Window Shopping and Ice Cream

Today I went with some friends to the Third Street Promenade to get lunch and do some window shopping.  I hardly go there since traffic and parking is insane as it’s right next to the Santa Monica Pier.  I think it’s been two years since I was last there.  But I love the Penzey’s Spices store and needed to get a few things.  We had some Mexican for lunch and they just walked around window shopping.  I really just wanted to get out and get some exercise which was nice and I think worked well.  Afterward I had a craving for a Carvel ice cream cake.  The kind that has a layer of vanilla and chocolate separated by a cookie layer.  I haven’t had one of those in many years. They sell them at the grocery store but only in large sheets and we only needed a serving.  My friend, being the enabler that she is, stopped by an actual Carvel store that was near her place and we got a small round cake to split.  The store had a few different sizes so we just go the smallest one, which I think was a six inch.  It’s really servings for four so we didn’t finish it but it was a nice treat and so yummy.