Attendance prizes?

My teacher friends reunited tonight after a long summer apart: some of us studied abroad, others worked, and all of us had stories to tell.

This in itself was fantastic; the icing on the cake was the free food I walked home with. Who begins the evening at a bar with friends and ends it at home with a free cucumber, tomato, and Thin Mint Blizzard?

I'm still not sure how it happened myself, but it was a darn fine night. (And I cannot wait for breakfast tomorrow.)