A Pretty, Residential Day

Day 16

The day after our adventure in Oakland, Tobe and I decided to venture out into the surrounding suburbs of San Francisco. My family lived in the Bay Area from 1980 to 1990 and Toby wanted to see where we lived, where I was born, where we used to chill, etc, etc.

Toby also wanted to take on a certain challenge -- The Kitchen Sink at the San Francisco Creamery.

A tub and a half of ice cream, three bananas, 8 servings of toppings, and mounds of whipped cream. If a person dominates the Kitchen Sink in less than 30 minutes, he or she gets free ice cream for a year. WOAH.

This trip to the San Francisco Creamery was a recon. mission. Toby does not want to take on the challenge without an audience, and our friends were not available to come that particular afternoon.

Toby has felt extremely confident about pounding the Kitchen Sink since watching a T.V. special about the San Francisco Creamery on the Food Network in April.

How was his confidence faring after watching four Kitchen Sinks made and served in person??

"It's a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be."

I agree. No picture can quite capture the enormity of the mass of creamy goodness that is the Kitchen Sink.

However, he's still planning to take the plunge. I admire his courage. It is a lot of ice cream -- take the King's Castle and double it (a Kuhni Family feat -- Pittsburgh, PA 1998).

While we were there, we enjoyed an extremely yummy lunch (Chicken Burger -- awesome), and some ice cream.

Toby got the extreme Banana Split.

And I got a small peach-mango sorbet.

(Can you believe this is a small???? Toby had to pound 3/4 of it -- he didn't mind. Training).

We heartily enjoyed ourselves. It is one of our new favorite places. Hands down.

We've decided if we ever come back to the Bay Area, Walnut Creek is the place to be.

Stay tuned for the results of the Toby's Kitchen Sink extravaganza.