A chocolate chip ice cream cone from Brickley's.
Summer hasn’t officially started, but as far as I’m concerned, summer starts the first day that I go to the beach, which happened to be today. We drove to Scarborough Beach to find a nearly empty parking lot and to buy our season parking pass before the rate hike. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a spot in the first row of the Scarborough lot — apparently that’s what a weekday in early June gets you, along with a bit of wind and icy water. But I still loved it.
Of course, where there is a beach, ice cream can’t be far behind, so on our way back, we stopped at Brickley’s Ice Cream for a couple of homemade ice cream cones — chocolate chip for me and chocolate for Madeline.
Ah, summer in Rhode Island…
Brickley’s Ice Cream
www.brickleys.com
921 Boston Neck Road
Narragansett, RI
322 Main Street
South Kingstown, RI
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