The World’s Most Expensive Pint of Ice Cream

2009-04-10

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Besides taking in the beautiful scenery (of which there was much) at Guadalupe and Big Bend National Parks, we really enjoyed being able to just be together (most of the time). Each day at Big Bend we took a very, long picnic lunch. One day we went to the western portion of the park and enjoyed a leisurely picnic. I thought it would be fun to make our own ice cream in coffee cans using a recipe I had found online. This was a lot of fun. I gotta admit it wasn’t all that cost effective since I first had to buy the cans of coffee, just for the cans, but we had a great time. (Yes, $9 in sunk costs right there… if I had been at home I am sure I could have gotten an empty can from a friend or something, but we had no spare room in our suitcases for empty coffee cans). The kids enjoyed rolling the can back and forth and then Scott and I took turns kicking it up and back across a field to really get it working. I was so happy it worked! (We would have had a very disappointed circus crew if it didn’t work)!