Day 1 of the 28th annual Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl was a lovely day in the low 70s, which made eating ice cream the leisure activity it was meant to be - no racing of melting ice cream today!
The entrance to the fenced-in ice cream wonderland on the Boston City Hall Plaza was quite notably a large ice cream cone with a huge cherry on top - false advertising claimed my ice cream buddy, since there were no whole cherries on site. Volunteers armed with stamps to mark your hand and money to make change were plentiful, so gaining entrance was no hassle. Pick up a spoon and you're ready to go!
After getting a load of the lay of the land, we headed off to some of the further off tents, with their hopefully shorter lines, and began enjoying our ice cream. The only station I completely ignored was Breyers, and not because I don't like them, but because I already had a couple of gallons of their ice cream at home waiting for me.
Trash barrels were conveniently placed about, both for cups and for spoons. A stage was set up in the back where we were serenaded with the lyrics of "American Pie" as we observed little children jump about with red balloons firmly tied, while some early bird elemetary aged children played with their freebie rubber FedEx yo-yos off to the side.
A water station was handily placed by the stage, while a FedEx truck stood sentry over a table where you could pick up some super-useful individually wrapped Purell Sanitizing Hand Wipes, and these darling tiny FedEx "Small Box" (with mints inside?) just perfect for a Barbie doll to ship an imaginary package. If you want, you could also take a guess at how many spoons were housed in a clear plastic box.
I must have tasted at least 18 flavors before I realized my time was up and I had to head back in to work. Not bad for $8, eh?
Bye bye Miss American Pie... enjoying a la mode was a nice break for the day!
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