Here come the New Britain Bees!
Last night Maureen and I spent the evening with her cousins in New Britain to see a New Britain Bees minor league baseball game. No game is complete without a variety of baseball treats such as hot dogs, cheeseburgers, popcorn, peanuts, pretzels, beer and ice cream. Only one ice cream option is available at the Bees Stadium, Dippin Dots Ice Cream. Believe it or not Dippin Dots was founded in Paducah, Kentucky and I am pretty sure I visited the original store about 15 years ago.
Dippin Dots is an interesting concoction of a flash-frozen ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen, which actually makes an interesting combination of granular ice cream pellets. There are a number of flavors but our gang was split between chocolate and rainbow. The rainbow was both sweet and tart creating a refreshing flavor on a warm, humid night. The chocolate didn’t really work in pellets form, at least according to my chocolate connoisseur wife Maureen but the boys seemed to devour it.
Unfortunately the Bees lost the game but a good time was had by all and it was fun to hang out with Maureen’s cousin Kim and Maureen’s younger cousins who are all unique in their own ways. We had the best seats in the house…right behind home plate with the scouts. Hunter is a true-blue baseball fanatic (good boy) and a quiet student of the game. Kaylyn is bright and observant of everything going on around her and Anthony is introspective and full of energy. And then there is Jordan…no words can describe Jordy but he is a cute, intelligent lad with a big heart. Thanks for humoring me guys and going to a game. Next year we’ll do it again.
Next up West Haven.
The Connecticut Ice Cream Quest 
Your a good man Charlie Brown
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