As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel icecreamcone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.
As was the case that night, my father would often buy me an icecreamcone at a nearby custard stand on Okalahoma Avenue as a gratuity for my patience while I waited in the car and he shopped.
Instead of the fail whale Thursday, some people who tried to log onto Twitter's website saw what looked to be a cartoon duo of an inch worm and a soft-serve ice-cream cone.
Locals and visitors come to see what food has been turned into the icecream of the day, emerging from the parlour to take in the tiny, mountainous town of Lares, cone or cup in hand.