Pa-sickie!

If I am ever committed to an asylum for depression or lunacy or both, please tell the doctors that this video, looped and projected onto a white wall, is crucial to my recovery.

Speaking of popsicles, L. and I have been eating our way through the ice cream freezer at our friendly neighbourhood Japanese grocery store. So far, we've had:

1. Chocolate bars
   
2. Milk tea bars
3. Mikan (tangerine) bars with real fruit pulp
4. Peach soda bars
5. Calpis bars

Yesterday, we got some shaved ice bars which surprisingly lived up to the picture on the box. Within the lemon flavoured ice layer was a creamy vanilla center and... crunchy shaved ice. I initially thought we had bought a batch with freezer burn before realizing that the Japanese manufacturer actually delivered on their promise to give us shaved ice in a bar. That is cutting edge popsicle technology there, my friends!