We have decided that part of our "No Big Vacation" summer will be "Firsts".  That is doing things together for the first time; things we have never done before, together.  So, this is the first of the firsts.

We made homemade ice cream for the first time!  When I bought an ice cream freezer, a year ago, I bought a hand cranked one.  I figured if we were going to make ice cream then we needed to work for it.  When I told several people about it they said that would be a lot of work.  It kind of put a damper on the ice cream making.  Just the other day Greg said "Let's make ice cream."  It wasn't hard work at all.  It only took 20 minutes and we had fun talking about when we used to make ice cream as kids. 
People, I guess, are so use to electric everything, that any little bit of exursion is "hard work".
Now, I need to get to thinking about what we will do next weekend for the first time.