The Love of my Life

How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways. 

1. You are sweet.

2. You make me happy.

3. You comfort me when I am blue.

4. I’ll never get sick of you.

5. You’re a cheap date.  I like it.

6. You just show up when I don’t expect it and brighten my day. 

There are a million more, but I’ll just say it.  Gelato, I love you.

Thursday was quite possible the best school-sponsored activity I have ever experienced.  A gelato crawl.  We hit two gelato stands and a Italian coffee shop in our march around the city.  And the best part?  Completely free.  Or “included” as my mother would say. 

The first place we went to had 125 choices.  125!  We were all completely overwhelmed!  I wanted to eat them all.  Just sit there and eat till I puked and then eat some more.  I ended up getting a 3 scoop dish with coconut, banana, and chocolate gelato.  Pretty darn good.  The only weird thing was that You could feel the texture of the fruit in the gelato and the mushy banana was weird with the flaky coconut, but I won’t complain.  It’s called Della Palma if anyone wants to fly over and try it out.

From there we went to Obama’s fave place and it is literally the best gelato I have had or, I’m convinced, will ever have in my life.  I got dark chocolate and pistachio gelato on a chocolate dipped cone.  Yummmm.  The waiters were a little crabby, but hey, they control the gelato so I’ll put up with it. 

We had to walk around for a good half hour to get rid of the disgustingly full feeling, but it was totally worth it.  We’re all still gushing over that gelato.  So much so that we’ll be heading out in approximately 2 hours to get some more.   I wonder what kind I’ll get this time?

UPDATE:  dark chocolate and pistachio gelato is definitely the best combination ever.