Monday - day 3

First we dropped off the Penske van. While 16' was annoyingly big, it was pretty comfortable to drive/ride in. It was across the street from Puritan ice cream. On Saturday night I wanted to order their black raspberry chocolate chip ice cream at Doyles but they were out. So I really wanted to try it but the shop wasn't open yet.

We headed out to DD for breakfast. At the corner we saw two cops, and were curious about all the blocked roads the day before, so I asked if anything had happened - was there a parade? The cop replied, "Yes, something had happened"...and took a long dramatic pause before continuing, "five people were shot."

Apparently it's gang violence, they don't target random people, just other gangs, it was a planned reprisal from last week's shooting (?), and the cops were out in force trying to prevent it, because there was a big Dominican festival on Sunday, but it happened anyways. We talked to the cops for a while and while some of it wasn't great to learn, overall I do feel better about my neighborhood. That might sound counterintuitive, but at least I know what my neighborhood is like, which is better than an unknown, and the cops were pretty nice.

Time for even more shopping - this time of the curtains, couch cover, pillows, cleaning supplies variety. Surprisingly, all together it was even more expensive than the IKEA trip. Also, a few more causualities- I've now run my toe into an IKEA cart and ripped part of the nail off, cut myself with scissors, and have a scrape and a bruise from a box at Target falling and hitting my leg.

I dropped my mom at the airport - I have now gotten to/from the airport without getting lost TWICE!!

I've been craving ice cream all day so I got it with Dan in Back Bay late at night at Emack & Bolios. They had a "purple cow" which was black raspberry with bits of blueberry and white and chocolate chips = delicious!