Hill’s Kitchen Cuisinart Velocity Ultra Blender

We are expecting guests from the Midwest this weekend. In order to make the accommodations most accommodating, we always ask if there is anything particular that they would like to have in the house during the visit. Because our friends have a more vegetarian approach to life, they like to eat bananas, berries, strawberries and the like - and so do we. But what we didn’t have was a blender, because they like smoothies. So while we were on our morning walk we were trying to figure out a way to avoid a trip to Target in Alexandria. Then we remembered Hill’s Kitchen near Eastern Market and walked that way. We have been there before and apparently the store is doing well. They had a couple of options, and we decided to go with the Cuisinart Ultra Blend. There is a button on it just for smoothies. So we carried it home - a little heavier than expected. But we were glad to have found it and made it a part of our kitchen. So today we went to the grocery store and got some bananas, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and a couple packages of frozen fruits - just for smoothies. Maybe we will like it enough to have ourselves. Not a bad idea.