Ice Cream Ride

Last Sunday we did a little ice cream bike ride with various friends and associates to one of our favorite nearby ice creameries. Featuring unique flavors such as olive oil and lavender, it's a fun place to go even just for the chance to test out some of these interesting ice cream tastes. The bike ride was beautiful - mostly along a bike trail with green and yellow fields of mustard along the side. All around us other people were enjoying the afternoon on all kinds of bikes, or on foot, or as we saw one guy doing, on a motorized kid-style scooter. I wasn't so sure about the last option, but it was nice to see everyone out and about. 


Cassidy was in her element at our ice cream stop, since she had many interested people to lavish her with attention.

I love all her little expressions as she goes stomping around in her little mushroom boots (she has these little brown boots decorated with red and white mushrooms in the super mario style...), doing her funny waddle. Checking out the world and demanding that the world check her out too.


Really, a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Felt kind of European (as I imagine it at least), to be able to bike to the next town for ice cream and playing in the park and then back home for dinner.


We even took it one step further by stopping for dinner downtown on our way home, something we never do. But, we realized, if you like having local businesses then you'd better be supporting them. We stopped at our favorite Chinese place, unsure of how Cassidy would take to it, but turned out - she loved it! Veggie dumplings were a bit hit, along with big handfuls of rice, bits of mango from a chicken and mango dish, and some tofu and veggie soup. She also enjoyed the fact that the restaurant was right next to a fountain, which she got to splash her hands in prior to the meal.

All in all, discovering many wonderful ways to spend a Sunday!