Ice Cream Stand
| Ice Cream Stand | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Location |
| Address | Next to the museum |
| Open Hours | 1pm to 5pm during Summer |
| Closed | Wednesday; Rainy days |
| Residents | Alex |
The Ice Cream Stand is a wooden counter in the middle of Pelican Town that only trades in Summer. Alex runs it, and he runs it on his own terms: nothing on Wednesdays, nothing in the rain, and only for four hours in the afternoon. One line is sold, Ice Cream, and through a first Summer that counter is usually the only way to get hold of any, because the recipe arrives later and through friendship rather than through a shop. Haley walks over most afternoons and stays until closing, so the path in front of the stand is the easiest place in Summer to find her. Marrying Alex shuts the stand for good.
Area
There is no door and no interior. The stand is an open-air counter on the eastern side of Pelican Town, within sight of the bridge that leads across to the Blacksmith and the Museum, and all the business happens from the path in front of it.
Alex walks up from the beach at noon and stays behind the counter until five, but the till does not open until one. That hour catches people out. Alex is standing right there, plainly at work, and still will not sell anything. Outside Summer nobody staffs it at all, and the counter is simply part of the scenery.
Shops
Ice Cream is the whole menu, at 250 gold a scoop. That buys a generous slice of energy and a useful amount of health in one item, which is why a scoop or two in the bag is a sensible thing to take into the mines on a Summer morning. The Oasis out in the Calico Desert sells the same thing slightly cheaper on Sundays and keeps doing so all year, so the stand's advantage is being a two-minute walk from the town square rather than a bus ride away.
Jodi posts the recipe once friendship with her reaches seven hearts, and from then on one Milk and one Sugar make a scoop in an upgraded farmhouse kitchen. A farmer with a Cow in the barn and Sugar on hand never needs to queue at the counter again, which leaves the stand as mostly a first-year convenience and a pleasant bit of Summer scenery after that.
Residents
Alex is the stand's only member of staff, and the job is seasonal for him as much as for the shop: the rest of the year he trains at home or in the men's locker room. On Wednesdays he spends the afternoon at Haley and Emily's house instead, and wet weather keeps him indoors, which is exactly why those two conditions close the shop.
Haley arrives at about half past one and settles in beside the counter for the afternoon. The two of them are old friends, and her Summer routine is built around his shift. After Alex marries into the farm he stops serving, though Haley carries on taking her afternoon walk into town.
Notes
There is a well-known way around the opening hours. Parking a horse in the right spot at the back of the stand, when nobody is serving, leaves the counter usable at any hour of the day, and it still only works during Summer.
All Shops
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Open Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Abandoned House | 
|
All Day |
| Adventurer's Guild | 
|
2:00pm to 2:00am |
| Blacksmith | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm |
| Bookseller | 
|
- |
| Carpenter's Shop | 
|
9:00am to 5:00pm |
| Casino | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Desert Trader | 
|
Always |
| Fish Shop | 
|
9am to 5pm |
| Giant Stump | 
|
- |
| Harvey's Clinic | 
|
9:00am to 3:00pm |
| Ice Cream Stand | 
|
1pm to 5pm during Summer |
| Island Trader | 
|
Always |
| JojaMart | 
|
9:00am to 11:00pm |
| Marnie's Ranch | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm; (Building open 9am to 6pm) |
| Oasis | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Pierre's General Store | 
|
Shop: 9am to 5pm; Building: 9am to 9pm |
| Qi's Walnut Room | 
|
Always |
| The Stardrop Saloon | 
|
12:00pm to 12:00am |
| Traveling Cart | 
|
6:00am to 8:00pm Friday and Sunday; 5:00pm to 2:00am during Night Market; 12:00pm to 2:00am during Desert Festival |
| Volcano Dungeon | - | - |
| Wizard's Tower | 
|
6:00am to 11:00pm |