Lil’ Caboose Ice Cream, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod
Kream ‘n Kone is also well known for their ice cream. We had dinner there and afterwards were so stuffed we couldn’t get ice cream. I don’t know why we thought that if we drove down the road for 5 minutes to South Yarmouth then we’d be hungry [...]

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Caprese Salad, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod

Joe, Jessica, Jane :: South Yarmouth, Cape Cod
Last week was Joe, Jessica’s dad’s birthday. This week he and Jessica’s mom, Jane, are visiting on the Cape, so one night we invited them to our house for dinner. Jess, Julie and I served a homemade cucumber, yogurt, dill dip with vegetables, [...]

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On the walk from the train home tonight I ran into Laura on her bike and stopped to talk to her for a minute. When I continued on walking, on the corner of Roscoe and Wolcott, there was a guy with a cart and an umbrella giving out free cups of ice cream.

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Stephanie at Suckers Candy, Roscoe Village, Chicago
This weekend my 10-year-old niece, Stephanie, is visiting from Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee. I don’t think she’s ever stayed with me for a weekend… unless it was when she was a baby and I lived in Wisconsin. Yesterday I took off work early and we mostly just [...]

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Future Oberweis, Wicker Park, Chicago
About a year or so ago Kristin took me to Oberweis for the first time but when we got there it was closed down. And not just for the day, for good. As far as I know, that was the last Oberweis in the city. But now there are plans to [...]

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