A Very Sweet Six Months.

My boyfriend, A, and I hit the six month mark Thursday.

And what better way to celebrate than with... dessert, of course!

CREAM (which stands for "Cookies Rule Everything Around Me") has opened several locations recently around the Bay Area and NorCal, including one in Palo Alto a few months ago. Their shtick is: ice cream + cookies. They have ice cream tacos (and, I believe, a "taco tuesday" special), ice cream cookie sundaes, and, best of all, ice cream sandwiches. You pick your cookies (the same, or two different ones) and ice cream, put it together, and voila! Deliciousness. A's sister was nice enough to bring him back one when she went a few months ago, but by the time it got to him, he said the ice cream had made the cookies too cold and crunchy. Obviously, we had to go ourselves and get the cookies while they were hot!

This was the line outside when we got there:

And that was even after it had moved a little. Sheesh. It was like the hottest nightclub in town - buuuuuut it was ice cream and cookies.

I, of course, was having a crisis of faith attempting to decide what types of dessert to get - a half-sandwich? (By the way, A totally shot that down, saying "You'd wait in this line for a HALF sandwich?" and the guy in front of us in line laughed at me.) A cookie sundae? Ice cream with a cookie on the side? Or just the whole ice cream sandwich shebang?

And then, once I decided, okay, let's just go all out and get the full sandwich, there's the question of what kinds of cookies and ice cream to get. You have to consider each of those flavors, and there were many, many delicious-looking flavors of ice cream and cookies.

I ended up with one chocolate chip cookie, one snickerdoodle, and a filling of salted caramel ice cream. NOM. The snickerdoodle cinnamon-sugar flavor melded perfectly with the caramel flavor of the ice cream, and in the true fashion of someone who eats pizza with a fork and other frowned-upon practices, I removed the chocolate chip cookie to savor on its own. A devoured his whole - one peanut butter cookie, one chocolate chip, and mint chip ice cream. I questioned how the mint and peanut butter went together, but he insisted it worked after some initial flavor weirdness.

Here are the his and hers sandwiches (you'll notice that I couldn't help grabbing a chunk of that snickerdoodle even before photographing):

Oh, man. Every bit was delicious, especially the still-warm chocolate chip cookie, and worth every calorie. I will never give up my ridiculous, albeit infrequent, dessert habit, and I will always continue to savor every bite.

So I'm not one to write sappy relationship-y or personal details in a public forum, I prefer that be kept between two people, and I assume that many readers would concur. Y'all don't want to be subjected to that, nor do I regarding others' relationships. But I will say this:

It has been a very sweet six months, indeed.

P.S. Sacramento friends - CREAM now has a Davis location! AND they have gluten-free and vegan cookies, as well as soy, vegan ice cream.