Ice Cream!

Jonathan had work at the crack of dawn (yea, tax-free weekend) so Elena, Joseph and I rode the bus downtown for the ice cream festival. Elena's bunny, Penelope, came with us, and Elena said Penelope needed her rain coat, which I thought was rather prudent, since the weather was still looking a bit iffy, at that point. Once we got there, there was ice cream from Amy's, Ben & Jerry's, Dippin' Dots, Austin Scoops (Gelato), Nada Moo (vegan) and a few others that I didn't catch the names to. Plus, there was BBQ, carnival food, some carnival rides (mostly boucy castle things, but a few hand-powered centrifugal rides), a hair staion where you could get your hair styled or even painted, a petting zoo, a relay race, popsicle-stick art, and a live band under a big tent. We even saw an ice cream princess.


We brought our own snacks, but you have to get ice cream when you go to an ice cream festival. Elena asked for cookies-flavor cow ice cream with candies and we all shared it. I could tell it was made with mexican vanilla and it was good.



This is the pile of spare popsicle sticks, waiting to be claimed for art. There were about 5 little kids playing in the sticks at any given moment.



And you could build stuff. There was a contest, too, but it was a bit out of our league.


We stopped to say hi to two of the pony-ride ponies that were on break.


After all the fun, we decided to get off at Whole Foods and cruise for samples. They were having some kind of skateboard party in their parking lot, so there were all sorts of extra samples floating around. The best was a lavender-flavored goat milk ice cream. Very tasty. Then, trying to catch the bus back home, it took so long for our bus to come (we must have just missed it) that we decided to take a different bus to Daddy's picture store and surprise him, instead. Joseph fell asleep in the stroller while waiting for the bus (folded in half, it was very cute), and Elena napped with Penelope on the bus.