Nothing gets past this guy

Last night when I picked the kids up from Cindy's house, Liam got into the car and immediately started talking about wanting to go to the store. What store? I asked. The store that's this way, he said. The thing is, Cindy lives in a subdivision - no stores in sight. I said, Liam, there are no stores here - these are all houses. He said, there's a store this way, with ice cream and a cherry on top, maybe we can go to the store and get some ice cream.

So I told him he was ridiculous, and we went home. He did get me thinking that ice cream after dinner was a good idea though; it's swelteringly hot here, after all...

Then Chad came home, and we compared notes, and suddenly everything made sense. As it turns out, there is a new ice cream shop in town, and it's on the route to Cindy's house. (No, I didn't see it driving home, though I should have). It is, in fact, a booth set up in a strip mall parking lot - a booth shaped like an ice cream cone, indeed with a cherry on top. Liam spotted it the day it went in and knew exactly what that business was all about. I must have had my blinders on.

So after dinner, we set out on a walk for some ice cream, only when we got there, after our long hot walk, we saw the dreaded, small-print signs hanging in the windows: opening soon... (Who puts in an ice cream store when the summer is already half over and then doesn't even open for business right away? But I digress.)

Luckily, we had to pass Dairy Queen to get to the ice cream cone ice cream store, and so we stopped in on our way back. Liam got a DQ sandwich, which he loved, and Chad and I split an Oreo Brownie Earthquake, which was really not all that good. Give me a good old fashioned scoop of Cookies n Cream or Bordeaux Cherry any day. Mallory had a few tastes of both. The menu was up at the ice cream cone ice cream store (I need to find out the real name of it!) and it looked good - limited to soft serve, but with all kinds of mix-ins. We will definitely check it out one day... but only after we know for sure that it's open for business!