Get the door, it's ice cream!

Believe it or not, some of the most gourmet meals I've ever had in my life were at the homeless shelter. It was located near the ocean/fisheries so we would often get donations of shrimp, tuna, other fish. Many of the guests were quite talented in the kitchen and would practically complete to get the title of best cook. Of course we benefited greatly from this!
There was a period of time where every Sunday afternoon a guest named John and I would take over the kitchen and cook all day~while listening to Mahalia Jackson and other gospel tunes. He would make the main dishes and I would bake a dessert. Just imagine the smells of creamy garlic sauce with shrimp, fresh pasta, baked apple pie... yum. I remember how excited John was when the garlic sauce came out just right- "UMM!! This sauce is perfect!" he exclaimed. That night we all sat down to an amazing meal of the garlic shrimp, some other seafood, and other delicious things I can't remember. But I do recall that I had made an apple pie for dessert. Now, keep in mind that this was a Christian ministry and prayer was definitely at the center of life there. We thanked Him before every meal and talked about Him too. As the meal was wrapping up, we talked about the pie and a guest commented that some vanilla ice cream sure would be good with it. But we didn't have any........... I'm not kidding, not even five minutes later as I was pulling the pie out of the oven, the doorbell rang and a woman stood there with a half gallon of Breyers vanilla ice cream! We were ecstatic and completely overreacted in our thanking her. She heard us shout, "it even has the little vanilla bean flakes in it!" Little did she know how timely her donation was! She was probably thinking "those poor people, getting so excited over a little ice cream, the food is probably gross there." Ha Ha. It was simply a perfect ending to a totally gourmet meal and God giving us a little smile.