Last week was Farr Candy Company and Bonneville County's 100th birthday celebration. The whole city went downtown to help Farr's beat the world record for the most scoops of ice cream scooped in one hour. So Lori, Kurt, Brooklyn, Sky, Heidi, Autumn and I all went to help eat the ice cream. The record to beat was 3,000 and they definitely did that with 6,284 scoops!
Panorama of the downtown streets blocked off, and the line of people waiting for ice cream snaked all around it.
The group waiting for the hour to begin so we could get our scoop. Kurt and Sky work downtown so Kurt walked over as soon as he got off and got us a really good spot in line.
One of the old ice cream trucks owned by Farr's.
I don't know who was flown in by the helicopter, but they landed in the middle of the blocked off streets and a guy got out and gave a folded up American flag to the color guard that paraded around.
Everyone who was going to get ice cream had to get their hand stamped with a cute little ice cream cone stamp. Even Brooklyn and Autumn got their hands stamped.
I got everyone together for a group picture in front of the old Bonneville Hotel once we got our ice cream.
Lori got mint chocolate chip.
Kurt did too.
Sky got his and Autumn's cookies and cream. Heidi got huckleberry.
Autumn got a couple tastes.
Brooklyn sucked down a whole ice cream cone all by herself. She would scream if her dad tried to help her out by licking up the drips. She got all sticky and messy.
I got huckleberry. It was really good!
The Farr family collects a bunch of different vehicles. Classic cars and trucks, new cars and trucks, unusual cars and trucks. Here is me in front of a honest-to-goodness DeLorean. Only about 6,500 still exist today from the 9,000 built.
Here is a link to a short newscast about the
ice cream celebration.
