Happy Chappy Ice Cream Shop

Ice cream is what I call a good bad life decision. It’s good because it is delicious, but it is bad because (as a lactose intolerant person) it ends up hurting me. And yes there’s frozen yogurt (which I can handle a bit better) and milk free desserts like sorbet, but sometimes a girl just wants a bit of ice cream dagnabbit!
Enter the recently opened (as of April 1 — no foolin), Happy Chappy Ice Cream Shop. This is an ice cream parlour that serves 30 different flavours of Chapman’s hard ice cream. If I’m gonna risk a little pain later for a tasty treat now then Chapman’s is a good way to go.
The ice cream shop is a little difficult to find, but not impossible. From 50^th Street you turn into the parking for Hugh’s Car Wash, but in the lot take an immediate left and go around the side of the north building. Happy Chappy is near the back facing the Panda Hut Express across the way. Yes, it’s a bit of an odd location for an ice cream parlour, but it’s ice cream and I’m not complaining. Personally, I’m just glad it’s somewhere other than in Leduc Common.
The Ice Cream shop is pretty small. It’s a basic walk-​in and order and go kind of deal. There is a bench on the back wall, but there isn’t any room for any tables or chairs. They advertise 30 different flavours, most hard ice cream, but I also saw a few frozen yogurt and sorbet flavours. They’ve got some standards (chocolate, vanilla), but also there are more fun flavors too. I tried the Raspberry Rocky Road, which is a vanilla and raspberry ice cream with chocolate chunks. Yum. The lady working (likely the owner) was very friendly and happy to answer any questions I had.
Despite the hidden location, I hope this ice cream shop does well. Leduc doesn’t always have a place to get hard ice cream, and this fits the bill perfectly. As I was going in I saw a family with five kids leave, so I’m sure it will get busier as the weather (hopefully) gets nicer. They’re open from 2pm to 9pm every day so you can hit your ice cream craving in the afternoon and in the evening as well. It might be a good bad life decision, but I’ll come back here again.