On October 11 my family and I went on a trip to the Ice Cream Museum in San Francisco. I expected it to be like The Color Factory (see my blog post!), but instead, we were given a group of people and we all had to stick together when we moved through the museum.

 

The Ice Cream Museum is a hands-on museum, which means that you can touch almost everything. The first room that we visited had stairs leading down to it and next to the stairs was the complete history of ice cream in a timeline. The timeline told you when ice cream was made, when ice cream cones were invented, etc. We wandered through rooms full of giant gummi bears, cherries and lollipops, and we were given snacks along the way like ice cream, cotton candy, and in one of my favorite rooms with a climbing wall, pop rocks!

 

The best part of the museum is two words… Sprinkle Pool!!!!! The Sprinkle Pool is a large pool filled with sprinkles! Yes, you can swim in it. They have beach balls and pool floaties, and Dash and I buried Dad in sprinkles. Sadly, the sprinkles aren’t real, but we have been finding some in our clothes and shoes for weeks now! As soon as you get out of the Sprinkle Pool, you have to go the “showers,” which are really air blasters so you could blow off all the sprinkles (and attack each other).

If you want some fun and excitement, so online and look up Ice Cream Factory and see if you can get tickets. Where else can you visit a gummi bear forest, an old-fashioned ice cream bar and jump in a sprinkle pool?