Melty

{yummy chocolate ice cream from the lovely brown-eyed baker}

One huge thing I am looking forward to on our trip back to America next month? Hard ice cream. On a sugar cone. From an ice cream shop.

Ireland doesn’t really have ice cream shops. They have convenience stores that sell one kind of ice cream cone. There’s usually a big plastic ice cream cone out front. And inside, you can get a ’99’: soft, vanilla ice cream on a wafer cone with a chocolate flake stick stuck into it. {looks like this}

Creamier than soft ice cream in America, but still not hard ice cream. No debating which or a million flavours to pick, no sprinkles or jimmies to dip in. And no sitting in the warm summer night while you lick faster and faster to keep it from dripping all over your fingers.

And with that, my mouth is watering for a hard ice cream cone. Or one every day we’re back in Maine. It’s vacation, so I can do that, right?