Thank You Notes

Ed Williams shows off the stack of thank-you notes he received from Ellensburg Middle School

Once a year for the past several years, Ellensburg Middle School has visited San Juan Island on their annual field trip. You have probably seen them – all over town with chaperones, out at the beach, at Whale Watch Park, Roche Harbor… you can’t miss ’em – kids with backpacks on, checking all the cool stuff out. Well, a tradition of theirs is to go to the San Juan Hot Shop and sample the hottest hot sauce available. Ed says it’s almost like a Rite of Passage – “These kids come into the shop to taste the hottest sauces we have… some of them end up red faced, some end up in tears, but they all have a great time, and they come back year after year”.

This week, Ed came back from the post office with a large envelope and was surprised to open it and find it full of thank you notes. All of the kids from the last field trip wrote notes saying how much they enjoyed the hot shop. “It almost put ME in tears” he said. “Very touching, and I wasn’t expecting that”. 

Go try some of Ed’s samples for yourself and see if you can hold back the tears…

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