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We play clubs, weddings, corporate events, festivals, parties, and any gathering where there is a desire to have fun dancing to high-energy music. We perform an eclectic mix of rock, pop, funk, and top-40, from the 60’s to today. He said he also enjoys seeing how excited his wife gets every August. Rain City Time Machine is a Pacific Northwest cover band that performs danceable hits to get you moving. "It's still young love."įor Brad, their tradition is a chance to forget the tasks and stress of the day and relive their favorite memories. Sitting across from each other, leaning over with two plastic spoons buried in vanilla ice cream, the two are transported back to the first night they met.

All that to say, they continue to go, but not just for tradition's sake. Aside from this tradition, they cannot think of another one they take seriously or consistently. Susan and Brad do not consider themselves creatures of habit. "We know our DQ Banana Split is special and now we see that it's one of the keys to lasting love!" said Maria Hokanson, Executive Vice President for Marketing in U.S. "It's such a cherished activity that we can't imagine skipping it," Susan said.ĭairy Queen, for their part, sent along their congratulations to the couple in a statement to NPR. And during the first year of the pandemic, the two ordered a banana split to go. Another year, when Brad's job took him to Dubai, Susan went to Dairy Queen by herself - taking a single bite and putting the rest in the freezer for when he returned home a few days later. When Brad was in Montreal for work, the two visited Dairy Queens in their respective cities and ate the dessert over the phone. The two later married and moved to Toronto, and their tradition continued. Even then, the two could not foresee how meaningful the tradition would become.īrad and Susan Wall Brad and Susan met during college at a summer concert in Ottawa, Canada. But by the next year, they were in a relationship, and shared a split to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the first night they met. Brad was the only one who took her up on the offer.Īt the time, neither Brad nor Susan meant for the gesture to be romantic. (He would later become an audio visual technician.)Īt the end of the night, Brad, Susan and their friends made a pit stop to Dairy Queen, where Susan ordered a banana split for the table to share. Brad, who was 19, and Susan, who was 20, found themselves in the same friend group while attending a concert at the annual Central Canada Exhibition.īrad quickly took notice of Susan's bubbly personality she was intrigued by his admiration of the concert's sound and lighting equipment. "No matter how much we've grown and changed over the years, this brings back that fresh puppy love we had way back when," Susan, an event manager in Toronto, told NPR. For Brad and Susan Wall, a banana split from Dairy Queen is their version of a time machine.