Shorts weather and a failed mission

First off, I apologize for not having posted in a while. To be honest, not a whole lot has been going on here. However, with Easter Break rapidly approaching, that will most certainly change.

Anyway, a few days ago, my friend Sam and I got a real hankering for some good ole' fashioned ice cream. We'd looked around various shops in our area of Sheffield but hadn't found anything particularly amazing. This led us to an internet search which in turn gave us the address of a quaint dairy farm about 9 miles outside the city. Now as terrific as this would have seemed, getting there proved to be very expensive. Thus, we settled for what we thought was second best: an ice cream parlor that was apparently a 40 minute walk away at the Northeastern side of the city.

Thankfully, the weather today was the best it's ever been here. Temperatures were in the high 40's/low 50's, thus necessitating my use of shorts (finally!). As we trekked up and down Sheffield's hills (we may have seen up to 3 of the 7), we were treated to some wonderful scenery thanks to the presence of the sun and the lack of clouds. At the top of each hill, we had amazing views of the surrounding area and were able to spot many of the landmarks we had only seen up close.

Unfortunately, upon reaching the location given online, we were treated to a bit of a shock; we were basically in the "bad" part of town, far away from anything familiar. And the address of the ice cream parlor led us to a random house. Needless to say, we were rather disappointed. This was only added to when we finally got back into town and went to a coffee shop that served the ice cream typically made at the aforementioned dairy farm. Their version of a chocolate milkshake ended up being a glass of chocolate milk with not enough chocolate.

So lessons learned from today:

1.) Don't go to the northeast side of the city
2.) Milkshakes in England are pretty crappy
3.) Sheffield is a really beautiful city once you get to see it in the light. Thankfully, I brought my camera for this excursion. Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/jbird60/OperationIceCreamFailed?feat=directlink to see pictures.