There are 50 gazillion places to get ice cream in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. You know your way around if you skip all the bright lights and fancy sprinkles and head directly for Royal Treat 1 block south of Rehoboth Avenue.

My mom and I piled her into the Big Red Wagon and walked through heavy Saturday evening crowds to get there. Just past the avenue, the crowds thinned. Except for the line snaking its way out of Royal Treat.

Another piece of local Rehoboth knowledge: Royal Treat is smart and has 6 professional ice-cream slingers behind the counter. That line moves Fast. Within 3 minutes she had a big scoop of Rainbow ice cream and even bigger eyes.

We sat outside in the fading light and let her try our sherbet and peppermint stick in quick rotation with hers. Then we walked back home along the boardwalk. Passing the bandstand on the avenue, the band sounded like P-funk but looked like The Allman Brothers. No one I was with understood how very strange that was.

It is harder for a kid to fall asleep in a big red wagon, while holding an ice cream cone than in a stroller. It was a close call though.