hot fudge
We spent the morning in the pool. After a brief altercation over who gets which end of the pool and what is an ‘allowable defense’ of the particular pool end they settled into playing nicely (when you are in Florida threats of not going to parks work quite well). After the pool we headed off to find an outlet which stocked Crocs.
There is a far superior selection for Crocs in the US, our kids wear them all the time so we plan to stock up on them here. Whilst at this premium outlet mall, because we only do ‘premium outlets’, we stopped at the ice cream and fudge parlor, to watch & listen to them make up a batch of fudge.
outlets Florida
At the ice Cream and fudge parlor
The guy was quite entertaining with bucket-loads of really corny jokes (always a plus in my book), and when he asked “who here has a licking license to lick this spoon?”, we heard IrishDoom yell “I do” at the top of his voice. He got called up and got the drop of hot fudge off the spoon, which he seemed quite pleased about. The boys had an ice cream and some fully set fudge. After lunch we headed over to an actual mall (rather than outlets). It was much bigger than Dundrum (Ireland) or Chadstone (Australia) and had loads of specialty shops, like M&M World where they only sell M&Ms (or associated merchandise).
more M&Ms than you can shake a stick at
The kids saw the sign for this and headed straight there. It had that willy wonka chocolate factory feel to it, and the M&Ms for sale were all different flavours, like peanut butter, orange choc, or snozzberry (ok there was no snozzberry but there was a load!). We bought a pound of M&Ms for $14, with a wide variety of flavours all hand-picked. I sometimes wonder how the writers of Sponge Bob come up with so much original material, but then I come here and see the stuff you can get; on the plane from LA the inflight magazine had a product to stop aggressive dogs coming at you by emitting a high frequency burst. It was called “Dog Away” or the high-end version “Dog Dayzer”. Then there are the shops like “M&M world”, I’m keeping an eye out for “Chewing Gum Universe” but haven’t found it yet.
I was really thirsty but this shop was no use