Lugia's

It's open! Already! Drew tells me about how a friend of his just went to the ice cream place near our house. This year they have a super king sized ice cream cone that you can order. I cannot imagine how anyone could eat one. How would you keep it on the cone? There must be over a half gallon of frozen delight. Even the kiddie cones are too much for me to eat at one sitting.

Lugia's is a small restaurant that deals in soft ice cream in the summer months. Its our favorite soft ice cream store in the area. The cones are filled with wonderful smooshy creamy marshmellowy delight in several flavors beyond the basics. Besides the soft ice cream, they offer a bazillion flavors of regular ice cream and all sorts of ice cream concoctions. I've never actually ordered a hamburg or hot dog, but they smell great cooking when you are in line for the ice cream.

The squatty white building is surrounded by spacious lawns dotted with benches and picnic tables and shaded by old oak trees and such. People love to hang out and chat - a sort of neighborhood watering hole. On hot days, the lines are ten abreast all the way to the road. Parking has been expanded to the far side of the corner plaza near the pool store and clear around the back.

I thought it would be nice if both boys and I went together to kick off the season, but our schedules are out of sync. Drew and I go first. I order the smallest size of soft chocolate, he get a small vanilla with multi colored sprinkles. We lick happily together, letting the sweet goodness slide slowly down our throats and into our waiting bellies. Soooo good.

Kiel and I go later, and I get my usual while he gets a small vanilla with blue goo outlining the ridges of the mounds of cream. Ummmm-mmmmm. The cool goodness practically jumps into our mouths. Hey - I may have stumbled across a decent plan for getting ice cream. If I take each boy separately, I get to go twice! Uh-oh. That could be trouble. Still, it is Lugia's . . .