Ambrose and I went to Pretty Kitty, the new organic ice creams shop in the U-District.  It was a really small, colorful shop and lucky for us there wasn’t a line around the block like every time I try to go to Molly Moon’s in Wallingford. 

They had some unique flavors inluding Horchata (a mexican chocolate), Ube (a southeast asian sweet potato), Mango Spice and Fruit Loops!  It TOTALLY tasted like Fruit Loops too!  I had the Birthday Cake and it had real lemon cake chunks in it – so tasty!  Ambrose had the Mint Chocolate Chip which you can’t really go wrong with.  So, along with their wacky flavors, they have normal ones too which makes me happy because I’m only brave enough to taste, not eat a whole cone of something non normal ice creamy.  The other rockin’ part was that the cones were all waffle cones!  So, even if you want a small size, you get a mini waffle cone instead of those crappy sugar cones that taste like cardboard.  AND!  Yes, it gets better.  Despite being “organic” ice creams, the prices were not organic prices at all!  They were very reasonable in fact.  $3 for our scoop + waffle cone.

I also loved that the people working there were super friendly and gave us as many tastes as we asked.  And they didn’t seem annoyed with all my stupid “What’s that?  How about that?” questions either.  As we were leaving I asked, “Why Pretty Kitty?”  Lucky us, one of those people behind the counter was Gabriel, the owner.  You could tell he was really excited about his new venture. The story goes he used to be a promoter or event planner and liked the “cool kat” jazzy theme and used to go by cool kitty or something like that.  Somehow, Pretty Kitty evolved and stuck.  I like it, if for no other reason it’s fun to say you’re going to get ice creams from the Kitty store!