I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

I took a little trip to London this past weekend and I saw and did a lot of amazing things, and I do promise to blog about those experiences, there is one place that we visited that isn't on any "must visit" tourists lists but still made my top 3 stops. This place, which I highly recommend EVERYONE goes too if they are in London, it an ice cream shop called Creams. This place has one the biggest selections of ice cream and treats I've ever seen. We quite literally spent an hour trying to decide what we wanted. They had creeps, waffles, sundaes, milkshakes, slushies, and warm cookie dough. They even had Easter themes specials. Again, took us an hour to pick out one thing.

However, that wasn't our only problem. Our first issue was dinner. We were hungry and needed food, but we were scared that we would fill up on

dinner and not have room for ice cream. So, after debating on where to eat we decided that since the risk of filling up on dinner was too great, we would eat ice cream first then get dinner. So that is exactly what we did.

When we got to the shop, I couldn't decide between two sundaes - chocolate strawberry and black cherry Oreo. Both looked so good; however, it was another easy solution. Both sundaes were on the special menu and were in a smaller cup AND they were only 3 pounds. Soooooo I ordered both! And omg they were both delicious. I 100% made the right choice. After our ice cream we came to the realization that we were too full for dinner, so we pull every elementary schooler's dream and had ice cream for dinner.

Creams was SO good in fact that we decided to go back the next night so we could try something new.
On this night, I got the cookie dough dish which was warm cookie dough with chocolate syrup and ice cream on it. This was also an amazing treat. I think my overall favorite was the chocolate strawberry sundae. The cookie dough was too chocolaty and gave me a headache.

My friends and I had such a good time, it reminded me of a poem written by William Yeats titled A Drinking Song. This poem celebrates the joys of friendship and shared moments. The main center of this poem centers on love and drinking, they symbolize enjoyment and shared joy.

"Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That's all we shall know for truth,

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and I sigh."

No, if you switch the word "wine" and "glass" to "ice cream" and "spoon", then it's a perfect representation of how we all felt eating that delicious ice cream.

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