Hey everyone! I've made it back to college and getting ready to start my science classes. Right before I left ( actually the morning before I left) I got tickets to the Ice Cream Museum. If you are unfamiliar with it, the museum is a pop-up that is only open for about a month. I was lucky enough to get tickets when they posted about adding more tickets on instagram as the tickets sold out before the museum even opened. The first ice cream that was handed to us was from Chinatown Ice Cream Factory as we walked through the doors. One of the bad parts of this rather small museum was you could only go forward and not backtrack. We ate our ice cream in the first room and continued to the cone portion. The edible bubble blower gave us each an inflatable balloon on a straw. They were not tasty. At all. It was like a sugar syrup filled with helium.
How cute are these cone walls? You can tell that this museum was built for photo taking, as everything followed a color scheme and was very bright and colorful. The next part was the building of a record sundae- each person who enters the museum gets to add a scoop to this wall chalice. It wasn't very pretty, and it was fake ice cream, so it didn't come out of the scoop easy and had a very dry texture. We went into the chocolate room/ lounge, which was basically a dark room with some cocoa beans on the floor. There was free Dove chocolates in chocolate drip buckets and a giant brown bean bag on the floor. That was pretty much the only thing in that section. Next was the famous sprinkle pool that was jammed packed. There was so many people, it was very hard to get a decent photo, let alone enjoy the exhibit.
These are some of the better photos that came out. It was really uncomfortable to walk in and not very deep. You can see above that it was pretty full and hard to move around in. This area also had a small shelf with candy on it, which was in jars and not individually wrapped. It seemed a little unsanitary as we watched people stick their hands in and down the sugary sweets. We opted out of this candy selection after seeing this. Next, we were given berries to change our sour taste buds to sweet. I waited patiently for a cone to pop out of the wall ( ice cream scoopers were behind a wall and stick their hands out to place cones in holders). The pink swirled cone was actually vanilla, and lemon did taste more lemonade like when eating it due to the berry. It looked nice, but it wasn't anything new or different.
We ended our ice cream trip with the ice cream sandwich swing and scooper sea saw. We knew when we were going it was a picture trap, so we actually really enjoyed ourselves. We all love food ( and took a pit stop in Chelsea Market after) and enjoyed our last day together. Ice cream is always good!
Thank you all for reading! See you soon!
