Nostalgia for Summer: Viterbo by Gelateria

Gelataria Antica
The first gelataria I went to here in Viterbo, and the first one I took the gang to the day they arrived.  Daniel's favorite.   Super flavors.  At Porta della Verita.  A five minute walk from our apartment which I can turn into thirty when I take a wrong turn.   (Not kidding.)  Also on possible route home from kids' school.  How many days will they stop by on way home if they are walking home themselves?...only gelateria open tonight at 9pm since it's gotten colder, and summer is over.


Cream Italy
In Medieval quarter of town (= easiest place to get turned around).  Daniel claims that he got smaller scoops than the rest of us.  We've gone back to test his theory and to see if we can get him bigger scoops.

Polozzi
A Mary find: They put chocolate in the cone before the gelato.  Then, when you get to your cone, the chocolate has hardened, and the cone has become a sort of cookie.

one up the street from us -- I can't figure out the name
When it's approaching 9pm and too late to motivate the adults and the gelato intake is at a negative for the day, the kids say, "But we can go right up the street!"  We parents give in, and up the thirty yards they go.  Smaller scoops if they get an employee-in-training; bigger scoops if not.

Gelateria Gelart at Piazza del Erbe
Great seating area outside and open late.  Also across from Tiger, a store the kids frequent for a massager, slime (which I am now officially banning), hair scratcher, caramel sticks.


Polozzo
Not a chain to be confused with Polozzi in Piazza Plebiscito (which the locals call Piazza Commune).  This one is special because it's a gelataria and pasticceria in one.  On Sunday afternoon, half of us got gelato and half of us got cannolli...and then Daniel went back in and got everyone more cannoli and pastries.  We sat on benches and tried everything, walked to the park across the street, then back home, where Daniel's sweet potato pie awaited us for dinner.  When we arrived home, I tried to get the internet working (it goes out every three days or so), Daniel worked on dinner, the kids discussed which movie they'd watch (big news last week: we signed up for Netflix...first month free...).  We agreed on Back to the Future, classic '80s.  The next day as we ate lunch Mary said, "You know, we didn't eat dinner last night."  Gelato, cannoli, pastries, a movie.  She was right: we forgot to sit down and eat dinner.