. It was the downtown Dallas location, which may have been the first local one. Anyway, I received an email about their Grand Opening event in Richardson. Since all of the proceeds went to the Make-A-Wish foundation, in particular to a little boy named Jackson, and they were selling a dozen cookies for $3 each, I had to go.

Ryan and I got there about 11:30am. The line wasn't too long, maybe about 30 or so ahead of us. The radio station Mix 102.9 was there and Jimmy John's went along the line and gave out free sandwiches. At around 12pm, we were still in line, and Jackson arrived in a limo with his family. Jackson is a sweet little 7 year old boy who has a brain tumor and his Make-A-Wish is to go on a cruise with his family. He was so incredibly sweet and even helped take cookie orders and deliver them to awaiting hands. Also, Tiff herself was their with her founding partner. It seems they both go to all of the Grand Openings. That was neat and nice of them.

At about 12:30pm we got to the front of the line and decided to order the maximum of 6 dozen cookies, 2 each of Oatmeal Raisin, Chocolate Chip and Snickerdoodle. The other neat thing about the event is that they had $6,000 worth of prizes hidden in the boxes. That means that we had six chances to win. They had a table set up when you walked out of the store to check each box for a prize. They checked ours and we won...a pair of Dallas Zoo tickets. Ugh, Ryan and I are both not zoo people. Oh well. It was nice to win.  But wait, once we got out to our car and opened one of the boxes we found we had also won tickets to the Dallas Opera. Yay! Much more our thing! The tickets are worth $143 each and we are excited to go.

So for $20, all of which goes to Jackson's wish, Ryan and I got 6 dozen cookies, two tickets to the Dallas Zoo and two tickets to the Dallas Opera. Not a bad haul for a good cause. We even delivered a box of warm, fresh cookies to my parents, so we spread the wealth.

I will be on the lookout, hoping that Tiff's Treats will have many more grand openings we can attend and both enjoy cookies and support a great cause!